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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... Sometime Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum . Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences , Lisbon SECOND EDITION REVISED & GREATLY ENLARGED CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1925 DT 62 .M7B8 1925 ...
... Sometime Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum . Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences , Lisbon SECOND EDITION REVISED & GREATLY ENLARGED CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1925 DT 62 .M7B8 1925 ...
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... sometimes make mistakes . Brugsch was well acquainted with all that could be said in favour of the Sothic Period , and , as he was convinced that the use of the 1 Memphis and Mycenae , p . 57 . 2 Researches in Sinai , London , 1906 ...
... sometimes make mistakes . Brugsch was well acquainted with all that could be said in favour of the Sothic Period , and , as he was convinced that the use of the 1 Memphis and Mycenae , p . 57 . 2 Researches in Sinai , London , 1906 ...
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... sometimes dismembered , sometimes decapitated and sometimes burnt . In pre - dynastic times the dead were buried in the pre- natal position on their left sides , with the hands placed before their faces and their chins almost touching ...
... sometimes dismembered , sometimes decapitated and sometimes burnt . In pre - dynastic times the dead were buried in the pre- natal position on their left sides , with the hands placed before their faces and their chins almost touching ...
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... sometimes speaks plainly by means of the letters of the alphabet , and sometimes uses symbols , and when it uses symbols it some- times ( a ) speaks plainly by imitation , and sometimes ( b ) describes in a figurative way , and ...
... sometimes speaks plainly by means of the letters of the alphabet , and sometimes uses symbols , and when it uses symbols it some- times ( a ) speaks plainly by imitation , and sometimes ( b ) describes in a figurative way , and ...
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... sometimes speak in the common way by imitation and sometimes describe one thing by 1 Champollion , Précis , p . 278 . 2 Porphyry , De Vita Pythagorae , ed . Didot , § 11 , p . 89 , at the foot . another in accordance with certain secret ...
... sometimes speak in the common way by imitation and sometimes describe one thing by 1 Champollion , Précis , p . 278 . 2 Porphyry , De Vita Pythagorae , ed . Didot , § 11 , p . 89 , at the foot . another in accordance with certain secret ...
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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