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CHAPTER

PAGE

PART I.—THE VALUE OF THE

TREASURY

I.

THE VALUE OF ARCHÆOLOGY

3

II.

THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE

26

THE NECESSITY OF ARCHÆOLOGY TO THE

III.

55

GAIETY OF THE WORLD

PART II.—STUDIES IN THE

TREASURY.

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IV.

THE TEMPERAMENT OF THE ANCIENT

81

EGYPTIANS

V.

THE MISFORTUNES OF WENAMON

112

VI.

THE STORY OF THE SHIPWRECKED SAILOR

138

PART III.—RESEARCHES IN THE

TREASURY.

VII.

RECENT EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT

165

VIII.

THE TOMB OF TIY AND AKHNATON

185

IX.

THE TOMB OF HOREMHEB

209

PART IV.—THE PRESERVATION OF

THE TREASURY.

X.

THEBAN THIEVES

239

XI.

THE FLOODING OF LOWER NUBIA

262

XII.

ARCHÆOLOGY IN THE OPEN

281

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATE

PAGE

A STATUE OF THE HAWK-GOD HORUS IN

FRONT OF THE TEMPLE OF EDFU. THE

Frontispiece

AUTHOR STANDS BESIDE IT

THE MUMMY OF RAMESES II. OF DYNASTY

I.

10

XIX.

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WOOD AND ENAMEL JEWEL-CASE

DISCOVERED IN THE TOMB OF YUAA AND

II.

TUAU. AN EXAMPLE OF THE FURNITURE OF

17

ONE OF THE BEST PERIODS OF ANCIENT

EGYPTIAN ART

HEAVY GOLD EARRINGS OF QUEEN

TAUSERT OF DYNASTY XX. AN EXAMPLE OF

III.

22

THE WORK OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN

GOLDSMITHS

IN THE PALM-GROVES NEAR SAKKÂRA,

IV.

36

EGYPT

V.

THE MUMMY OF SETY I. OF DYNASTY XIX.

48

A RELIEF UPON THE SIDE OF THE

SARCOPHAGUS OF ONE OF THE WIVES OF

KING MENTUHOTEP III., DISCOVERED AT

DÊR EL BAHRI (THEBES). THE ROYAL LADY

VI.

62

IS TAKING SWEET-SMELLING OINTMENT

FROM AN ALABASTER VASE. A

HANDMAIDEN KEEPS THE FLIES AWAY

WITH A BIRD'S-WING FAN.

LADY ROUGING HERSELF: SHE HOLDS A

VII.

71

MIRROR AND ROUGE-POT

DANCING GIRL TURNING A BACK

71

SOMERSAULT

TWO EGYPTIAN BOYS DECKED WITH

FLOWERS AND A THIRD HOLDING A

VIII.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. THEY ARE

82

STANDING AGAINST THE OUTSIDE WALL OF

THE DENDEREH TEMPLE

A GARLAND OF LEAVES AND FLOWERS

IX.

DATING FROM ABOUT B.C. 1000. IT WAS

94

PLACED UPON THE NECK OF A MUMMY

A RELIEF OF THE SAITIC PERIOD,

REPRESENTING AN OLD MAN PLAYING

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X.

UPON A HARP, AND A WOMAN BEATING A

100

DRUM. OFFERINGS OF FOOD AND FLOWERS

ARE PLACED BEFORE THEM

AN EGYPTIAN NOBLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH

DYNASTY HUNTING BIRDS WITH A

BOOMERANG AND DECOYS. HE STANDS IN

XI.

A REED-BOAT WHICH FLOATS AMIDST THE

108

PAPYRUS CLUMPS, AND A CAT RETRIEVES

THE FALLEN BIRDS. IN THE BOAT WITH HIM

ARE HIS WIFE AND SON

A REED BOX FOR HOLDING CLOTHING,

XII.

DISCOVERED IN THE TOMB OF YUAA AND

118

TUAU

A FESTIVAL SCENE OF SINGERS AND

XIII.

DANCERS FROM A TOMB-PAINTING OF

133

DYNASTY XVII.

XIV.

A SAILOR OF LOWER NUBIA AND HIS SON

144

A NILE BOAT PASSING THE HILLS OF

XV.

159

THEBES

THE EXCAVATIONS ON THE SITE OF THE

XVI.

166

CITY OF ABYDOS

EXCAVATING THE OSIREION AT ABYDOS. A

XVII.

CHAIN OF BOYS HANDING UP BASKETS OF

175

SAND TO THE SURFACE

THE ENTRANCE OF THE TOMB OF QUEEN

TIY, WITH EGYPTIAN POLICEMAN

XVIII.

186

STANDING BESIDE IT. ON THE LEFT IS THE

LATER TOMB OF RAMESES X.

TOILET-SPOONS OF CARVED WOOD,

DISCOVERED IN TOMBS OF THE

XIX.

EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY. THAT ON THE

192

RIGHT HAS A MOVABLE LID

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THE COFFIN OF AKHNATON LYING IN THE

XX.

207

TOMB OF QUEEN TIY

HEAD OF A GRANITE STATUE OF THE GOD

XXI.

KHONSU, PROBABLY DATING FROM ABOUT

217

THE PERIOD OF HOREMHEB

THE MOUTH OF THE TOMB OF HOREMHEB

AT THE TIME OF ITS DISCOVERY. THE

AUTHOR IS SEEN EMERGING FROM THE

XXII.

229

TOMB AFTER THE FIRST ENTRANCE HAD

BEEN EFFECTED. ON THE HILLSIDE THE

WORKMEN ARE GROUPED

A MODERN THEBAN FELLAH-WOMAN AND

XXIII.

240

HER CHILD

XXIV.

A MODERN GOURNAWI BEGGAR

250

THE ISLAND AND TEMPLES OF PHILÆ WHEN

XXV.

269

THE RESERVOIR IS EMPTY

A RELIEF REPRESENTING QUEEN TIY, FROM

THE TOMB OF USERHAT AT THEBES. THIS

RELIEF WAS STOLEN FROM THE TOMB, AND

XXVI.

282

FOUND ITS WAY TO THE BRUSSELS

MUSEUM, WHERE IT IS SHOWN IN THE

DAMAGED CONDITION SEEN IN PL. XXVII.

A RELIEF REPRESENTING QUEEN TIY, FROM

XXVII.

THE TOMB OF USERHAT, THEBES. (SEE PL.

293

XXVI.)