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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... seen by Pedro Paez in 1615 , by Jeronimo Lobo in 1626 , and by Bruce in 1772. Salîm , an Egyptian officer , ascended the White Nile as far as Gondokoro about 1840 . Lake Victoria was discovered by J. H. Speke in 1858 ; Sir William ...
... seen by Pedro Paez in 1615 , by Jeronimo Lobo in 1626 , and by Bruce in 1772. Salîm , an Egyptian officer , ascended the White Nile as far as Gondokoro about 1840 . Lake Victoria was discovered by J. H. Speke in 1858 ; Sir William ...
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... seen in the British Museum , No. 2437 ff . • Cory , op . cit . , p . 113 . Thus in the XIth dynasty , Antef couples his name with that of Hertaṭaf . See Budge , Gods of the Egyptians , Vol . I , p . 522 ff . , and Sethe , Imhotep ...
... seen in the British Museum , No. 2437 ff . • Cory , op . cit . , p . 113 . Thus in the XIth dynasty , Antef couples his name with that of Hertaṭaf . See Budge , Gods of the Egyptians , Vol . I , p . 522 ff . , and Sethe , Imhotep ...
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... seen in our great museums.1 In Memphis , which was the chief seat of his cult , he was declared to be the son of Ptah and the goddess Sekhmit . An inscription cut on a granite boulder on the Island of Sahil in the First Cataract states ...
... seen in our great museums.1 In Memphis , which was the chief seat of his cult , he was declared to be the son of Ptah and the goddess Sekhmit . An inscription cut on a granite boulder on the Island of Sahil in the First Cataract states ...
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... seen . He returned to Thebes with the body of the Nubian chief , whom he had slain , hanging head downwards from the bows of his boat . He next led an expedition into Syria and marched as far north as the country of the great rivers ...
... seen . He returned to Thebes with the body of the Nubian chief , whom he had slain , hanging head downwards from the bows of his boat . He next led an expedition into Syria and marched as far north as the country of the great rivers ...
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... seen by Thothmes III . He devoted a large share of his spoil to the repairs of the temples throughout the land , and he built a splendid pylon at Karnak in the temple of Amen , and set up two granite obelisks there in honour of Amen ...
... seen by Thothmes III . He devoted a large share of his spoil to the repairs of the temples throughout the land , and he built a splendid pylon at Karnak in the temple of Amen , and set up two granite obelisks there in honour of Amen ...
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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