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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Page vii
... collection of Egyptian antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum was in 1892 comparatively small , and many classes of funerary antiquities were not represented in it . When it was decided to print the Introduction in a separate volume ...
... collection of Egyptian antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum was in 1892 comparatively small , and many classes of funerary antiquities were not represented in it . When it was decided to print the Introduction in a separate volume ...
Page ix
... collected by Dean Peacock and printed in his Life of Thomas Young , London , 1855 , and the extracts from contemporary letters and papers on the subject given by Leitch in his edition of the b Miscellaneous Works by the late Thomas ...
... collected by Dean Peacock and printed in his Life of Thomas Young , London , 1855 , and the extracts from contemporary letters and papers on the subject given by Leitch in his edition of the b Miscellaneous Works by the late Thomas ...
Page xi
... Collection , because the British Museum is open to the public for several hours daily , to say nothing of Sundays , and collectors and students can see and study the objects exhibited there without let or hindrance . My thanks are due ...
... Collection , because the British Museum is open to the public for several hours daily , to say nothing of Sundays , and collectors and students can see and study the objects exhibited there without let or hindrance . My thanks are due ...
Page 18
... collections of Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum , and whose duties have made it necessary for him to handle them daily . His principal dates are as follows : - Beginning of the Old Kingdom Great Pyramid Built ( IVth dynasty ) ...
... collections of Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum , and whose duties have made it necessary for him to handle them daily . His principal dates are as follows : - Beginning of the Old Kingdom Great Pyramid Built ( IVth dynasty ) ...
Page 38
... collected his fleet and his army and sailed down to Herakleopolis and re - established Kamerirā in his kingdom . But meanwhile the power of the princes of Thebes was becoming great , and there came a day when they marched to the north ...
... collected his fleet and his army and sailed down to Herakleopolis and re - established Kamerirā in his kingdom . But meanwhile the power of the princes of Thebes was becoming great , and there came a day when they marched to the north ...
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