MANUAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

AND

Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt.

FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS AND TRAVELLERS.

BY
G. MASPERO, D.C.L. OXON.
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE;
PROFESSOR AT THE COLLÈGE DE FRANCE;
EX-DIRECTOR GENERAL OF EGYPTIAN MUSEUMS.

TRANSLATED BY

AMELIA B. EDWARDS.

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR.

With Three Hundred and Nine Illustrations.

1895.

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH AND REVISED EDITION.

Notwithstanding the fact that Egyptology is now recognised as a science,an exact and communicable knowledge of whose existence and scope it behovesall modern culture to take cognisance, this work of M. Maspero stillremains the Handbook of Egyptian Archaeology. But Egyptology is as yet inits infancy; whatever their age, Egyptologists will long die young. Everyyear, almost every month, fresh material for the study is found, freshlight is thrown upon it by the progress of excavation, exploration, andresearch. Hence it follows that, in the course of a few years, the standardtext-books require considerable addition and modification if they are to beof the greatest value to students, who must always start from the foremostvantage-ground.

The increasing demand for the Egyptian Archaeology by English andAmerican tourists, as well as students, decided the English publishers toissue a new edition in as light and portable a form as possible. Thisedition is carefully corrected, and contains the enlarged letterpress andmany fresh illustrations necessary for incorporating within the bookadequate accounts of the main archaeological results of recent Egyptianexcavations. M. Maspero has himself revised the work, indicated all thenumerous additions, and qualified the expression of any views which he hasseen reason to modify in the course of his researches during the past eightyears. By the headings of the pages, the descriptive titles of theillustrations, and a minute revision of the index, much has been done tofacilitate the use of the volume as a book of reference. In that capacityit will be needed by the student long after he first makes acquaintancewith its instructive and abundant illustrations and its luminouscondensation of the archaeological facts and conclusions which have beenelucidated by Egyptology through the devotion of many an arduous lifetimeduring the present century, and, not least, by the unremitting labours ofM. Maspero.

April, 1895.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.