Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs 3100-320 BC (World of Art)
by:
Cyril Aldred (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780195202243 (0195202244)
Publish date: January 1st 1980
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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, ...