The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, edited by Donald B. Redford

Donald B. Redford

Donald B. Redford is a Canadian Egyptologist and archaeologist, currently Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is married to Susan Redford, who is also an Egyptologist currently teaching classes at the university...

 and published in three volumes by Oxford University Press

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 in 2001 contains 600 articles that cover the 5,000 years of the history of Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

, from the predynastic era to the seventh century CE. Articles cover art

Art

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, architecture

Architecture

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, religion

Religion

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, language

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, literature

Literature

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, trade

Trade

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, politics

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, everyday social life

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 and court culture in the Nile Valley.

The American Library Association

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 awarded this work its prestigious Dartmouth Medal

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in 2002.