CHRONICLES OF THE QUEENS OF EGYPT --- FROM EARLY DYNASTIC TIMES TO THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA
by Joyce Tyldesley, Thames & Hudson, 2006
    PREFACE (6-7)

    INTRODUCTION --- Royal consorts and female kings (8-13)

    PREFACE (p6-7)

      1) THE FIRST QUEENS --- Dynasties 0-2 [3100-2650 BC] (24-35)

        Meritneith proves a woman capable of taking power (-)

        Special Features =

          [1] The women of Abydos (-)

          [2] The Goddess Neith (-)

      2) QUEENS OF THE PYRAMID AGE --- The "Old Kingdom" --- [2650-2125 BC] (36-63)

        From Hetepheres' tomb treasures to Khamerernebty and Khentkawes, wives of the great pyramid builders (-)

        Special Features =

          [1] Personal Hygiene (-)

          [2] Fit for a Queen --- the Treasures of Hetepheres I (-)

          [3] The Vulture Headdress and Uraeus (-)

      3) CHAOS AND REBIRTH --- the First Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period [2125-1539 BC] (64-85)

        Two dominant dynasties emerge --- Herakleopolis and Thebes; Prosperity returns and a female pharaoh reigns --- Sobeknefru; Invasion of the Hyksos --- Asiatic rule from Avaris in the Delta

        Special Features =

          [1] Wigs and hairdressing (-)

          [2] Women's health and childbirth (-)

          [3] The Lahun and Dahshur Treasures (-)

          [4] Women in literature (-)

          [5] The "double-plumbed" headdress (-)

      4) QUEENS OF THE EMPIRE --- The New Kingdom [1539-1069 BC] (86-171)

        Restoration of native Egyptian rule; reign of Hatshepsut; Tiy, influential wife of Amenotep III; Akhenaten and Nefertiti at Amarna; wives of the Ramesside period (-)

        Special Features =

          [1] The God's wife of Amun (-)

          [2] The Oracle (-)

          [3] The Royal Temple at Deir el-Bahari (-)

          [4] The Gurob Head of Queen Tiy (-)

          [5] Female Sphinxes (-)

          [6] The Berlin Head of Nefertiti (-)

          [7] Food (-)

          [8] Nefertari's painted tomb (-)

          [9] Personal names (-)

          [10] The women of Deir el-Medina (-)

          [11] Sexual etiquette (-)

      5) WEAKENED ROYAL POWER --- The Third Intermediate Period and Late Period [1079-332 BC] (172-187)

        The Delta dynasties of Tanis, Bubastis and Sais; intervention by the kings of Kush; conquest and reconquest by the Achaemenid Persians; Nubian interlude (-)

        Special Features = The burial of Maatkare (-)

      6) THE LAST QUEENS OF EGYPT --- the Macedonian and Ptolemaic Periods [332-30 BC] (188-209)

        Alexander the Great; Cleopatra and the Romans (-)

        Special Features =

          [1] What did Cleopatra look like? (-)

          [2] Cleopatra as Isis (-)

          [3] Cleopatra through the ages (-)

    CHRONOLOGY AND ROYAL COUPLES LIST (212-213)

    NOTES (214)

    SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (215-217)

    ILLUSTRATION CREDITS (218)

    INDEX (219-224)

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR (inside cover flap)

      Joyce Tyldesley is a writer and lecturer on Archaeology and Egyptology, who is an authority on Egyptian queens and who has written biographies of Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra.

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