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History of Ancient Egypt

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Overview

Chronologically survey the full 3,000 years of recorded ancient Egyptian history led by an Egyptologist and Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

Syllabus

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  • 01: Introduction
  • 02: Prehistoric Egypt
  • 03: Ancient Egyptian Thought
  • 04: Napoleon and the Beginnings of Egyptology
  • 05: The Rosetta Stone, and Much More
  • 06: The First Nation in History
  • 07: The Rise of the Old Kingdom
  • 08: Sneferu, the Pyramid Builder
  • 09: The Great Pyramid of Giza
  • 10: The End of the Old Kingdom
  • 11: The First Intermediate Period
  • 12: The Middle Kingdom-Dynasty XI
  • 13: The Middle Kingdom-Dynasty XII
  • 14: The Second Intermediate Period
  • 15: Joseph in Egypt
  • 16: The Beginning of the New Kingdom-The Fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty
  • 17: Queen Hatshepsut
  • 18: Obelisks
  • 19: Tuthmosis III-King At Last
  • 20: The Fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty Rolls On
  • 21: Akhenaten the Heretic Pharaoh
  • 22: The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb
  • 23: The Murder of Tutankhamen-A Theory
  • 24: Medicine-The Necessary Art
  • 25: The End of Dynasty XVIII
  • 26: Mummification-How We Know What We Know
  • 27: What Mummies Tell Us
  • 28: Making a Modern Mummy
  • 29: Dynasty XIX Begins
  • 30: Ramses the Great-The Early Years
  • 31: Ramses the Great-The Later Years
  • 32: The Exodus-Did It Happen?
  • 33: The Decline of Dynasty XIX
  • 34: Dynasty XX-The Decline Continues
  • 35: Ancient Egyptian Magic
  • 36: Dynasty XXI-Egypt Divided
  • 37: Dynasty XXII-Egypt United
  • 38: Dynasty XXV-The Nubians Have Their Day
  • 39: Dynasty XXVI-The Saite Period
  • 40: Dynasty XXVII-The Persians
  • 41: Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI-The Beginning of the End
  • 42: Alexander the Great
  • 43: The First Ptolemies
  • 44: The Middle Ptolemies-The Decline
  • 45: Animal Mummies
  • 46: Cleopatra's Family
  • 47: Cleopatra-The Last Ptolemy
  • 48: The Grand Finale

Taught by

Bob Brier, Ph.D.

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