How long does it take to read The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt?
Toby A. H. Wilkinson
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby A. H. Wilkinson takes about 11 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 51 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 646 pages, about 177,650 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story of Ancient Egypt and the extraordinary civilisation that flourished along the banks of the River Nile can seem like a gorgeous pageant studded with exceptional events. Among them are the building of the pyramids, the conquest of Nubia, Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the life and death of Tutankhamun, the ruthlessness of Ramesses, Alexander the Great's invasion, and Cleopatra's fatal entanglement with Rome which led to the fall of Ptolemaic Egypt. But while three thousand years of pharaonic civilisation have all the ingredients of an epic novel - glittering courts, dynastic intrigues, murky assassinations and epic battles; individual stories of heroism and skulduggery, of triumph and tragedy; and, powerful women and tyrannical kings - the real historical story is even more surprising and far more interesting.
Subjects: Civilization, History
