The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology |
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The monuments and remains of ancient Egypt preserved in the great museums of
Europe and Egypt are chiefly of a sepulchral character , and we owe them
entirely to the belief of the Egyptians that the soul would at some period revivify
the ...
... ( fragments of whose work πενταβιβλίον χρονολογικόν are preserved in
Eusebius ) there are given a list of Egyptian dynasties , and the number of the
years of the reign of each king . This list is one of the most valuable documents
which have ...
... before Christ . Menkaurā or Mykerinos is famous as the builder of the 3633
third pyramid at Gîzeh . The fragments of his inner wooden coffin and a small
fragment of his basalt sarcophagus are the oldest preserved in the British
Museum ...
The original is preserved in Berlin , and a facsimile was published by Lepsius ,
Denkmäler , Abth . VI . , Bl . 104 ff . Usertsen I . is famous as being the king who
set up 2433 obelisks at Heliopolis and who beautified that city by Rise of building
...
B . C . building of temples to the sun are preserved . Fragments of an obelisk set
up by this king still exist near the modern town of Begig in the Fayyûm , and
portions of inscriptions remain at Karnak , which show that he continued the
building ...
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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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