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
Volume II: Travel Writing
General Introduction
Volume II Introduction
Part 1. Egypt as a Health Resort
1. Alexander Henry Rhind, Egypt: Its climate, character and resources as a winter resort (Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1856), pp. 1–9, 15–18, 80–8, 90–106, 113–8.
2. Lucie Duff Gordon, Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt, Revised ed. Edited by Janet Ross (London: Messers. MacMillan & Co, 1865; London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1902), pp. 24–6, 60–3, 109–12, 121–4, 278, 379–83.
3. Fleming Sandwith, Egypt as a Winter Resort (London: Kegan Paul, 1889), pp. v–vi, 1–8, 11.
4. Maggie Benson, Life and Letters of Maggie Benson, ed. A.C. Benson (London: John Murray, 1917), pp. 185–6, 198–201, 203–5.
Part 2. The Colonial Administration
5. Sophia Lane Poole, The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo, Vol 1 (London: Charles Knight & Co., 1844), pp. i, v–vi, 107–23, 206–18.
6. The Earl of Cromer, Modern Egypt (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1908), 1–8, 281–99, 388–95.
7. Edward Herbert Cecil, The Leisure of an Egyptian Official (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921), pp. iii–vi, xix, 11–22, 89–100, 115–30.
Part 3. Thomas Cook's Tourists
8. John Gardner Wilkinson, Hand-book for travellers in Egypt: including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, &c. (London: John Murray, 1847), pp. 1–7, 43–4.
9. Harriet Martineau, Eastern Life, Present and Past, Vol. 1 (London: Edward Moxon, 1848), pp. 80–9, 284–91.
10. Karl Baedeker, ed. Egypt. Handbook for Travellers: Lower Egypt, with the Fayûm and the Peninsula of Sinai (Leipsic: Karl Baedeker; London: Dulau & Co., 1878), pp. 1–29.
11. H. M. and N. Tirard, ‘Down the Nile from Aboo-Simbel to Karnack’, Sketches from a Nile Steamer for the Use of Travellers in Egypt (London: Kegan Paul, 1891), pp. 162–71.
12. Thomas Cook & Son, Cook’s Tourists’ Handbook for Egypt, the Nile and the Desert (London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1897), pp. iii–iv, 1–2, 4–22.
Part 4. Archaeologists as Travelers
13. Henry Salt, A Descriptive Poem with Notes by a Traveller (Alexandria: European Press, 1824), pp. 23–36.
14. Percy Newberry, ‘The Archaeological Survey, 1892–1893, Report for the Committee.’ Egypt Exploration Society Archives, EESIa2.
15. W. M. Flinders Petrie, Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt, 1881-1891 Second ed., revised (London: Religious Tract Society, 1893), 187–96.
16. Letters to the Egypt Exploration Fund
W.E. Kingsford to Emily Paterson, 12 November 1894, EES XI 1894-99, XId14;
Thos. Cook & Son to Emily Paterson, 16 February 1895, EES XI 1894-99, XId28
17. Letters to the Egypt Exploration Fund
David Hogarth to Herbert A. Grueber, 5 March 1895, EES XI 1894-99, Xid30
David Hogarth to Herbert A. Grueber, 24 March 1895, EES XI 1894-99, Xid30
Bibliography
Index
Volume III: Museums
General Introduction
Volume III Introduction
Part 1. Collectors and Collecting
1. Henry Abbott, Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, the property of Henry Abbott, MD, no exhibiting at the Stuyvestant Institute, New York (New York: J. W. Harrison, 1854), pp. i–viii, 5–16.
2. Alexander Henry Rhind, ‘How the Demand for Egyptian Relics has been Supplied…’ 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. 242–74.
3. Robert J. A. Hay and Joseph Bonomi, Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Belonging to the Late Robert Hay, Esq., of Linplum (London: Thomson & Pinder, 1869), pp. 110–23.
Part 2. Private Collections
4. Thomas Hope, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration Executed from Designs (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), pp. 1–18, 26–7.
5. William John Bankes, Geometrical Elevation of an Obelisk from the Island of Philae (London: John Murray, 1821).
6. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, A history of Egyptian mummies :and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c. (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834), pp. 227–30.
