TY - BOOK ID - 85464024 TI - A history of Egypt. PY - 2014 SN - 1107325188 1108065686 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Egypt KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85464024 AB - Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, whose pioneering methods made Near Eastern archaeology a much more systematic and scientific discipline. Many of his other publications are also reissued in this series. Britain's first professor of Egyptology from 1892, Petrie was conscious of the fact that there was no textbook he could recommend to his students. The work of Weidemann was in German and out of date, so Petrie and his collaborators incorporated the latest theories and discoveries in this English-language resource. Volume 5 covers the period of Roman rule from 30 BCE to 642 CE. ER -