Conflicts that shaped pharaonic Egypt

Forgetting and rediscovering ancient Egypt

Northeast Africa and the land of Egypt: origins of pharaonic culture

Unity in a multicultural society

The Old Kingdom: the pyramid age

The narrow door of the desert: war in the south and the birth of the Middle Kingdom

The belly of stones: reunification and the fortress of the southern frontier

"Of what use is this power of mine?": the rise of Thebes

Thutmosis I and the rise of the New Kingdom

The king as sun, the sun as king: the Amarna Period and of the late eighteenth dynasty

Diplomacy and buffer states in the near east

The catastrophe: Ramesside Egypt and the end of the Bronze Age

Civil war and government ghouls: the collapse of the New Kingdom

The Napatan Kingdom and the resurgence of Nubia

Saite renaissance, Persian invasion, and the coming of Alexander.