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"For the ancient Egyptians, the price of national unity, effective government and a successful economy was authoritarian rule."

Finished the first chapter - on Prehistory. I feel this book is aimed at someone with a degree of archaeological knowledge already if chapter one is anything to go by. It throws around a lot of terminology that I don't think is always to hand for non-academic readers: different types of lithic for example.

The first chapter is on Prehistory. Glad I read the book on Neanderthals earlier in the year because all the archaeological jargon makes a bit more sense. And it is nice to meet the word 'lithics' again.

Parallel reading with The Egyptian Book of the Dead to give me a basic idea of Egyptian history and more recent historical/archaeological developments v the 1899 introduction to the Penguin Classics Book of the Dead.