Afterglow of Empire

Aidan Dodson is Hon. Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol, UK, was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo in 2013, and Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society during 2011–16. Awarded his PhD by the University of Cambridge in 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. He is the author of over twenty books, most recently a new edition of Amarna Sunset (AUC Press, 2018) and Sethy I, King of Egypt (AUC Press, 2019).

• CONTENTSPreface ixAbbreviations and Conventions Used in Text xiiiMaps xviiIntroduction: Imperial Egypt 1 The Fall of the House of Rameses 32 Of Tanis and Thebes 393 The House of Shoshenq 834 Disintegrations 1135 Saviors from the South? 1396 From Humiliation to Renaissance 169Appendices 1811 The Absolute Chronology of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period 1812 Outline Chronology of Ancient Egypt 1903 Correlation of Reigns, Regnal Years, and Pontificates 1954 Hieroglyphic Titularies of Kings and God’s Wives 2025 Genealogies 228Sources of Images 235Notes 237Bibliography 285Index 315

A very readable, excellent study of one of the more complicated periods of Egyptian history . . . an excellent book, well researched, well written and well illustrated throughout. . . . Every now and again there comes a book which one should buy–this is such a book.