British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century Volume I: Foundational Texts

Volume I: Foundation Texts

General Introduction 

Volume I Introduction

Part 1. Pyramids and Tombs

1. Giovanni Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia: And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea in Search of the Ancient Berenice, and of Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon (London: John Murray, 1820), pp. 136­­­–9, 255–74.

2. Richard Howard Vyse, Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With An Account of A Voyage into Upper Egypt, Vol. 1 (London: James Frazer, 1837), pp. 3–12, 83–8.

3. Alexander Henry Rhind, Thebes: Its Tombs and Their Tenants Ancient and Present Including A Record of Excavations in the Necropolis (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862), pp. 45–53.

4. Charles Piazzi Smyth. Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (London: Alexander Strahan and Co., 1864), pp. 1–10, 379–90.

5. Amelia Edwards, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1877), pp. 13–17.

Part 2. The Race to Decipher Hieroglyphs

6. Robert Deverell, Supplement to Notes on the Ancient Method of Treating the Fever of Andalusia, now called The Yellow Fever; deduced from an Explanation of the Hieroglyphics painted upon the Cambridge Mummy (London: S. Gosnell, 1806), pp. 1–3, 5–23.

7. William Richard Hamilton, Remarks on Several Parts of Turkey: Aegyptiaca, or some account of the antient and modern state of Egypt, as obtained in the years 1801, 1802 (London: T. Payne, 1809), pp. 434–9.

8. Thomas Young, An Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyhpical Literature and Egyptian Antiquities (London: John Murray, 1823), pp. 8–14, 39–46.

9. John Kenrick, Ancient Egypt Under the Pharaohs Vol. 1 (London: B. Fellowes, 1850), pp. 295–315.

Part 3. Fieldwork and Methods

10. Giovanni Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia: And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea in Search of the Ancient Berenice, and of Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon (London: John Murray, 1820), pp. 220–48.

11. Henry Salt, Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt, Esq., ed. J. J. Halls (London: Richard Bentley, 1834), pp. 489–502.

12. Flinders Petrie, ‘A Digger’s Life,’ The English Illustrated Magazine (March 1886), pp.  440–8.

13. Amelia Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891), pp. 12–30.

14. Margaret Benson and Janet Gourlay, The Temple of Mut in Asher (London: John Murray, 1899), pp. 13–26.

Part 4. Chronology of Ancient Egypt

15. John Gardner Wilkinson, ‘Chapter VIII: Chronology of the Kings of Egypt,’Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataract and Wadee Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London: John Murray, 1835), pp. 504–25.

16. A. J. Jukes Browne, ‘On Some Flint Implements from Egypt,’ Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 7 (1887), pp. 396–412.

17. Heinrich Brugsch-Bey, A history of Egypt under the pharaohs derived entirely from monuments, transl. Mary Brodrick (London: John Murray, 1891), pp. vii–ix, xix–xxviii, 359–63.

18. Henry G. Tomkins, ‘Chapter IV, The Egypt of Joseph,’ The Life and Times of Joesph in the Light of Egyptian Lore, Vol 17 of By-Paths of Ancient Knowledge, Second Edition (Oxford: Horace Hart, 1891), pp. 40–5.

Bibliography              

Index  

Biography

Kathleen L. Sheppard is Professor of history in the History and Political Science department at Missouri S&T, USA. She is also the Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society.