The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary ArchaeologyUniversity Press, 1925 - 513 pages A discussion of funerary procedures in ancient Egypt, covering mummification, burial practices, ritual texts, tombs and coffins, and other topics, and including background on Egyptian history and religion, a chart of the hieroglyphic alphabet, and other resources. |
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... appears to have been the district between the Thebaïd and the Delta . It was called Heptanomis , and its seven nomes were Memphites , Herak- leopolites , Crocodilopolites , Aphroditopolites , Oxyrhynchites , Cyno- polites and ...
... appears to have been the district between the Thebaïd and the Delta . It was called Heptanomis , and its seven nomes were Memphites , Herak- leopolites , Crocodilopolites , Aphroditopolites , Oxyrhynchites , Cyno- polites and ...
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... appear to have been skilled in the art of working in metal , and the native armed with flint weapons went down before the metal battle - axe , club and dagger . At some time or other , probably during the Pre - dynastic Period , numbers ...
... appear to have been skilled in the art of working in metal , and the native armed with flint weapons went down before the metal battle - axe , club and dagger . At some time or other , probably during the Pre - dynastic Period , numbers ...
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... appears to have relied on the chronological scheme which Champollion - Figeac published in his Égypte Ancienne , Paris , 1835 , p . 269 , and which Lepsius proved to be impossible in his invaluable Königsbuch , which appeared at Berlin ...
... appears to have relied on the chronological scheme which Champollion - Figeac published in his Égypte Ancienne , Paris , 1835 , p . 269 , and which Lepsius proved to be impossible in his invaluable Königsbuch , which appeared at Berlin ...
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... appears to be one of the fundamental characteris- tics of the indigenous Egyptian , and it probably accounts for the persistence of the hieroglyphs in religious and ceremonial inscriptions down to the very end of the Dynastic Period ...
... appears to be one of the fundamental characteris- tics of the indigenous Egyptian , and it probably accounts for the persistence of the hieroglyphs in religious and ceremonial inscriptions down to the very end of the Dynastic Period ...
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... appears to represent the Tlas of Manetho.2 The next king , according to the Abydos List , was Sență , the Sethenes of Manetho , but the monuments mention a king of this period whose Horus name was Sekhem - åb , But according to some3 ...
... appears to represent the Tlas of Manetho.2 The next king , according to the Abydos List , was Sență , the Sethenes of Manetho , but the monuments mention a king of this period whose Horus name was Sekhem - åb , But according to some3 ...
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Abydos Åkerblad alphabet Åmen Amenḥetep amulet ancient Ani's Anubis bandages beetle body Book British Museum bronze Brugsch buried called cartouche chamber Champollion Chapter characters coffin colour contains Copt Coptic dead deceased demotic disk Egyptian Égyptiens embalming example faïence feet figures funerary glazed Gnostic goddess gods gold granite Greek Hathor head heart hieratic hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inches inscribed inscription Isis jars king Kingdom Lepsius linen London Lower Egypt Manetho Maspero maṣṭabah Memphis monuments mummy Nephthys Nile Nubia obelisk Osiris painted Papyrus Paris Pepi period placed prenomen priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pyramid Rameses Rameses II Recension rectangular reign represented Rosetta Stone Saïte sarcophagus says scarabs scribe Seti Shabti side stele Sûdân temple Theban Thebes thee Thothmes tomb translation Upper Egypt uraeus Usertsen Utchat vases Vignettes VIth wearing wooden words XIIth XIXth XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth δὲ καὶ