Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt (The Chronicles Series)

Really enjoyed the history - never knew Egypt had been conquered by other races so many times -

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never knew there were so many pharaohs mostly because most attention is paid to six of one half a dozen of the other nice addition to my library and my personal education

Most fascinating - it is like a text book. I use it as a book of reference. It is a must read for all interested in Amcient Egypt

good information . Lots of images.

Great book for the historian.

Absolutely love this book! It contains every bit of information I need to research for some of my future novels.

As an Egyptian I did not know most of these information and kings that I never knew they exited ,so sad for sure but I was happy to find that history and how things went. it miss little things but could be easily added to be fully complete

The Chronicle of the Pharaohs is a lovely book with plenty of illustrations and diagrams. It is published by Thames and Hudson who I associate with well produced Art books and this is no exception.There is so much to learn about Egyptology. Once you understand one small thing and look deeper there is more to learn and so it goes on. I have a number of general guides to Egypt including the excellent Atlas of Ancient Egypt by John Baines and Jaromir Malek  Atlas of Ancient Egypt  but they do not go into much detail about the individual Pharaohs. The Chronicle of the Pharaohs does just that. One of the most useful inclusions is the illustrations of the Cartouches of the Birth Names and Throne names. These occur many times on the temples and once you learn a few of them it makes understanding the history more enjoyable.I would have liked to see a full breakdown of the Hieroglyphs of the names rather than what I consider a simple translation. For example: the Birth Name of Ramesses II is given as Ra-messes (Mery-amun) - "Re has Fashioned Him, Beloved of Amun". It is not clear what each Hieroglyph means. Giving the transliteration (something like r~-mss hk}-iwnw ) would be a great help.So I need to investigate more and have bought another book to help me with this. Middle Egyptian by James P Allen.  Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs In summary The Chronicle of the Pharaohs is an excellent book to help learn about the rulers of Ancient Egypt. Atlas of Ancient EgyptMiddle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs

5 star

A superbly illustrated , readable chronicle of the Pharaohs. A pronunciation guide at the beginning would be helpful!

great book

AFTER RETURNING FROM A TRIP TO EGYPT I PURCHASED THE ABOVE BOOK AND I MUST SAY I AM FINDING IT A BRILLIANT AND INFORMATIVE READ.IT GIVES INFO ON ALL THE PHAROHS FROM THE FIRST DYNASTY,EXPLAINING THE HISTORY OF WHAT IS KNOWN,COMPLETE WITH CARTOUCHES FOR EACH,AND A WEALTH OF INFORMATION.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED