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IN “From Tribe to Empire,” Profs. Moret and M. G. Davy drew a picture of the growth of civilisation in the favoured area of the Mediterranean and Near East, taking this to include Mesopotamia. The former now turns to a more intensive study of one of the three great cultures included in the area, namely, that of Egypt. As might be expected from Prof. Moret, the religious aspect is his special preoccupation; but in Egypt that is almost inevitable. For, as he points out, the character of the records from which our knowledge of Egyptian history is drawn, which are almost exclusively of a funerary or dedicatory nature, gives them the peculiarity of recording gratitude either towards god or the king.
The Nile and Egyptian Civilization.
Prof. Alexandre Moret. Translated by M. R. Dobie. (The History of Civilization Series.) Pp. xxix + 497 + 24 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Alfred A. Knopp, 1927.) 25s. net.
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Archæology and Ethnography. Nature 122, 532 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122532a0
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