“The best single-volume history of Egypt yet published. The work is intended for the general public rather than the specialist.”
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“Professor Breasted has shown remarkable skill in weaving together the scattered fragments of information that we possess covering the whole period of his treatment; and the result is a vigorous, popular, and highly interesting narrative account—even though sometimes severely condensed—of the political, religious, and social life of the ancient Egyptians.” Ira Maurice Price.
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“He has, in a word, and without abating a jot of authority, invested the most arid as well as the most intensely human topics of Egyptology with a fresh interest. To us its most serious defect lies in the unduly high valuation of the influence of the Nile valley people on the earliest civilization of Southern Europe.”
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“His style ... is singularly vigorous and lucid. Professor Breasted never forgets that his book is a history and not an archaeological treatise, and this is one of his great merits.”
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“The student will look in vain for any other one work so well adapted as this volume is to give him his first broad ideas and impressions of the beginning of civilization and of the great general tendencies of social evolution which have been exemplified in the development of all peoples ancient and modern.” Franklin H. Giddings.
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