A review by kahawa
The History of Ancient Egypt by Bob Brier

4.0

An excellent overview of ancient Egypt. Brier really knows his stuff, and obviously loves it. My biggest gripe with this is that he almost never gave the date of events, he would just mention the dynasty, which made it very hard to connect with contemporary history. Speaking of which, I wish he'd talked more about what was going on around the world during certain events. The other thing I didn't love about this, and he obviously did, was how much he would speculate about matters the history of which we know nothing (especially in the Cleopatra lecture). Fortunately he would disclose his personal speculations, but it was a bit of a waste of time, TBH. I learnt a lot, though I wouldn't say it sparked a love for ancient Egypt. The professor exuded enough passion for the both of us.