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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... importance than is usually attributed to them . Young was the first to realize the phonetic character of Egyptian hieroglyphs , and he was the first to obtain the correct values of several of them . Champollion adopted his methods and ...
... importance than is usually attributed to them . Young was the first to realize the phonetic character of Egyptian hieroglyphs , and he was the first to obtain the correct values of several of them . Champollion adopted his methods and ...
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... important , if it can be discovered , especially if it helps us to find out when the unification of Egypt under a king took place . " " One of the principal objects of every student of Egyptian Chronology is to find out when the first ...
... important , if it can be discovered , especially if it helps us to find out when the unification of Egypt under a king took place . " " One of the principal objects of every student of Egyptian Chronology is to find out when the first ...
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... importance that they had certainly never possessed at a remote period of antiquity . And quoting with approval Krall's remarks in his Stud . zur Gesch . d . alt . Aeg . I , he goes on to say that both the Sothic Period and the Phoenix ...
... importance that they had certainly never possessed at a remote period of antiquity . And quoting with approval Krall's remarks in his Stud . zur Gesch . d . alt . Aeg . I , he goes on to say that both the Sothic Period and the Phoenix ...
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... important events of his reign and incidentally supply much in- formation about the civilization of his time . Some of these record the name of the " seal - bearer of the King of the North , " No. 1 . No. 2 . No. 1. Wooden tablet of ...
... important events of his reign and incidentally supply much in- formation about the civilization of his time . Some of these record the name of the " seal - bearer of the King of the North , " No. 1 . No. 2 . No. 1. Wooden tablet of ...
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... important to note the early appearance of the name of the god Seker in the royal name Nefer - ka - Seker . Seker was the god of Death of the inhabitants of Memphis , and his name survives in a disguised form in Sakkarah , " by which ...
... important to note the early appearance of the name of the god Seker in the royal name Nefer - ka - Seker . Seker was the god of Death of the inhabitants of Memphis , and his name survives in a disguised form in Sakkarah , " by which ...
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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