The plan adopted in the production of this history is one which will in some measure also condition its use. The sources from which the knowledge of the early career of the Nile Valley peoples is drawn are of the meagerest extent, and most inadequate in character. Contents: Introduction; Old Kingdom; Middle Kingdom, the Feudal Age; Hyksos, The Rise of the Empire; The Empire, the First Period; The Empire, the Second Period; Decadence; Restoration and the End. Illustrated with two hundred figures and maps.