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by Toby A.H. Wilkinson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (7 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0500051224
  • ISBN-13: 978-0500051221
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Generations of scholars, tourists and armchair travellers have been intrigued by the puzzle of ancient Egypt's origins. Now, in the light of Toby Wilkinson's dramatic new discoveries, the genesis of the pharaohs is at last coming into focus. But the picture that emerges is not what we imagined. The ancestors of the pyramid-builders were not village-dwelling farmers, but wandering cattle-herders, and pharaonic civilization was forged in one of the most forbidding places on Earth: the Eastern Desert, between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea. Here, the pharaohs' distant ancestors left a stunning legacy that has remained hidden for 6,000 years: hundreds of intricate rock carvings in which the origins of later pharaonic imagery is clearly discernible. Toby Wilkinson traces the discovery of these ancient records, dates them, and identifies the artists who made them, basing his own discoveries in the heart of the Eastern Desert.

About the Author
Toby Wilkinson took a First Class degree in Egyptology from Cambridge University and is now a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He lectures widely on ancient Egypt and led the expedition to Egypt's Eastern Desert that gave rise to the discoveries in this book. His other publications include Early Dynastic Egypt.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Origins of Egyptian Civilisation.......in Egypt!, 5 May 2003
By David Alan Roberts (20052 MONZA (Mi) Italy) - See all my reviews
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The title "Genesis of the Pharaohs" may suggest we are in for yet another esoteric theory on how Egyptian civilisation was introduced by a master race of Atlantean Freemasons. In fact believers in that sort of thing are likely to be a tad disapponted because what we get is very elegantly written and convincing theory that, in extreme synthesis, the origins of Ancient Egyptian Civilisation were more or less, in Egypt.

Toby Wilkinson, an Egyptologist who has explored the rock art of Egypt's Eastern Desert constructs an authoritative argument that the origins of Egyptian Civilisation lie in the Eastern desert at a time ( six thousand years ago) when increased rainfall had given rise to savannah conditions. Such conditions allowed nomadic cattle herders to range from the banks of the Nile to their pasture lands, depending on the season and to become familiar with two very different environments. As climatic conditions worsened and the savannah became desertified, these cattle herders increasingly adopted a settled lifestyle in the upper Nile Valley.

Wilkinson bases his arguments on the extraordinary rock art of the Eastern Desert, which juxtapose scenes of savannah dwelling animals( giraffes, elephants and hyenas) and hunting with scenes which clearly depict cattle husbandry. Through such scenes we can see the start of the Egyptians representations of the natural world. Wilkinson devotes a further chapter to examining the recurring images of boats in rock art and in considering their influence on later Egyptian depictions of boats and journeys to the afterlife.

The book is very well illustrated with photographs and line drawings of the rock art.

All in all, a convincingly argued book which combines elements of archeology, art history and Egyptology, together with the history of the discovery of the rock art images. Likely to give comfort to all those believing in the gradual development of civilisation and providing a welcome relief from some of the zanier theories of cultural origins.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 9 Mar 2007
By Mrs. A. M. Chadwick (Darwen, Lancashire, England) - See all my reviews
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I have been to Egypt, the first time was in 1993, and I made my mind up that I'd like to study Egyptology.

Although in my second year of studying Egyptology, during my first year this was one of my study books.

It's a very in-depth read and you'll learn a lot about Egypt's beginning,especially the original origins of the earliest known Egyptian (where they came from,how they came to be,their nomadic life with it's changes and their culture).

It can be a little slow and sometimes you may have to read a chapter more then once for the knowledge to sink in,( I know I did), but it's well worth the money.

It makes an excellent edition to my little Egyptian library, which now stands at nearly 1000 books on this subject. :-)
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4.0 out of 5 stars ORIGINS CLOAKED IN MYSTERY, 7 April 2003
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The origins of ancient Egyptian civilisation are cloaked in mystery and controversy. Whilst Dr. Wilkinson's theories are not the complete answer, they may well taken as complementing other theories such as those mooted by Graham Hancock, (sea-going "technically-skilled" visitors who arrived as proto-monument builders in Egypt & Mesopotamia in the period around 10,500 BCE, possibly from South America or elsewhere). Wilkinson's research fills in some of the gaps in the "uncharted" era that preceded the dynastic age of 2500 BCE onwards. He sifts evidence from petroglyphs etched on cliff faces by neolithic herders in the eastern Sahara, and earlier research done by late German researcher, Hans Winkler, into aboriginal Egyptian and East Saharan rock art, including effigies of tall-prowed, sacred boats carrying godlike figures.
Quite clearly the Ta' Neteru or Time of the Gods was part of an extremely ancient orally-transmitted myth among such herdsmen.
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