Three and a half thousand years of history (until the country was thoroughly Arabised) are not easy to evaluate in well under 500 pages, especially as two purposes are only variably served - to tell the story of the civilisation and to recount its influence on later civilisations. Some chapters (each by a different academic) have too much of the air of the professor looking down from a lectern at rows of eager students who will all by now be moving into their seventies yet there are still things to be learned and appreciated. Although half a century old (and so very much out of date in the detail), 'The Legacy of Egypt', part of a series of such books published by Oxford (Clarendon Press) on the later influence of many of the ancient civilisations, remains a useful summary of the contribution of Egypt to Western culture.
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