PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
KINGS AND DYNASTIES NAMED IN THIS VOLUME
CHAPTER I. THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH. 1881-2.
CHAPTER II. TANIS. 1884
CHAPTER III. NAUKRATIS. 1885
CHAPTER IV. DAPHNAE TAHPANHES. 1886
CHAPTER V. NEBESHEH. 1886
CHAPTER VI. UP THE NILE. 1887
CHAPTER VII. HAWARA. 1888
CHAPTER VIII. ILLAHUN. 1889-90.
CHAPTER IX. GUROB. 1889-90.
CHAPTER X. MEDUM. 1891
CHAPTER XI. THE FRESH LIGHT ON THE PAST.
CHAPTER XII. THE ART OF EXCAVATING.
CHAPTER XIII. THE FELLAH.
CHAPTER XIV. THE ACTIVE TRIPPER IN EGYPT.
ADDENDA TO BAEDECKER'S VOCABULARY
INDEX ( Including a reference to each Illustration .)
TEN YEARS’ DIGGING
IN EGYPT
1881-1891
BY
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
AUTHOR OF ‘PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH,’ ‘HAWARA,’ ‘MEDUM,’ ETC.
WITH A MAP
AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
SECOND EDITION, REVISED
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
56 PATERNOSTER ROW, 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD
AND 164 PICCADILLY
1893
‘In studying history, it must be borne in mind that a knowledge is necessary of the state of manners, customs, wealth, arts, and science at the different periods treated of. The text of civil history requires a context of this knowledge in the mind of the reader.’
Sir Arthur Helps on History.