Part 3. Private to Public
7. William Bullock, A Companion To The Liverpool Museum, Containing A Brief Description Of Upwards Of Four Thousand Of Its Natural & Foreign Curiosities, Antiquities & Productions Of The Fine Arts. Seventh Edition (Liverpool: Liverpool Museum, 1809), pp. ii–vii, 65–8.
8. Sir John Soane, Description of the house and museum on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane (London: Levey, Robson, and Franklyn, 1835), pp. 32–5 and plates.
9. ‘A Reverie at the Crystal Palace,’ Punch Magazine Vol 26 (17 June 1854), pp. 250–1.
10. Erasmus Wilson, Cleopatra's Needle: With Brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian Obelisks (London: Brain & Co, 1878), pp. v–x, 10–14, 17–9, 76–9, 89–90, 128–31, 167–8, 182–4.
11. Greville John Chester, Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities in the Ashmolean (Oxford: Parker and Co, 1881), pp. iii–viii, 93–100.
12. Amelia Edwards, ‘The Provincial and Private Collections of Egyptian Antiquities in Great Britain,’ Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la philologie et a l'archeologie egyptienne et assyriennes, 10: 3-4 (1888), pp. 121–133.
13. Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898), pp. v–vii, xi–xvi.
Part 4. National Museums
14. Samuel Birch, ‘Description of an Egyptian tomb Now preserved in the British Museum,’ Archaeologia Vol XXIX (1841), pp. 111–26.
15. William Mason, A Guide to the British Museum; Fully Descriptive of all the Most interesting Natural Curiosities, Works of Art, Greek and Roman Sculptures, Egyptian Antiquities, and other objects, worthy the attention of visitors in General (London: William Mason, 1844).
16. Charles Knight (ed.), London Volume VI (London: Henry Bohn, 1851), pp. 161–76.
17. Charles Gatty, Catalogue of the Mayer Collection, Part I. The Egyptian Babylonian, and Assyrian Antiquities. Second, revised edition (London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1879), pp. iii–xii, 23–32.
Bibliography
Index
Volume IV: Mania
General Introduction
Volume IV Introduction
Part 1. The Mysterious Mummified
1. Thomas Legh, ‘Extraordinary Adventure in the Mummy Pits in Egypt,’ The Literary Panorama and National Register Volume 5, no 29 (1817), pp. 811–16.
2. John Davidson, An address on embalming generally, delivered at the Royal Institution, on the unrolling of a mummy (London: J. Ridgway, 1833), pp. 1–23.
3. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, A history of Egyptian mummies :and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c. (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834), pp. ii–12.
4. Margaret Alice Murray, The Tomb of the Two Brothers (Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1910), pp. 7–10, 53.
Part 2. Powerful Magic
5. George Stanley Faber, ‘Remarks on the Pyramid of Cephrenes, lately opened by Mr. Belzoni,’ The Classical Journal Vol. XXI, No. XLI (March 1820), pp. 8–21.
6. John Taylor, The Great Pyramid: Why was it built? and Who Built it? (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859), pp. 111–28, 201–11.
7. E. A Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1899), pp. vii–xv, 1–4, 182–203.
Part 3. Fantastical Fiction
8. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias,’ The Examiner No. 524 (11 Jan 1818): p. 24.
9. Horace Smith, ‘Ozymandias,’ The Examiner No. 527 (1 Feb 1818): p. 73.
10. William Alexander installing the Bust of Ramesses II in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, a drawing. E. W. Cooke, June 2, 1834.
11. Jane Webb Loudon, The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (London: Henry Colburn, 1827), Vol 1: pp. 214–25, 250–55, 298–303; Vol 2: pp. 42–52.
12. Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘Lot No. 249,’ Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (October 1892), pp. 525–44.
13. Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx: A poem (London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894).
14. Marie Corelli, Ziska: The Problem of A Wicked Soul (New York: Stone & Kimball, 1897), pp. 7–9, 50–60, 292–315.
Part 4. Circulating Egypt
15. Owen Jones, Joseph Bonomi, and Samuel Sharpe, Description of the Egyptian Court; Erected in the Crystal Palace by Owen Jones, Architect, and Joseph Bonomi, Sculptor (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854), pp. 12–34.
16. Edouard Naville, The Store City of Pithom and the Route of the Exodus (London: Trübner & Co., 1883), pp. vii–28.
17. Collection of Egyptian Postcards, from the American University in Cairo Rare Books Collection, late 19th to early 20th century.
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.
