EGYPT

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Black Nile
3. Chapter Two - Kingdoms of the Two Lands
4. Chapter Three - The Old Kingdom Rises
5. Chapter Four - Khufu’s Obsession
6. Chapter Five - Gods With Names and Faces
7. Chapter Six - Collapse and Confusion
8. Chapter Seven - The Middle Kingdom Returns
9. Chapter Eight - Hyksos Invade
10. Chapter Nine - The New Kingdom Awakens
11. Chapter Ten - Akhenaten Goes Monotheist
12. Chapter Eleven - King Tut’s Life and Shadow
13. Chapter Twelve - Ramesses the Great
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Sea Peoples and the Slow Fall
15. Chapter Fourteen - Nubians, Libyans, and Priests
16. Chapter Fifteen - The Persian Takeover
17. Chapter Sixteen - Alexander and the Greek Reset
18. Chapter Seventeen - Cleopatra: The Last Queen

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THE FIRST TIME someone picked up a chisel in Egypt, woolly mammoths were still alive somewhere on Earth. Let that sink in. By the time Julius Caesar showed up, the Great Pyramid was already 2,500 years old. Ancient to him. Cleopatra lived closer to the iPhone than to the man who built it. Egypt wasn’t just old. It was timeless. And it still is. Even today, its ghost hangs in the air. You see it in tattoos, tarot decks, movie villains, and music videos. You hear it in whispers about curses, magic, aliens, and immortality. You feel it when you stare at a giant stone face missing its nose and wonder, Who the hell built this? And how did they not disappear? Because most civilizations...