The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology |
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None of the researches which have been carried on by historians , philologists ,
anthropologists and archæologists has , up to the present , given us any
information from which we may reasonably hope to arrive at a decision as to the
time ...
He renewed the Egyptian rule over the Sinaitic peninsula , and the inscriptions at
Wady Ma ' arah show that copper mining was carried on there during his reign as
busily as ever . Among Pepi ' s staff was a young man called Unå , who had ...
... he appears to have lived some time at Tanis and to have had building
operations carried on there like Usertsen I . In the nineteenth year of this king ' s
reign Chnemu - ḥetep became governor of Menāt - Chufu , near Beni - hasân ,
an office ...
B . C . Egyptians strong hand , and he marched into that country , and did not
conquer Nubia . leave it until he had wasted the land , destroyed the crops and
carried off the cattle . In the labours of Usertsen III . to suppress these peoples we
...
Mighty public works like the Labyrinth and Lake Moeris had been successfully
carried out , an active trade was carried on with the natives of Punt , and with the
country to - day called Syria , and with the districts further east . Agriculture ...
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'The Mummy' is an amazing book because it's so much more than a description of how, why and when Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead. Look just through the contents and you'll be amazed at the range of material - as if Wallis Budge had emptied a sackful of knowledge for the learner to pick through. Because that's it's best use, a source book on Ancient Egypt - as long as you remember it's dated and some ideas rejected.
The first few pages introduce and include a list of the nomes (districts) in hieroglyphics and transcriptions. The pages on Egyptian chronology, as well as reviewing problems oof disagreement ammong both sources and scholars includes a useful list of rulers - although the real jewel here, following a good basic history, is a list of 2 of the 5 names available of Pharaohs (hieroglyphics & transcriptions); this is a must for any visitor to inscriptions in museums or Egypt itself. A clear history of the decipherment of hieroglyphics is followed by a useful list of hieroglyphs, useful that is for those looking at REAL inscriptions.Then the book gets into mummies IN DETAIL but beware as, for example when dealing with ushabti, Budge will throw at you a whole paragraph of (untranslated) hieroglyphics - after all, you did read everything before that, didn't you? Then anything and everything is on offer - stelae, coffins, draught-boards,the gods, graves, numbers ..... As I said above it is a book to dpp into and not to read from cover to cover. And that's why I give it 4 stars
PS It's by far the most USEFUL of my books on Ancient Egypt
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The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Limited preview - 1964 |
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| Title | The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology ATLA monograph preservation program |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0524010471, 9780524010471 |
| Length | 404 pages |
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