# A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum

Author: British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities; Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76000

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## Summary

The =Land of Egypt= is situated in the north-east shoulder of the continent of Africa, and in the earliest times it consisted of that portion of the Nile Valley which lay between the Mediterranean Sea and the northern end of the First Cataract; the Island of Ābu, or Elephantine, and the town of Sunnu, or Sunt, the Syene of classical writers and the Sewênêh of the Bible (Ezekiel xxix, 10), forming the southern boundary of the country. The northern limit of Egypt has, in historic times, always been the Mediterranean Sea, but its southern limit varied considerably at different periods. Under the Vth dynasty, about B.C. 3600, it was marked by Elephantine and Syene. Under the XIIth dynasty, ab...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter CLXXII). In another passage it is said of this same god: “He is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.—THE COUNTRY OF EGYPT 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-guide-to-the-egyptian-collections-in-the-british-museum-76000/chapters/1/index.md)