Ebook A History of Ancient Egypt

The work here offered to the public, conceived and commenced in the year 1876, was designed to supply what seemed a crying need of English literature — viz., an account of Ancient Egypt, combining its antiquities with its history, addressed partly to the eye, and pre senting to the reader, within a reasonable compass, the chief points of Egyptian life — manners, customs, art, science, literature, religion — together with a tolerably full statement of the general course of historical events, whereof Egypt was the scene, from the foundation of the monarchy to the loss of independence. Existing English histories of Ancient Egypt were either slight.