Commentary on a Book About the History of Egypt

The history of Egypt in its original form happens to exist as much of an adventure tale rather than contemporary history that is full of events and happenings. The Paranoiac culture has been a significant source of fascination to everyone, even the ones who are significantly unable to understand the significance of the entire system within which each and every thing provides with a kind of impression of unchanging and profound wisdom. The Greek travellers did major misinterpretations, they were never able to convey the true essence of the information being conveyed by the Egyptians.

The theme of the book revolves around the arrival of the Egyptians culture right into the outside world, hence depicting the overall differences within the concerned culture and also to be catering for the innovations and transitions of the Egyptian culture. The book caters for each and every minute detail of events that happened in a certain signified sequence within the history of the culture.

The book basically fulfills a longstanding vacuum for the concise introduction to the Egypt of antiquity. The work of the author could even be labeled tedious, cluttered as it is with the most minute observations of the recent scholars, most of whom have significant indications within their writing, they however have very little ability or significant interest in communicating with the young people just out of the high school. Other lesser bloated tomes are drifting away from a significantly pure historic focus to the devotion of a whole chapter to the religion, culture, writing, architecture and even art at various points in time. Egypt is a recognized cultural trendsetter of the Arabic-speaking world, and contemporary Arab culture is heavily influenced by E...

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...oung people just out of the high school. A lot of images from those times have also been placed to enable the readers to draw a clear and concise picture of the happenings of that time. This I think is a good approach because it also enables the reader to have an imaginative insight and this makes the reading more interesting and the readers can relate to it a lot more.

The style of writing that has been adopted by the author is very academic in nature. The terms used are as per the ones presented by the historians themselves and this shows that it done for the professionals. I do not think that high school students would be able to grasp a lot of information from right within the book. It provides with a lot of terms and academic vocabulary that needs to be understood. Also I think that the author himself should have provided with an executive summary of the book.