Front matter

Contents. List of Illustrations (In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] clicking on the image, will bring up a larger version.) Kings and Dynasties Named in This Volume Index (etext transcriber's note)

Portraits Painted in Wax, from Roman Mummies, Hawara.

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TEN YEARS’ DIGGING IN EGYPT 1881-1891

BY W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE AUTHOR OF ‘PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH,’ ‘HAWARA,’ ‘MEDUM,’ ETC. WITH A MAP AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS SECOND EDITION, REVISED THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 56 PATERNOSTER ROW, 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD AND 164 PICCADILLY 1893

‘In studying history, it must be borne in mind that a knowledge is necessary of the state of manners, customs, wealth, arts, and science at the different periods treated of. The text of civil history requires a context of this knowledge in the mind of the reader.’

Sir Arthur Helps on History.