The Eloquent Peasant

London has always had a fascination with ancient Egypt dating back to the ‘Egyptomania’ of Victorian times and today the city is recognized as one of the foremost centres of Egyptological research. The collection of the British Museum is world renowned, as is its most famous exhibit, the Rosetta Stone. But there are many other […]

I stumbled across the weblog of an acquaintance of mine and found that he’d written a quite nice ‘History of Ancient Egypt in Ten Paragraphs’. It’s just a summary so obviously much is left unsaid, but it is still a good overview of an astonishing 3000 years of history.