Budge's Egypt: A Classic 19th-Century Travel Guide
(2012)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780486149530 (electronic bk.) MWT11605701, 0486149536 (electronic bk.) 11605701
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Focusing on the monuments on either side of the Nile, the author describes Egyptians, their writing, religion and gods, plus historic locales and objects: Alexandria, Cairo, the Rosetta Stone, the pyramids, the Sphinx; the statue of Rameses II, the temples at Luxor and Karnak, major sites where royal mummies were discovered, and more
Mode of access: World Wide Web