What are some good books about the Ancient Egyptians? >inb4 WE

WUZ

>>9062429
AUTISTS

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>>9062429
degenerates

PHARAOHS

>>9062524
..but not until the new kingdom, before that we were just
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KINGS

>>9062429
Egyptian book of the dead?

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Kemeticism is a good start.

>>9062429
They are the most underrated civilization
They had a way of life that is utterly unimaginable

>>9062709
Interesting... Tell me more.

>>9062711
Could you imagine living in a civilization that's existed in its state for long enough for the founding of it to be forgotten by your own historians

a place where your entire life was measured by two seasons based almost solely on the river swelling and receding

where the god you worshiped literally ruled over you, and monuments of your people housed their bones

other peoples (the Canaanites) worshiped a god that represented your culture

Do you want a history of ancient egypt, or do you want to learn about their mythology/religion/whatever, or something else entirely?

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt is a good starting point for the first. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt is ok as well.

The Book of the Dead is the most obvious introduction to their myths, and it's a decent starting point, especially if you get a copy with decent analysis text and the like. For the love of god, avoid the Budge translation though, it's fucking awful.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15932?msg=welcome_stranger#Pg_207

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http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/profecias/esp_profecia08.htm

"O Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion nothing will remain but an empty tale, which thine own children in time to come will not believe; nothing will be left but graven words, and only the stones will tell of thy piety."

Here's an excerpt from the Hermetica, which dates to the second or third century AD. It's a prophecy from Thoth/Hermes (God of knowledge) about the demise of Egypt.

Egyptian civilization was as ancient to the Greeks and Romans as the Greeks and Romans are to modernity. Those pyramids, temples and hieroglyphs has been fascinating and perplexing people for millennia.

Aristotle mentions the egyptians are regarded as the most ancient civilization, and that they invented mathematics. But i haven't read any book on them

>>9062760
What would you recommend if I want to get a good understanding of their worldview and outlook in daily life?

Something like cultural anthropology, but not so much focused on how they made baskets, more like using all the available data to construct how they saw the world and reality. Like a history of mentalités.

>>9062429
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