Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt

REVIEW BY ANNA GARNETT The Cambridge Elements: Ancient Egypt series delves into wider Egyptological themes and debates in fresh ways, beyond traditional approaches. Specialist authors collate primary source materials to illustrate complex themes in a way that readers can easily understand. In that spirit, this short volume explores the theme of famine in ancient Egypt through the lens of social memory. Drawing on a range of historical sources covering thousands of years of Egyptian history, from the pharaonic to the Ottoman periods, the author investigates how individual memories of communal tragedies are transmitted into collective social memory, and how this is reflected in modern s