Egyptian Art In The Days Of The Pharaohs, 3100 320 Bc
by:
Cyril Aldred (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780500181805 (0500181802)
Publish date: January 1st 1980
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
From the introduction:Manetho, the learnéd 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 under Menes, the first pharaoh, ...