Roger Lancelyn Green leads the Young Historian far into the past in this book, to explore the culture that flourished on the banks of the Nile many centuries before the dawn of European history.

The way leads amid an exciting and bewildering vista of crumbling monuments—from the Pyramids and the Sphinx to the great temples of Edfu and Karnak, and beyond to the colossal rock-hewn figures of Abu Simbel; among myths and stories in which we may find the seeds of many familiar legends and fairy tales; and through the strange realms of the imagination which produced The Book of the Dead and gave us the mummies of the dead Pharaohs and the sepulchral treasures of Tutankhamen. 

Later in Egypt's story come the more familiar figures; the Israelites in exile; Persian invaders; early Greek adventurers; Alexander the Great claiming kinship with the Egyptian gods; the rise of Alexandria, and the story of Cleopatra—before the Roman conquest and the final eclipse of "ancient Khem."

As with other books in this series, the young reader is taken to visit the actual scenes of the events described. Rather than a mere formal history, he is offered an exciting exploration of the past.

From the dust jacket