Beginning with the river and the land it created, Rawlinson describes the Egyptians’ character and religion and then tells their history reign by reign: the pyramid builders, the rise of Thebes, the Hyksos invasion and expulsion, the conquests of Thothmes, Queen Hatasu’s trading fleet, and Amenhotep III with the singing colossus of Memnon.
Written for the Story of the Nations series, it reads Egypt partly through the Bible, and its scholarship is that of the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.