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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... give a nearly connected account of the history of the country from the late Neolithic to the Roman Period . Comparatively little has been done to clear away the difficulties that beset every attempt to formulate a system of Chronology ...
... give a nearly connected account of the history of the country from the late Neolithic to the Roman Period . Comparatively little has been done to clear away the difficulties that beset every attempt to formulate a system of Chronology ...
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... is forty - two , like that of the Assessors in the Judgment Hall of Osiris - twenty - two in Upper and twenty in Lower Egypt . Classical writers give varying numbers . Diodorus , 4 . who says the nome dates from the time 2 THE LAND OF ...
... is forty - two , like that of the Assessors in the Judgment Hall of Osiris - twenty - two in Upper and twenty in Lower Egypt . Classical writers give varying numbers . Diodorus , 4 . who says the nome dates from the time 2 THE LAND OF ...
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... gives their number as thirty - six ( I , 54 ) , Pliny , who calls them praefecturas oppidorum ( V , 9 , 9 ) , gives their number as forty - five , and some writers enumerate forty - seven . The Greeks divided Egypt into three parts ...
... gives their number as thirty - six ( I , 54 ) , Pliny , who calls them praefecturas oppidorum ( V , 9 , 9 ) , gives their number as forty - five , and some writers enumerate forty - seven . The Greeks divided Egypt into three parts ...
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... give us an idea of the physical form and characteristics only of the better - class folk who lived in that district in the late Neolithic Period , for only they were " buried " ; but of the great mass of the working and peasant classes ...
... give us an idea of the physical form and characteristics only of the better - class folk who lived in that district in the late Neolithic Period , for only they were " buried " ; but of the great mass of the working and peasant classes ...
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... give human bodies to their bird gods , animal gods , and reptile gods . It seems that these invaders first made their way into Upper Egypt , and that having settled themselves there they invaded other parts of the country , both in the ...
... give human bodies to their bird gods , animal gods , and reptile gods . It seems that these invaders first made their way into Upper Egypt , and that having settled themselves there they invaded other parts of the country , both in the ...
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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