Contents: Part I. The Rise of the City. What is a City? -- The Origins of Urbanism in Egypt -- The Location of Cities -- Building the City -- Egyptian Words for Towns and Cities -- Estimating Population -- Part II. Cities for Kings and Gods. Palaces -- Fortified Cities -- Temple and City -- Part III. Cities for People. City Government -- Towns and Houses of the Middle Kingdom -- Towns and Houses of the New Kingdom -- Country Houses -- Community Centres -- Feeding and Supplying the City -- Working Life -- Water and Sanitation -- Schools -- Crime in the City -- Leisure -- Tourism -- Death in the City -- Part IV. Graeco-Roman Egypt. The Classical City in Egypt -- Alexandria and Aegyptum -- The Faiyum in the Graeco-Roman Period -- Middle Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period -- Part V. Gazetteer of Cities and Towns of Ancient Egypt. Elephantine and Aswan -- Southern Egypt -- Thebes -- The Theban/Coptite Region -- Middle Egypt -- Amarna: The Complete City? -- Other Middle Egyptian Cities -- The Faiyum -- Memphis: The Shifting City -- Heliopolis: City of the Sun -- The Memphite Region -- The Delta: - Cities of the Canopic Branch - Cities of the Rosetta Branch - Cities of the Damietta Branch - Cities of the Pelusiac Branch - Fortress-Towns of the Eastern Delta and Wadi Tumilat -- Northern Sinai -- The Oases -- The Mediterranean Coast -- Nubia -- Epiogue: Lost Cities

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