A history of ancient EgyptThis account of the rise and fall of civilization in the Nile Valley is the first detailed, reign by reign history of ancient Egypt to be published in English since Sir Alan Gardiner's Egypt of the Pharaohs (1961). Nicolas Grimal's description of the political and economic history of the Egyptians is recounted within the framework of an intricate and well argued chronology. At a time when the vast accumulation of information from ancient Egypt is