Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
by Toby Wilkinson · first published 2010
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The rise and fall of ancient egypt by Toby wilkinson.
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗…finding some spectacular, flamboyantly surprising new form of alterity. And the former is rather easier to pull off than the latter. But, I read about the piles of genitalia in Toby Wilkinson's "The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt" and about the god-statues in Trevor Bryce's "Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction."
on “Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off” ↗…(better known as The Digital Antiquarian) amateur history books, his Wonders of the World series - I think the one on Chinese history was especially ambitious and nice. I enjoyed Toby Wilkinson's The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, but it's a bit one-note; still looking for the Egyptian history book I'll fall in love with, though as as a general map it's quite good.
on “Beyond Greece and Rome” ↗