The mind of Egypt
Subtitle: history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs
By: Jan Assmann ; translated by Andrew Jenkins.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Historiography -- Egypt; Egypt -- History -- To 640 A.D
Description: "The Mind of Egypt presents an unprecedented account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization - the ideas, values, mentalities, belief systems, and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. Drawing on a range of literary, iconographic, and archaeological sources, the renowed historian Jan Assmann reconstructs a world of unparalleled complexity, a culture that, long before others, possessed an extraordinary degree of awareness and self-reflection."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.