Afterglow of empire: Egypt from the fall of the new kingdom to the Saite Renaissance PDF

Dodson, geboren am 11. September 1962 in London, studierte an der Langley Grammar School (1975–81), bevor er an das Collingwood College, Durham, wechselte (1981–2). Er erwarb einen BA an der University of Liverpool (1985) und einen MPhil (1986, Museum Practice and Archaeology) und PhD (1995, Ägyptologie) am Christ’s College, Cambridge. Er lehrte seit Oktober 1996 an der University of Bristol und war von Januar bis Juli 2013 Simpson-Professor für Ägyptologie an der American University in Kairo. Sein Hauptforschungsinteresse gilt dem alten Ägypten mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf dynastischer Geschichte und Chronologie , Grabarchitektur, Sarkophag- und Sargdesign, Kanopenausrüstung und die Geschichte der Ägyptologie; Er ist auch Historiker der Marine des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts und hat über die Königsgräber Großbritanniens geschrieben.

Afterglow of empire: Egypt from the fall of the new kingdom to the Saite Renaissance pdf von Aidan Dodson

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom crumbled in the face of internal crises and external pressures, ultimately reversed by invaders from Nubia and consolidated by natives of the Nile Delta following a series of Assyrian invasions. Much of this era remains obscure, with little consensus among Egyptologists. Against this background, Aidan Dodson reconsiders the evidence and proposes a number of new solutions to the problems of the period. He also considers the art, architecture, and archaeology of the period, including the royal tombs of Tanis, one of which yielded the intact burials of no fewer than five pharaohs. The book is extensively illustrated with images of this material, much of which is little known to non-specialists of the period.