Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge

Sheds light upon ancient Egyptian burial customs and beliefs pertaining to life after death

The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

The Book of the Dead

To obtain eternal life the ancient Egyptians believed the body, upon death, had to undergo a mummification or embalming process. The author gives an account of the history of ancient Egypt and describes the techniques used in mummification and the rituals and artefacts associated with this funereal rite. To the Egyptian, the embalming of a dead body acted as a barrier against decay and prepared it for the return of the soul (and thereafter everlasting life). As the author notes, great care was taken in the preparation of the tombs to repel attacks by demons; to ensure the mummy rested in comfort the tombs were decorated with familiar scenes and with everyday objects from the person's life. This volume will interest anyone wishing to understand not only the process of mummification but also the cultural background of a ritual upon which an entire civilization was built.

Funereal Rites & Customs in Ancient Egypt

The Mummy

Nine of the most interesting Egyptian legends in hieroglyphic texts with literal translations on facing pages. The Legend of Creation, The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind, 7 more. 19 illustrations.

Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations

Legends of the Egyptian Gods

Cook's Handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian Sûdân

A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII, B.C. 30: Egypt under Rameses the Great

An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, with Introduction, Notes, Etc.,

Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics

Egyptian Language

The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day: Chapters 65-152

An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, with Introduction, Notes, Etc

Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge

Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics with Sign List

Coptic Texts

Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria)

The Life of St. Anthony

At last, an English dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This monumental work was prepared by one of the foremost Egyptologists of the century. It contains nearly 28,000 words or terms that occur in hieroglyphic texts dating from the Third Dynasty through the Roman period, roughly from 3000 B.C. to 600 A.D. It is the only complete English dictionary available anywhere. For students, teachers, collectors, libraries, museums or anyone seriously interested in deciphering ancient Egyptian writings, magical formulas or inscriptions for themselves, this book is a must!Arranged alphabetically, each entry consists of the transliteration of the word, the word in hieroglyphs, the meaning in English, and often, a literary or other textual source where the word can be found. The entries in the 915-page main dictionary include all the gods and goddesses as well as other mythological beings, the principle kings of Egypt, and geographical names. Professor Budge also gives in the beginning a full list of the most frequently used hieroglyphic characters arranged, after the manner of printers' Egyptian-type catalogues, by pictorial similarity (men, women, gods and goddesses, parts of the body, animals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, plants, sacred vessels, weapons, measures, etc.) with phonetic values and meanings when used as determinatives and ideographs. Reference alphabets or syllabaries for Coptic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, Amharic and Persian cuneiform are also here.The secondary aids are quite extensive (over 550 pages worth) and most useful. In the second volume, there's an index of English words with 60,000 entries. This forms an extremely handy English-Egyptian glossary. Also included in this volume are hieroglyphic lists of royal and geographical names (with separate indexes to these lists), and indexes of Coptic and non-Egyptian words quoted in the dictionary itself (with a separate section for non-Egyptian geographical names).The long, scholarly and informative introduction outlines the history of the decipherment in Europe of Egyptian hieroglyphs and lexicography (citing such pioneers as Akerblad, Young, Champollion le Jeune, Birch, Lepsius, Brugsch, Chabas, Goodwin E. de Rougé, and others), explains the principles of the present work, and offers a full bibliography. Everything you need to study hieroglyphs is in these two volumes.

With an Index of English Words, King List, and Geographical List with Indexes, List of Hieroglyphic Characters, Coptic and Semitic Alphabets, Etc

An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary

Being Histories of the Anchorites, Recluses, Monks, Coonobbites, and Ascetic Fathers of the Deserts of Egypt, Between A.D. 250 and A.D. 400 Circ

Stories of the Holy Fathers

Coptic Texts: Coptic martyrdoms, etc., in the dialect of Upper Egypt

Coptic Texts Ed

A History of Ethiopia, Nubia & Abyssinai (according to the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Egypt and Nubia

(according to the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Egypt and Nubia, and the Ethiopian Chronicles)

A History of Ethiopia, Nubia & Abyssinia

E. A. Wallis Budge

Complete hieroglyphic renderings of two ancient "books of the underworld" which provided the dead with a guide their souls would need to make the journey from the world of the living to the "abode of the blessed." Ancient texts shed considerable light on the development of material and spiritual elements in Egyptian religion and on numerous primitive gods.

The Egyptian Heaven and Hell

Coptic Martyrdoms, Etc., in the Dialect of Upper Egypt

Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge

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