Archaic Egypt Author:W. B. Emery In recent years archaeological discoveries at Sakkara, the necropolis of ancient Memphis, have produced evidence which has caused historians to revise many of their previous conceptions of Egyptian civilization of the first two dynasties 3200-2780 BC. The origins of the Egypt of the Pharaohs still emain obscure, but the new material uncovered by... more » the pick of the excavator shows that the people of the Nile Valley at that remote period enjoyed a far higher degree of culture than has hitherto been recognized. Architecture and the arts had reached a degree of excellence which in some ways was hardly surpassed when the full flower of Pharaonic civilization was in bloom. The aim of this book is to put before the reader a general survey of what we know through these recent discoveries, of the cultural achievements of the great people who lived on the banks of the Nile nearly five thousand years ago. While in no sense a text book this absorbing study will make an equal appeal to the student and to the layman.« less