The Dwellers on the Nile
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The Dwellers on the Nile

The Life, History, Religion and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Dwellers on the Nile

The Life, History, Religion and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

About this book

In addition to his 40-year career at the British Museum, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was a prolific and popular author who specialized in books on ancient Egypt. The Dwellers on the Nile remains among the most comprehensive and readable histories of daily life in ancient Egypt, covering the Egyptian family and school; furniture, jewelry, food and drink; society, work, and play; Egyptian religion and its numerous gods, temples, and priests; Egyptian writing — hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Coptic; literature, medicine, astrology, and alchemy. The book concludes with an exploration of practices related to burial of the dead and beliefs concerning the afterlife.
Using information from the excavations of tombs and excerpts from papyri, tomb inscriptions, and other sources, Budge brings to life the ancient culture of the Nile dwellers. The text is profusely illustrated with many reproductions of Egyptian art and artifacts. The great wealth of detail, primary information, and original interpretation make this volume indispensable to students and other readers interested in classical civilization and comparative religion.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: Historical Outline
  7. The Cry of the Oppressed in Egypt
  8. I.—The Mother, the Family, the Home and the School
  9. II.—The Egyptian House and its Furniture, Food and Drink, Etc
  10. III.—Pharaoh and his Subjects
  11. IV.—The Egyptians at Work
  12. V.—Egyptian Temples, Gods and Priests
  13. VI.—Egyptian Writing
  14. VII.—The Wisdom of the Egyptians
  15. VIII.—The Egyptian Religion
  16. IX.—The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
  17. X.—The Egyptian Dead, Heaven and Hell, the Future Life
  18. XI.—Note On The Bull
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index