Budge's Egypt: A Classic 19th-century Travel GuideCourier Corporation, 2001 M01 1 - 311 pages Focusing on the monuments on either side of the Nile between Cairo and the Second Cataract, the author summarizes Egyptian history, describes Egyptians, their writing, and their religion and gods, plus historic sites, locales, and objects: Alexandria, Cairo, Heliopolis, Suez, Cleopatra's Needle, the Rosetta Stone, the pyramids, the Sphinx; the statue of Rameses II, the temples at Luxor and Karnak, major sites where royal mummies were discovered, and much more. |
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Contents
Abydos | 1 |
Egyptian History and its sources I | 9 |
Dates assigned to the Egyptian Dynasties by Egypto | 26 |
The Nile | 44 |
A list of some Hieroglyphic Signs | 61 |
The Pharos | 98 |
Suez and the Suez Canal | 104 |
Cairo | 112 |
Melâwi | 172 |
Temple of Seti I | 180 |
Nakadah | 189 |
Tomb of Seti I | 222 |
ElKâb | 228 |
The First Cataract | 237 |
Dabôd | 244 |
Dêrr | 250 |
Heliopolis | 131 |
The Sphinx | 144 |
The Temple of the Sphinx | 145 |
The Statue of Rameses II | 151 |
Mariettes House | 160 |
Minyeh | 166 |
List of the Hieroglyphic Names of the Principal | 257 |
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Abydos Alexandria Amenemḥāt Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Apis Arabic Aswân beautiful Bubastis building built Cæsar Cairo called Cambyses canal cataract century chamber Cheops Chephren church coffin columns Coptic Copts demotic Dêr Diodorus E. A. Wallis Budge east Egyptian history Empire Ethiopians excavated famous Fayûm feet high feet long gods granite Greek Hathor height Heliopolis Herodotus hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak king of Egypt Lake land large number lived lord Manetho Mariette Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Muḥammad Muhammedan mummy Museum Nile Nilometer Nubia obelisk Osiris papyrus priests Ptaḥ Ptolemy Ptolemy II pylon Rameses Rameses II reign represented river Roman Sakkârah sarcophagus sculptures Serapeum Seti side Sphinx statue stele stone stood Suez Sulțân Suten tablets temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tombs town Upper Egypt Usertsen walls west bank worshipped XIIth dynasty