The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs

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Jan Assmann, \"The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs\"
Publisher: Metropolitan Books | 2002 | ISBN 0805054626 | PDF | 515 pages | 15.3 MB



From one of the world's greatest Egyptologists, an original and iant study of the inner life of ancient Egypt
The Mind of Egypt presents an unprecedented account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization-the ideals, values, mentalities, belief systems, and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. Drawing on a range of literary, iconographic, and archaeological sources, renowned historian Jan Assmann reconstructs a world of unparalleled complexity, a culture that, long before others, possessed an extraordinary degree of awareness and self-reflection.

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