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.

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.