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"Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders" from Thomas Eric Peet. English Egyptologist (1882-1934).

Eric Peet (1882-1934) is better known as an Egyptologist, but this, his 1909 first published work, remained the standard reference on its subject for many years. Gaining a Craven Scholarship from Oxford, he spent three years exploring Italian and Maltese sites, but later found work on Egyptian excavations (his co-authored publication on The Cemeteries of Abydos is also reissued in this series). This book is organised chronologically from the palaeolithic period to the Bronze Age, and, as Peet points out in his preface, pulls together not only his own research but the earlier work of Italian...

Originally published between 1913 and 1914 for the Egypt Exploration Fund, these three excavation reports relating to the necropolis at Abydos are now reissued together in one volume. Following the important work carried out by Flinders Petrie - his two reports on The Royal Tombs (1900 1) and the three-part Abydos (1902 4) are also reissued in this series - Edouard Naville (1844 1926) began further excavation and recording of the site's cemeteries with Thomas Eric Peet (1882 1934) and others. Each report contains a section of valuable illustrative material, such as photographs and drawings of...