num_pages: 432
description: In A History of Egypt  Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5000 years of Egyptian history highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation. No country's past can match Egypt's in antiquity richness and variety. However it is rarely presented as a comprehensive panorama because scholars tend to divide it into distinct erasprehistoric pharaonic Greco-Roman Coptic medieval Islamic Ottoman and modernthat are not often studied in relation to one another. In this daringly ambitious project drawing on the most current scholarship as well as his own research Thompson makes the case that few if any other countries have as many threads of continuity running through their entire historical experience. With its unprecedented scope and lively and readable style A History of Egypt offers students travelers and general readers alike an engaging narrative of the extraordinarily long course of human history by the Nile. 
language: English
title: A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present
publisher: Anchor