Alun Buffry's From Dot to Cleopatra takes out the confusion and
presents the facts and the mystery in a plain-speaking guide which
takes the reader from year dot before the beginning of recorded
history to the time of Cleopatra's death. Thousands of years of
Egyptian culture, with special reference to the pyramids, are
recounted in a manner which does not baffle and assumes no
previous knowledge of this history. The author leads us comfortably
through a whole field of fact and theory recorded by antiquarians,
archaeologists, prehistorians, treasure and fame hunters, even a crank
or two! Here are the names, Nomes, Pharaohs, gods, kings, pyranmids,
obelisks, sphinxes and mummies, dynasty by dynasty; here too, the
legends, discoveries and great questions.