TY - SOUND AU - Brier,Bob ED - Teaching Company. TI - The history of ancient Egypt T2 - The great courses AV - RZA 6373, etc. PY - 1999///] CY - Springfield, VA PB - Teaching Co. KW - Egypt KW - History KW - To 640 A.D N1 - Teaching Co.: 351A--354A; In 4 containers (26 cm.), with study guides (22 cm.) including lecture notes, outlines, timelines, glossaries, and bibliographical references; pt. 1. lecture 1. Introduction ; lecture 2. Prehistoric Egypt ; lecture 3. Ancient Egyptian thought ; lecture 4. Napoleon and the beginnings of Egyptology ; lecture 5. The Rosetta Stone, and much more ; lecture 6. The first nation in history ; lecture 7. The rise of the Old Kingdom ; lecture 8. Sneferu, the pyramid builder ; lecture 9. The Great Pyramid of Giza ; lecture 10. The end of the Old Kingdom ; lecture 11. The First Intermediate Period ; lecture 12. The Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI -- pt. 2. lecture 1. The Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XII ; lecture 2. The Second Intermediate Period ; lecture 3. Joseph in Egypt ; lecture 4. The beginning of the New Kingdom : the fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty ; lecture 5. Queen Hatshepsut ; lecture 6. Obelisks ; lecture 7. Tuthmosis III, King at last ; lecture 8. The fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty rolls on ; lecture 9. Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh ; lecture 10. The discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb ; lecture 11. The murder of Tutankhamen, a theory ; lecture 12. Medicine, the necessary art -- pt. 3. lecture 1. The end of Dynasty XVIII ; lecture 2. Mummification, how we know what we know ; lecture 3. What mummies tell us ; lecture 4. Making a modern mummy ; lecture 5. Dynasty XIX begins lecture 6. Ramses the Great, the early years ; lecture 7. Ramses the Great, the later years ; lecture 8. The exodus, did it happen ; lecture 9. The decline of Dynasty XIX ; lecture 10. Dynasty XX, the decline continues ; lecture 11. Ancient Egyptian magic ; lecture 12. Dynasty XXI, Egypt divided -- pt. 4. lecture 1. Dynasty XXII, Egypt united ; lecture 2. Dynasty XXV, the Nubians have their day ; lecture 3. Dynasty XXVI, the Saite period ; lecture 4. Dynasty XXVII, the Persians ; lecture 5. Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI, the beginning of the end ; lecture 6. Alexander the Great ; lecture 7. The first Ptolemies ; lecture 8. The middle Ptolemies, the decline ; lecture 9. Animal mummies ; lecture 10. Cleopatra's family ; lecture 11. Cleopatra, the last Ptolemy ; lecture 12. The grand finale ER -