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The XXII. Egyptian Royal Dynasty, with Some Remarks on XXVI, and Other Dynasties of the New Kingdom

By Carl Richard Lepsius , William Bell (translator)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780511705847, 9781108017398
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511705847
Google Books ID
bn9NmGDW0w0C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1294717 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
Pages
58\58
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Carl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) was a pioneering Prussian Egyptologist considered one of the founders of modern Egyptology. He was commissioned to lead an archaeological expedition to Egypt by the Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm IV in 1842. This 1858 English translation presents an 1856 publication that contained one of the first detailed discussions of the obscure 22nd Dynasty of ancient Egyptian kings. The 22nd Dynasty were descendants of Libyan settlers who ruled between c.943 and 716 BCE in the Third Intermediate Period of Egyptian history, a period characterised by episodes of political instability. Lepsius discusses the chronology of succession in the 22nd Dynasty with reference to texts uncovered by himself and the French archaeologist Auguste Mariette. Although some of Lepsius' assertions regarding the origin of the 22nd Dynasty are now known to be incorrect, his book is still a valuable account of the early historiography of the 22nd Dynasty.

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