MID E 3753 - Pharaonic Egypt: Gift of the Nile

Meets with ANTH 3969/5969. This course is an introduction to archaeology, religion, history, art, architecture and other aspect of Pharaonic Egypt. It covers a period directly preceding the unification of Egypt (ca. 3200 B.C.) until the Hellenistic period, beginning with the "liberation" of Egypt by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C.