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Old Egyptian civilization is so grand our heads sometimes have a problem changing to it. It lasted 3,000 years, much longer than another on the planet. Its Great Pyramid of Cheops was the tallest building on earth until well in to the 19th hundred years and remains the sole Ancient Think about still standing. And it was the most technologically advanced of the early civilizations, with the medical knowledge that made Egyptian doctors the most well-known on earth. Yet even after deciphering its hieroglyphs, and marveling at its scarabs, mummies, obelisks, and sphinxes, Egyptian civilization remains one of history's most mysterious, as "other" as it is astonishing. This chronological review presents the entire history of early Egypt's three great Kingdoms: the Old Kingdom, when the pyramids were built and Egypt became a country under the supreme guideline of the pharaoh and the rules of Egyptian artwork were established; the center Kingdom, when Egypt was a country fighting to revive its greatness; and the brand new Kingdom, when all the names we realize today-Hatshepsut, Tutankhamen, Ramses the Great, Cleopatra, and others-first appeared. Professor Brier's 48 lectures glisten with the sort of vivid anecdotes and individual glimpses that produce this early world breathe again. "The fun of background is in the facts," he notes. "Knowing that Ramses the Great was crippled by joint disease for the last 10 years of his extended life makes us more sympathetic to the boastful monarch who fathered more than 100 children. If we know very well what it was like to be considered a miner sent to the turquoise mines in the Sinai mountains in the summer, we will feel a kinship with this long-dead counterparts."
