Egypt
_The cemeteries of Gizeh and Saqqâra: the Great Sphinx; the mastabas, their chapel and its decoration, the statues of the double, the sepulchral vault--Importance of the wall-paintings and texts of the mastabas in determining the history of the Memphite dynasties._
At that time “the Majesty of King Huni died, and the Majesty of King Snofrûi arose to be a sovereign benefactor over this whole earth.” All that we know of him is contained in o...
2. CHAPTER I--THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPTBetween the Fayûm and the apex of the Delta, the Lybian range expands and forms a vast and slightly undulating table-land, which runs parallel to the Nile for nearly thirty leag...
6. CHAPTER III--THE FIRST THEBAN EMPIREThe principality of the Oleander--Nârû--was bounded on the north by the Memphite nome; the frontier ran from the left bank of the Nile to the Libyan range, from the neighbourhoo...
1. Volume II., Part A._The cemeteries of Gizeh and Saqqâra: the Great Sphinx; the mastabas, their chapel and its decoration, the statues of the double, the sepulchral vault--Importance of the wall-pa...
5. Volume II., Part ._The principality of Heracleopolis: Achthoës-Khîti and the Heracleopolitan dynasties--Supremacy of the great barons: the feudal fortresses, El-Kab and Abydos; ceaseless warfare,...
3. Volume II., Part B._Snofrûi--The desert which separates Africa from Asia: its physical configuration, its inhabitants, their incursions into Egypt, and their relations with the Egyptians--The peni...