The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 1, Part 2
Subtitle: Early History of the Middle East
Contributors: I. E. S. Edwards (Editor); C. J. Gadd (Editor); N. G. L. Hammond (Editor)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 10, 1971
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1080
ISBN-13: 9780521077910; 9780511466755
Subjects: World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; History; History - General History; Ancient - General; History / Ancient / General; History, Ancient
First sentence: TRADITION and a substantial body of indirect evidence suggest strongly that Egypt, in the period immediately preceding the foundation of the First Dynasty, was divided into two independent kingdoms: a northern kingdom, which included the Nile Delta and extended southwards perhaps to the neighbourhood of the modern village of Atfih (Lower Egypt) and a southern kingdom comprising the territory between Atfih and Gebel es-Silsila (Upper Egypt).