Barry Kemp's Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, Routledge, 1989, is a scholarly study. Its strength is that Kemp, an Egyptologist known for excavation work at Amarna, builds an interpretive account of how Egyptian civilization actually functioned rather than a simple chronological survey. Its limit is the ordinary one for an interpretive synthesis: it argues Kemp's own analytical framework, which is influential but represents one scholar's reading of the evidence among several in the field.
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Barry J. Kemp's Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, published by Routledge in 1989, the top tier reflecting that Kemp, an Egyptologist known for excavation work at Amarna, builds an interpretive account of how Egyptian civilization actually functioned, notwithstanding that as an interpretive synthesis it argues Kemp's own analytical framework, influential but one scholar's reading among several in the field. NotesScholarly study of ancient Egyptian civilization, Routledge, 1989.
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AuthorBarry J. Kemp
PublisherRoutledge
Publication Year1989
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Source Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a CivilizationBarry J. Kemp
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Languages, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 general references.
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