1 (p. 34). Sir J. Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy; a study of the
temple worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians, London, 1894.
2 (p. 43). G. Maspero, Histoire Ancie-nne 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.
3 (p. 44). Adolf Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, London, 1894, p.
352. (Translated from the original German work entitled Aegypten
und aegyptisches Leben in Alterthum, Tilbigen, 1887.) An altogether
admirable work, full of interest for the general reader, though based on
the most erudite studies.
4 (p. 47). Erman, op. cit., pp. 356, 357.
5 (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.
6 (p. 49). Erman, op. cit., p. 357.
7 (p. 50). The History of Herodotus, pp. 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.
8 (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.
9 (p. 51). Erman, op. cit., p. 357.
10 (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 H., Nebesheh, and Defe-nnel, 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 archaeology.