Classic: Egypt

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GURPS Egypt

Classic: Egypt (1998, 2004) covers 5,000 years of Egyptian history.

Egyptian Life

• The Two Lands
• Everyday Affairs

Pharaohs and Conquerors

Pre Dynastic Egypt: 5500-3150 B.C

• The Dating Problem

The Old Kingdom: 2686-2184 B.C.

See Also The Pyramids

• The IIIrd Dynasty: The Invention of the Pyramid
• The IVth Dynasty: The Pyramid Builders
• The Vth Dynasty: Prophecy of the Sun-Kings
• The VIth Dynasty: The Decline of the Old Kingdom

• Plan of the Great Pyramid

The First Intermediate Period: 2184-2040 B.C.

• The VIIth & VIIIth Dynasties: 70 Kings In 70 Days
• The IXth & Xth Dynasties: Union and Disunion

The Middle Kingdom: 2040-1782 B.C.

• The XIth Dynasty: Peace and Prosperity
• XIIth Dynasty: The Co-Rulers

The Second Intermediate Period: 1782-1570 B.C.

• The XIIIth & XIVth Dynasties: Prelude to Disaster
• The XVth, XVIth & XVIIth Dynasties: Disaster

The New Kingdom: 1570-1070 B.C.

See also: Akhenaten

• The XVIIIth Dynasty: Empire to Atenism

The Third Intermediate Period: 1069-525 B.C.

• The XXIst Dynasty: Division and Sacrilege
  • Egypt in the Bible
• The XXIIth Dynasty: The Empire’s Last Gasp
• The XXIIIrd & XXIVth Dynasties: Divide and Conquer
• The XXVth Dynasty: The Nubian Pharaohs
  • Ptolemy I Collects Taxes
• The XXVIth Dynasty: The Saïte Pharaohs

The Late Period: 525-332 B.C.

• The XXVIIth Dynasty: The Persian Pharaohs
  • The Pharos Lighthouse
• The XXVIIIth, XXIXth & XXXth Dynasties: Short-Lived Freedom
• The XXXIst Dynasty: The Second Persian Period

The Ptolemaic Period: 332-30 B.C.

• The Macedonian Dynasty: Alexander’s Empire
  • Cleopatra and Herod
• The Ptolemaic Dynasty: The Final Decline
  • The Rosetta Stone
  • King Tut’s Tomb

Characters

• Appearance, Character Types, Advantages, Disadvantages, Skills, Starting Wealth, and Job Table

The Supernatural

See also Egyptian Myth

• Magic; spells - collected into Books.
• True Names
• Death of Afterlife

Egyptian Bestiary

• Natural Creatures
• Supernatural Creatures: Ghosts, Hawks, Mummies, Set Beast, and Snakes

Reign of the Gods

• In the Beginning was Disagreement
• Osiris: King of Earth and the Afterlife

The Egyptian Campaign

• Long-term Goals
• Campaign Considerations
• Sponsors
• Adventures
  • The Abou
  • The Nefertep Dynasty
  • Thief Upon the Sand
  • Orkaht’s Tomb
  • The Serpent’s Lair
  • Scholars’ Mousetrap

Notes

• Despite being a Pharaoh of the XVIIIth Dynasty Tutankhamun' tomb is listed under the Ptolemaic Period.
• Land of the Pharaohs (1955) - fictionalized story of the building of the Great Pyramid. A method of using sand to seal a pyramid was actually used by the somewhat obscure 13th dynasty (c 1700 BCE) Pharaoh Khenjer

Additional Material

• List of Pharaohs (wikipedia)
• Ancient Egypt (1895) by Arthur Gilman and George Rawlinson
• Macaulay, David (1975) Pyramid; also done as an hour long film in 1982 which is a far more realistic view on the building of the Great Pyramid then Land of the Pharaohs though it too has fictional elements.
• History Re-Summarized: Egypt
• What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know
• Miscellaneous Myths (Overly Sarcastic Productions)
  • Legends Summarized: Underworld Myths (Egyptian part)
  • Sekhmet/The Eye of Ra
  • The Journey Of Ra
• History Summarized (Overly Sarcastic Productions)
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Akhenaten
  • Ramses The Great
  • Cleopatra
• Bronze Age Collapse: Before the Storm, The Wheel and the Rod, Fire and Sword, Systems Collapse
• The Sea Peoples & The Late Bronze Age Collapse // Ancient History Documentary (1200-1150 BC)