Mark’s Reviews > A History of Ancient Egypt > Status Update

It’s interesting though not surprising that many of the names we use for Egyptian cities and kings are Greek in origin

This is a pretty lengthy introductory chapter but it’s also very good. Surprisingly lots of info on historiography, especially as it relates to Egyptology of course. One interesting tidbit what that historians tend to define an era or civilization by the language used in the source materials. When the Egyptians switched to using Greek, many historians mark this as the end of ancient Egypt

Mieroop states in his introduction that he intends in this book to write an introductory text on ancient Egyptian political history, with some elements of social history. He claims many other introductory books lack academic rigor. This text is written for use in college classes