Towards a new history for the Egyptian Old Kingdom : perspectives on the pyramid age /

Towards a new history for the Egyptian Old Kingdom : perspectives on the pyramid age / edited by Peter Der Manuelian and Thomas Schneider. - vi, 529 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm - Harvard Egyptological studies ; volume 1 . - volume 1. .

"In this first volume of the Harvard Egyptological Studies we publish the proceedings of an International Symposium held at Harvard University on April 26th, 2012"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ancient Egyptian history as an example of punctuated equilibrium : an outline / Economic implications of the Menkaure triads / Did the Old Kingdom collapse? A new view of the First Intermediate Period / The chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties according to Manetho's Aegyptiaca / The entextualization of the pyramid texts and the religious history of the Old Kingdom / Shareholders : the Menkaure Valley temple occupation in context / Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition contributions to Old Kingdom history at Giza : some rights and wrongs / Cattle, kings and priests : Phyle rotations and Old Kingdom civil dates / The Sed-Festival of Niuserra and the Fifth Dynasty sun temples / The state of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty / The Old Kingdom abroad : an epistemological perspective with remarks on the biography of Iny and the Kingdom of Dugurasu / The dawn of Osiris and the dusk of the sun-temples : religious history at the end of the Fifth Dynasty / Centralized taxation during the Egyptian Old Kingdom / Miroslav Barta -- Florence Dunn Friedman -- John Gee -- Roman Gundacker -- Harold M. Hays -- Mark Lehner -- Peter Der Manuelian -- John S. Nolan -- Massimiliano Nuzzolo -- Hratch Papazian -- Thomas Schneider -- Racheli Shalomi-Hen -- Leslie Anne Warden.

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Egypt--History--Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C.--Congresses.
Egypt--Politics and government--To 332 B.C.--Congresses.
Egypt--Antiquities--Congresses.

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