The History of Egypt

Abstract

IT is now twenty years since Egypt last changed masters, and the completion of these twenty years of British rule has been marked by the completion of a work of public utility, the great dam at Aswân, which will surpass any similar work carried out in the days of the Pharaohs. Simultaneously is published the fullest and most complete English history of Egypt under her ancient native monarchs, from the earliest times to the end of the native kingdom, a period of more than four thousand years. The publication consists of eight small and very handy volumes, all profusely illustrated with photographs and line-drawings of temples, tombs, mummies and other antiquities of the various periods, which are treated in succession. Dr. Budge may be congratulated on the production at a most opportune moment of this work, which should find a place on the shelves of everyone who is interested in the past history of the famous land which we have taken under our protection.

A Hisiory of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII., B.C. 30.

8 vols., illustrated. Books on Egypt and Chaldæa, vols. ix–xvi. By E. A. Wallis Budge., Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum. (London: Keg an Paul and Co., Ltd., 1902.) Price 3s. 6d. per vol.