TY - BOOK AU - Manuelian,Peter Der AU - Schneider,Thomas TI - Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom: Perspectives on the Pyramid Age T2 - Harvard Egyptological Studies SN - 9789004301894 AV - DT85 .T69 2015 U1 - 932.012 PY - 2015/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Egypt-History-Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C.-Congresses KW - Egypt-Politics and government-To 332 B.C.-Congresses KW - Egypt-Antiquities-Congresses KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Ancient Egyptian History as an Example of Punctuated Equilibrium: An Outline -- Chapter 2 Economic Implications of the Menkaure Triads -- Chapter 3 Did the Old Kingdom Collapse? A New View of the First Intermediate Period -- Chapter 4 The Chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties according to Manetho's Aegyptiaca -- Chapter 5 The Entextualization of the Pyramid Texts and the Religious History of the Old Kingdom -- Chapter 6 Shareholders: The Menkaure Valley Temple Occupation in Context -- Chapter 7 Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition Contributions to Old Kingdom History at Giza: Some Rights and Wrongs -- Chapter 8 Cattle, Kings and Priests: Phyle Rotations and Old Kingdom Civil Dates -- Chapter 9 The Sed-Festival of Niuserra and the Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples -- Chapter 10 The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty -- Chapter 11 The Old Kingdom Abroad: An Epistemological Perspective With Remarks on the Biography of Iny and the Kingdom of Dugurasu -- Chapter 12 The Dawn of Osiris and the Dusk of the Sun-Temples: Religious History at the End of the Fifth Dynasty -- Chapter 13 Centralized Taxation during the Old Kingdom -- Index N2 - These conference papers from a one-day international Egyptology symposium at Harvard University (April 26, 2012) consider questions of kingship, religion, art, economics, and old and new archaeological excavations at the Giza Pyramids and beyond (3rd millennium BCE) UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4082133 ER -