A History of Egypt

From Earliest Times to the Present
By Jason Thompson

No country's past can match Egypt in antiquity, richness and variety. Rarely is this nation's history presented as a comprehensive panorama, since scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras, despite strong elements of continuity running through them.

Historian Jason Thompson has written a cohesive account of Egypt's millennia-long past. Readers are offered a sure guide through the labyrinthine corridors of Egypt's past, from the pre-dynastic kingdoms to the post-modern nation-state of the 21st century. Jason Thompson has written a remarkable work of synthesis and concision, offering students, travellers, and general readers alike an engaging one-volume narrative of the extraordinarily long course of human history by the Nile.

Review in Egyptian Archaeology, Spring 2011 edition.

See pages 36-37 

'A short but comprehensive history of the whole of Egyptian civilization has long been desirable and now two have appeared within a short time of each other.'

'Both are excellent summations of the flow of Egyptian history,a nd the reader will be hard pressed to choose between them.' - Morris L Bierbrier on A History of Egypt and Egypt: A Short History

Jason Thompson is the author of Sir William Gardner and His Circle (American University in Cairo Press) and the editor of Edward William Lane's Description of Egypt and An Account of the Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians.