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Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Volume 1: Including their Private Life, Government, Laws, Art, Manufactures, Relig
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Volume 1: Including their Private Life, Government, Laws, Art, Manufactures, Relig
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Gardner Wilkinson
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Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:454 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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Category/Genre | Egyptian archaeology and Egyptology |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781108066433
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
1 Plates, color; 3 Plates, black and white; 73 Line drawings, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
19 September 2013 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) first travelled to Egypt in 1821, the year before Champollion published his breakthrough work on the Rosetta Stone. As public interest in Egypt grew, Wilkinson studied and sketched the country's major archaeological sites, most notably the tombs of Thebes. His Topography of Thebes and General View of Egypt (1835) and Modern Egypt and Thebes (1843) are also reissued in this series. This well-illustrated three-volume work, first published in 1837, remained for over a century a key text on the lives of ancient Egyptians. Writing in a popular genre that was normally focused on contemporary societies, Wilkinson covers areas ranging from daily life to funerary beliefs. His imaginative approach underpinned the book's considerable success. Volume 1 addresses the physical and human geography of ancient Egypt, with a historical narrative up to the point of its conquest by Alexander the Great.
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