The Rise And Fall Of Ancient Egypt By Toby Wilkinson

Egypt has a very paradoxical culture since it is one of the most well known cultures and simultaneously one of the most mysterious and hidden. Even though we know much about the history of ancient Egypt, there are still many mysteries that involve the lives of the pharaohs, conspiracies, intrigues and politics. That is why the book of Toby Wilkinson exposes this part of the ancient Egyptian history.

The title of the book shed some light on the history of Egypt since we may always see the fall of the kingdom after a big rise and, unfortunately, this circle is closed, so Egypt is doomed to be in a bad state after the demise of the famous Cleopatra.

There are many reasons for such a rising and falling pattern. The first reason is the geographical

But the great thing about The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt is that Toby Wilkinson concentrates on less popular pharaohs whose life is as much interesting and valuable from the historical point of view as well as some less popular battles that took place in the hot sands of ancient Egypt.

Some of Toby`s colleagues describe his narration as very accurate and precise since Toby has the vision of the true evolution of Egyptian rulers and their routine life and history. However, the main area of Wilkinson`s interests is in exposing the honor, nobility and greatness of the Egyptian culture, the ways of Egyptian pharaohs to glorify themselves with the help of building the pyramids and temples and other types of arts, the dependence of the Egyptian monarchy and ruling system from the religious views and the war problems.

Toby succeeds in convincing us that Egyptians are both wild pageants that sometimes have barbaric habits and laws and high spirited and smart people with a great culture and well-developed civilization. He also tries to expose the truth about Egyptians` wall writing, saying that they tended to describe what they were willing to witness rather than what they already saw. They also tended to expose the power of the social classification of that period by drawing their pharaohs with an absolute power to rule among

Many researches believe that ancient Egypt is the founder of the modern country-state political and ruling system, but unfortunately, the truth is less pleased and democratic. We have no doubts that the Egyptian pharaohs were probably the first rulers to use religion and ideology for their own political and selfish motives as ruling the country, getting the support of their folk, but on the other side of the coin, they also used the frightening of their people and other brutal and bloody methods as a leverage for keeping the power in their hands and preventing any riots or other issues.

In addition, the author picture the ordinary life of an ordinary Egyptian showing the constant violence directed upon the soldiers in order to improve the discipline and create a perfect environment; the gap between various social layers in the form of doctors who would serve only the rich people and not even paying attention to the poor people in need. Apart from the natural threats in the form of various lethal diseases, they were also threatened by the local taxes and fees that were equal for poor and rich