Cyril Aldred

Introduction When the boy Tut-ankh-amun came to the throne of his ancestors about the year 1362 BC, Egypt had already existed as a kingdom for over 1700 years with a characteristic culture which, however, had adapted itself to the changed conditions of the Late Bronze Age. The great stone...

Chronology and the Dating of Egyptian Works of Art Manetho, the learned High Priest in Heliopolis who was commissioned by Ptolemy I in the third century bc to write a history of Egypt, divided into thirty-one dynasties the entire chronicle of events, from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt...