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Notes
(p. 34). Sir J. Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy; a study of the temple worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians, London, 1894.
(p. 43). G. Maspero, Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l'Orient Classique , Paris, 1895. Translated as (1) The Dawn of Civilization, (2) The Struggle of the Nations, (3) The Passing of the Empires, 3 vols., London and New York, 1894-1900. Professor Maspero is one of the most famous of living Orientalists. His most important special studies have to do with Egyptology, but his writings cover the entire field of Oriental antiquity. He is a notable stylist, and his works are at once readable and authoritative.
(p. 44). Adolf Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, London, p. 303.
(p. 48). Erman, op. cit., p. 357. The work on Egyptian medicine here referred to is Georg Ebers' edition of an Egyptian document discovered by the explorer whose name it bears. It remains the most important source of our knowledge of Egyptian medicine. As mentioned in the text, this document dates from the eighteenth dynasty—that is to say, from about the fifteenth or sixteenth century, B.C., a relatively late period of Egyptian history.
(p. 50). The History of Herodotus, II., 85-90. There are numerous translations of the famous work of the "father of history,'' one of the most recent and authoritative being that of G. C. Macaulay, M.A., in two volumes, Macmillan & Co., London and New York, 1890.
(p. 50). The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, London, 1700. This most famous of ancient world histories is difficult to obtain in an English version. The most recently published translation known to the writer is that of G. Booth, London, 1814.
(p. 52). The Papyrus Rhind is a sort of
mathematical hand-book of the ancient Egyptians; it was made in
the time of the Hyksos Kings (about 2000 B.C.), but is a copy
of an older book. It is now preserved in the British Museum.
The most accessible recent sources of information as to the
social conditions of the ancient Egyptians are the works of
Maspero and Erman, above mentioned; and the various publications
of W. M. Flinders Petrie, The Pyramids and Temples
of Gizeh, London, 1883; Tanis I., London, 1885;
Tanis II., Nebesheh, and Defennel,
London, 1887; Ten Years' Diggings, London, 1892; Syria and
Egypt from the Tel-el-Amar-na Letters, London, 1898, etc.
The various works of Professor Petrie, recording his explorations
from year to year, give the fullest available insight into
Egyptian archæology.
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