Publisher's Synopsis
In the long history of pharaonic Egypt, the most documented period of her higher culture is that of the New Kingdom (18th to 20th Dynasties), c. 1550-1085 BC, when Egypt was one of the leading powers in the then civilized world. After the first climax of achievement that ended with the failure of the politico-religious innovations of Akhenaten, it was the Ramesside kings of the 19th and 20th Dynasties who sought to restore and to maintain Egypt's power and integrity in the radically-changing world of the 13th and 12th centuries BC.;Kenneth A. Kitchen has produced this edition of the hieroglyphic texts from temples, stelae and other monuments of this age, which constitute a valuable source for the history and civilization of this epoch.
