Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Volume 2 Wilkinson Paperback

Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Volume 2Including their Private Life, Government, Laws, Art, Manufactures, Religion, and Early History\nAuthor(s): John Gardner Wilkinson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108066440, 978-1108066440\nSynopsis\nA pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson [tel] 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 [tel] and Modern Egypt and Thebes [tel] 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 contempo.