Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt.CHRONICLE OF THE PHARAOHS: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt Dynasties of Ancient Egypt Old Kingdom (or Old Empire) Dynasty Years Famous Rulers I 3110–2884 B.C. Menes II 2884–2780 B.C. III 2780–2680 B.C. Snefru IV 2680–2565 B.C. Khufu (Cheops), Khafre, Menkaure. PETER A. CLAYTON Pharaohs led a powerful Egyptian civilization that lasted more than 3,000 years. In this vivid guide containing more than 300 images, archaeologist Clayton details the reigns of nearly 200 pharaohs, including Amenhotep, Ramses the Great, Tutankhamen, and Cleopatra. For each dynasty An application development system for enterprise client/server environments from Dynasty Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (www.dynasty.com). Introduced in 1993, it is a repository-driven system that supports Windows, Mac and Motif clients and NT, OS/2 and major Unix servers and databases. , Clayton includes tables that provide royal names, places of burial, genealogies, and main achievements. Sidebars include further details, such as the rags-to-riches story of Weni, the ambiguous gender of Akhenaton, and further information about texts found in the pyramids, royal mummies, and tomb robberies. Among the images are portraits of all the major rulers, diagrams of royal tombs and monuments, and photos of artwork and artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. . Thames & Hudson, 2006, 224 p., b&w and color images A (digital) color image is a digital image that includes color information for each pixel. For visually acceptable results, it is necessary (and almost sufficient) to provide three samples (color channels , paperback, $24.95. |
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