"Hieroglyph-de Manabou!" by YOSHIMURA Sakuji

Mr. Yoshimura is a professor at Waseda University in Japan. He is very famous for his study on ancient Egypt.

This book is about the history of ancient Egypt which existed for about 3000 years. The age of ancient Egypt can be divided into 9 small periods: Early Dynastic Period, Old Kingdom, First Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period, New Kingdom, Third Intermediate Period, Late Period, and Ptolemaic Dynasty. During this 3000 years, there were about 150 - 200 pharaohs. In this book, ten pharaohs are selected and explained. They are Narmer, Djoser, Khufu, Hatshepsut, Amenemhat III, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Ramses II, Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra.

I didn't know much about the ancient Egypt except for the last Ptolemaic dynasty, which was described in 'Romajin-no Monogatari' series by SHIONO Nanami. An interesting point is that Ms. Shiono and Mr. Yoshimura write completely opposite opinions about some issues, say, Cleopatra. I think this could come from the difference between ancient Rome and ancient Egypt.

(Finished reading on Mar.18, 2008)

The more detailed Japanese version of this article is here!

Japanese character(s) (kanji)
* YOSHIMURA Sakuji : 吉村作治
* Hieroglyph-de Manabou! : ヒエログリフで学ぼう！