New Light On Ancient Egypt

Author: G. Maspero, Elizabeth Lee (Translated by)

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ISBN : 2471720657993
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Complete with plates. Original cloth. Neat gilt crest to front board. A very good, complete copy of this rare work.

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The third impression of Elizabeth Lee's English language translation of French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero study of Egypt.

Illustrated with thirty-eight photographic plates. Collated, complete.

Published in the original French as 'Causeries d'Egypte' in 1907, Maspero's work discusses his observations about Ancient Egypt made over the course of fifteen years of excavations.

Chapters discuss a vast range of topics, from 'Egyptian Belief in Lucky and Unlucky Days' to 'The Tomb of Thebes', and from 'Mummies of Animals' to 'Egyptian Love Poetry'.

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