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The story of this civilization from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - the Great Pyramid. It draws on a huge amount of new evidence uncovered in the last 20 years, and is the first of a 2-volume work.
Synopsis
In this engaging and ambitious work, John Romer aims to refocus the gaze of the non-specialist away from the Pharaonic period (about which there are any number of popular histories) onto the Neolithic, and the growth of a centralised Egyptian state.