Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
A Note on Names
Ancient Egyptian Chronology
List of Black-and-White Illustrations
List of Color Illustrations in Photograph Insert
List of Maps
One: The Two Lands
Geb the Hunter
The Wagon or the Mountain
Troubles with Time
Wearers of the Double Crown
Wars of Religion?
Two: Houses of Eternity
King Djoser’s Magician
Good King Snefru
The Missing Queen
Children of Re
Three: The Good Shepherd
Despair and Deliverance
Binder of the Two Lands
Four: The Fight for Freedom
Invasion
Liberation
Five: The Woman Who Was King
Hatshepsut the Queen
The King of Upper and Lower Egypt
The Hatshepsut Problem
The Other Hatshepsut Problem
Photographic Insert
Six: The Conqueror
Seven: The Power and the Glory
Amenhotep II
Amenhotep the Magnificent 198
Eight: The Great Heresy
Nine: The Broken Reed
Look on My Works!
Ramses II
Peoples of the Sea
Ten: The Long Dying
Adventures of a Man of No Consequence
The Quick and the Dead
Tomb Robbers and Royal Mummies
Mummy Musical Chairs
The Third Intermediate Period
Horsemen from the Holy Mountain
Back to the Drawing Board
The Final Humiliation
Additional Reading
Sources of Quotes
Searchable Terms
About the Author
Other Books by Barbara Mertz
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher