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Budge's Egypt : a classic 19th-century travel guide / E.A. Wallis Budge.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT45 .B9 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.
- Standardized Title:
- Nile
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Egypt--Guidebooks.
- Egypt.
- Nile River--Guidebooks.
- Nile River.
- Nile River Region.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Dover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2001.
- Summary:
- Focusing on the monuments on either side of the Nile between Cairo and the Second Cataract, the author summarizes Egyptian history, describes Egyptians, their writing, and their religion and gods, plus historic sites, locales, and objects: Alexandria, Cairo, Heliopolis, Suez, Cleopatra's Needle, the Rosetta Stone, the pyramids, the Sphinx; the statue of Rameses II, the temples at Luxor and Karnak, major sites where royal mummies were discovered, and much more.
- Contents:
- Egyptian History and its sources 1
- Historical Summary
- Ancient Empire 9
- Middle Empire 12
- New Empire 14
- Persians 17
- Macedonians 17
- Ptolemies 18
- Romans 19
- The Byzantines 21
- Muhammedans 23
- Dates assigned to the Egyptian Dynasties by Egyptologists 26
- The Country of Egypt 27
- The Nomes of Egypt 28
- The Ancient Egyptians 31
- The Modern Egyptians 35
- The Nile 44
- Egyptian Writing 49
- A list of some Hieroglyphic Signs 61
- Arabic Alphabet 67
- Coptic Alphabet 68
- Egyptian Months 69
- The Religion and Gods of Egypt 71
- Alexandria 97
- The Pharos 98
- Pompey's Pillar 101
- Cleopatra's Needles 101
- Catacombs 102
- Damanhur 102
- Kafr ez-Zaiyat 102
- Tanta 102
- Benha el-'Asal 102
- Rosetta Stone 103
- Suez and the Suez Canal 104
- Shibin el-Kanatir 108
- Zakazik and Tell-Basta 108
- Abu Hammad 111
- Tell el-Kebir 111
- Mahsamah 111
- Isma'iliya 111
- Nefisheh 111
- Cairo 112
- The Museum at Gizeh 113
- Coptic Churches 119
- Mosques 123
- Tombs of the Khalifs 127
- Tombs of the Mamelukes 128
- The Citadel 128
- Joseph's Well 129
- The Library 129
- Ezbekiyeh Garden 129
- The Nilometer at Roda 129
- Heliopolis 131
- The Pyramids of Gizeh 133
- The Great Pyramid 135
- The Second Pyramid 139
- The Third Pyramid 141
- The Sphinx 144
- The Temple of the Sphinx 145
- The Tomb of Numbers 145
- Campbell's Tomb 146
- The Pyramids of Abu-Roash 146
- The Pyramids of Abusir 146
- Bedrashen, Memphis, and Sakkarah 148
- The Statue of Rameses II. 151
- The Step Pyramid 152
- Pyramid of Unas 153
- Pyramid of Teta 153
- Pyramid of Pepi I. 154
- The Serapeum 155
- The Tomb of Thi 156
- Mariette's House 160
- The Pyramids of Dahshur 161
- The Quarries of Ma'sara and Turra 161
- The Pyramid of Medum 161
- Wasta and the Fayum 162
- Beni Suef 164
- Maghaghah 164
- Cynopolis 165
- Convent of the Pulley 165
- Minyeh 166
- Beni Hasan 167
- Roda 171
- Melawi 172
- Haggi Kandil 172
- Gebel Abu Fadah 173
- Manfalut 173
- Asyut 173
- Abu Tig 174
- Tahtah 175
- Suhak 175
- The White and Red Monasteries 175
- Ahmim, Menshiah, Girgeh 177
- Abydos 178
- Temple of Seti I. 180
- Temple of Rameses II. 182
- Farshut 184
- Kasr es-Sayyad 184
- Keneh 184
- The Temple of Denderah 185
- Nakadah 189
- Luxor and Thebes 191
- The Temple of Luxor 196
- The Temple at Karnak 197
- The Temple at Kurnah 208
- The Ramesseum 208
- The Colossi of Amenophis III. 210
- Medinet Habu 211
- The Temple of Rameses III. 213
- Der el-Medinet 215
- Der el-Bahari 216
- The Discovery of Royal Mummies at Der el-Bahari 216
- The Tombs of the Kings
- Tomb of Seti I. 222
- Tomb of Rameses III. 224
- Tomb of Rameses IV. 225
- Tomb of Rameses VI. 225
- Tomb of Rameses IX. 225
- Tomb of Rameses I. 225
- Tomb of Rechma Ra 225
- Erment 226
- Esneh 228
- El-Kab 228
- Edfu 228
- Hagar Silsieh 231
- Kom Ombo 231
- Aswan 233
- Elephantine 234
- The First Cataract 237
- Philae 238
- The Nile between the First and Second Cataracts 242
- Dabod 244
- Kardash 244
- Wadi Tafah 244
- Kalabshi 244
- Bet el-Wali 245
- Dendur 246
- Gerf-Hussen 246
- Dakkeh 246
- Wadi Sebua 248
- Korosko 249
- Amada 249
- Derr 250
- Abu-Simbel 250
- Wadi Halfah 255
- List of the Hieroglyphic Names of the Principal Kings of Egypt 257.
- Notes:
- Originally published: The Nile. London : T. Cook & Son, 1890.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0486417212
- OCLC:
- 46929204
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