The Mummy

Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge

Collier Books, 1972 - Egypt - 404 pages

Contents

• The Land of Egypt: 1
• Egyptian Chronology: 10
• The History of Egypt Dynasties I XXX: 18

About the author

E.A. Wallis Budge, 1857 - 1934 Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920. E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mummy; Collier books
• Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Collier Books, 1972
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jul 22, 2009
• ISBN: 0020307608, 9780020307600
• Length: 404 pages