Notes For Travellers In Egypt / Edition 1

by E.A. Wallis Budge

Overview

First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780710309549
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2008
Series:	The Kegan Paul Library of Ancient Egypt Series)
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	706
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

E. A. Wallis Budge, author of many books on Egyptology, was once Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian antiques in the British Museum.

Table of Contents

Map of Egypt, Introduction, Preface to the Seventh Edition, Excavations in 1901-02, Egyptian History and its sources, Historical Summary, Dates assigned to the Egyptian Dynasties by Egyptologists, Progress in Egypt under British Rule, The Country of Egypt, The Nomes of Egypt, The Ancient Egyptians, The Nile, The Oases, Ancient Egyptian Buildings, Sculpture, Painting, dc., Egyptian Writing, A list of some Hieroglyphic Signs, Arabic Alphabet, Coptic Alphabet, Egyptian Months, The Religion and Gods of Egypt, The Modern Egyptians, Sketch of Coptic History, The Arabs, Muhammad, etc, Alexandria, Damanhur, Kafr ez-Zaiyat, Tanta, Benha el-'Asal, Rosetta Stone, Suez and the Suez Canal, Cairo, Heliopolis, The Pyramids of Gizeh, The Sphinx, The Temple of the Sphinx, The Tomb of Numbers, Campbell's Tomb, The Pyramids of Abu-Roash, The Pyramids of Abusir, Bedrashen, Memphis, and Sakkarah, The Statue of Rameses II., The Step Pyramid, The Tomb of Thi, Mariette's House, The Pyramids of DahshUr, The Quarries of Ma'sara and Turra, The Pyramid of Medum, Upper Egypt Railway, Wasta and the Fayyum, The White and Red Monasteries, Akhmim, Menshiah, Girgeh, Abydos … Part/contents. Roda Gauge, Index