This is the second of three volumes exploring some of the most remarkable insights into Ancient Egypt to have come to light in modern times. The first two volumes deal with the Rosetta Stone, an outstanding archaeological discovery which has supplied the basis for Egyptian decipherment; the final volume explores the Stele of Canopus, discovered in 1866. The significance of the Rosetta Stone lies in the three different languages inscribed on it: Koine Greek, Demotic Egyptian, and, crucially, Hieroglyphic. This has facilitated a vast increase in our understanding of the sacred language of...

This is the third of three volumes exploring some of the most remarkable insights into Ancient Egypt to have come to light in modern times. The first two volumes deal with the Rosetta Stone, an outstanding archaeological discovery which has supplied the basis for Egyptian decipherment; the final volume explores the 'Stele of Canopus', discovered in 1866.

This is the second of three volumes, first published in 1906, which explore the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. It contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the short form of the 'Am-Tuat' and of the 'Book of Gates', with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations. In the 'Book of Gates' the doctrines of the sophisticated cult of Osiris are prominent: they affirm that the beatified live for ever in the kingdom of Osiris, and feed daily upon his eternal body. The object of all the 'Books of the Other World' was to provide the dead with a 'guide' or 'handbook, ' containing a...

This is the first of three volumes which explore the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. It contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the 'Book Am-Tuat', with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations. This text, at least in the form that we have it, was produced by the priests of Amen-Ra at Thebes, with the intention of demonstrating that their god was the overlord of all the gods, and the supreme power in the universe.

This is the third of three volumes, first published in 1906, which treat the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. This volume explores the origin of the 'Books of the Other World', highlighting and comparing the most remarkable features, with prefatory remarks and a full index to the whole work.

This, the first volume of Sir E.A. Wallis Budge's 'The History of Ethiopia', presents an account of Ethiopian history from the earliest legendary and mythic records up until the death of King Lebna Dengel in 1540. Using a vast range of sources - Greek and Roman reports, Biblical passages, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Ethiopian chronicles - an enthralling narrative history is presented with clarity.

This is the second volume of Sir E.A. Wallis Budge's narrative account of Ethiopian history, and continues the chronicle of the Kings of Abyssinia where the first volume ended: the death of Lebna Dengel in 1540. The list of kings ends with the Regent Ras Tafari, who still reigned at the time of first publication in 1928. Thereafter, the author devotes considerable attention to an overview of the cultural, social and political idiosyncrasies of the Ethiopian people: literature, spells and magic, architecture, ethnography, the alphabet, and a wide range of other engrossing topics.

A perusal of the texts of the Seven Tablets of Creation, which King was enabled, through the information contained in them, to analyze an arrange for the first time in their proper sequence.

E.A. Wallis Budge was an English philologist and writer who worked for the British museum. Budge wrote a lot on the ancient East after taking multiple trips to Egypt and the Sudan. This edition of Budge's Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism, and Egyptian Monotheism includes historical Egyptian images.