Toby Wilkinson - English Egyptologist, Cambridge graduate, participated in excavations of the ancient Egyptian cities of Buto and Memphis. Currently an honorary member of the Department of Archeology at the University of Durham, he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Egyptian History. Ancient Egypt... Its history, spanning 3,000 years... In the Nile Valley, centuries succeeded centuries, dynasties succeeded other dynasties, and kingdoms succeeded other kingdoms... There was no statehood in human history that existed for such a long period without interruption... T. Wilkinson dedicated his book to the ups and downs of Ancient Egypt, in which the author tells us in detail the epic history of the great civilization - from its birth as the first national states until their final entry into the Roman Empire