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 ix
... seems probable that the be- ginnings of dynastic civilization are to be placed somewhere in the fourth millennium before Christ ; when the Neolithic Period began and ended is unknown . No exact dating is possible before the seventh ...
... seems probable that the be- ginnings of dynastic civilization are to be placed somewhere in the fourth millennium before Christ ; when the Neolithic Period began and ended is unknown . No exact dating is possible before the seventh ...
Page x
... seem never to have read the facts summarized by Dean Peacock , and therefore repeat the mistake made by their predecessors ... seems to me that , in order to discuss these subjects satisfactorily , a writer on them must posses not only a ...
... seem never to have read the facts summarized by Dean Peacock , and therefore repeat the mistake made by their predecessors ... seems to me that , in order to discuss these subjects satisfactorily , a writer on them must posses not only a ...
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... seem , more often than not , to have been foreigners . The inhabitants of the Nile Valley , from Uganda to the Mediterranean Sea , were from time immemorial a very mixed people , even as they are to - day , and for the greater number of ...
... seem , more often than not , to have been foreigners . The inhabitants of the Nile Valley , from Uganda to the Mediterranean Sea , were from time immemorial a very mixed people , even as they are to - day , and for the greater number of ...
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... 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 south and in the north , and that wherever they went they imposed their ...
... 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 south and in the north , and that wherever they went they imposed their ...
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... seems to have been Narmer , ( to call him by his " Horus name " 2 ) , who adopted , as " King of the South and North , " W 1 is usually said to represent a bee , but some entomologists think that the insect here drawn is a hornet or ...
... seems to have been Narmer , ( to call him by his " Horus name " 2 ) , who adopted , as " King of the South and North , " W 1 is usually said to represent a bee , but some entomologists think that the insect here drawn is a hornet or ...
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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