Pratik
Three thousand years of history can be extremely difficult to capture in one book, but Wilkinson does a great job of not only walking us through Egypt's past but also examining the influences and context that shaped the events. There's a lot of information here, and I listened to the audio version, so I took my time going over it over the past two months. I'm sure I can't give an exam on Egyptology anytime soon, but at least things seem more familiar now, and I have a better understanding of the region. It was not just building pyramids and tombs, although it seemed to take up a lot of their time, but also intense politicking, controlling people for their own selfish ends, and making horrendous strategic errors that doomed a long line of people. But it's a wonder that the civilization lasted so long, especially considering how quickly empires have collapsed since then.
Three thousand years of history can be extremely difficult to capture in one book, but Wilkinson does a great job of not only walking us through Egypt's past but also examining the influences and context that shaped the events. There's a lot of information here, and I listened to the audio version, so I took my time going over it over the past two months. I'm sure I can't give an exam on Egyptology anytime soon, but at least things seem more familiar now, and I have a better understanding of the region. It was not just building pyramids and tombs, although it seemed to take up a lot of their time, but also intense politicking, controlling people for their own selfish ends, and making horrendous strategic errors that doomed a long line of people. But it's a wonder that the civilization lasted so long, especially considering how quickly empires have collapsed since then.