V. 1. The land: its physical features, climate, and characteristics -- The beginnings of life in Egypt -- Pt. 1. The old kingdom. The "dead demi-gods", and the unification of Egypt -- United Egypt and its earliest royal line -- Mena's successors of the first dynasty -- "Come like shadows, so depart!" -- The pyramid-builders -- The children of the Sun-god -- The sixth dynasy, and the close of the old kingdom -- The first intermedicate dark period -- Pt. 2. The middle kingdom. The rise of Thebes under the eleventh dynasty -- The rise of the twelfth dynasty and the golden age of Egypt -- The reign of Senusert I. and the story of Sinuhe -- Two undistinguished reigns -- The culmination of the middle kingdom -- The middle kingdom: society, foreign relations, literature and art -- The second intermediate period and the Hyksos domination -- The war of independence. V. 2. Pt. 3. The new empire. The rise of the eighteenth dynasty -- Thothmes I. and the great Asiatic adventure -- An interlude; the reign of Thothmes II -- The reign and work of the woman-pharoah -- Thothmes III. and the conquest of Asia -- Thothmes III. and the Egyptian empire -- A pause on the summit; Amenhotep II. and Thothmes IV -- The golden emperor; Amenhotep III -- The reign of Akhenaten, and his religious revolution -- The city of the horizon -- The collapse of Egypt's Asiatic empire -- The reaction, and the close of the eighteenth dynasty -- Art and religion in the Amarna period.