Since the first donations of Egyptian artefacts to the Fitzwilliam Museum, including the sarcophagus lid of Rameses III donated in 1823, its ancient Egyptian holdings have grown steadily. This collection, now one of the most important in Britain, was catalogued for the first time by Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) of the British Museum's department of antiquities. Budge was a leading authority on ancient Egypt and had himself acquired several pieces for the museum in Egypt in 1886-7. The collection as listed in this 1893 publication included 577 objects: sarcophagi, coffins, canopic jars, mummies, scarabs, sculptures, and other decorative objects. Budge provided transcriptions and translations of the hieroglyphs that appear on the objects with his descriptions of each item. Although the collection has been augmented by many further gifts and purchases, Budge's catalogue remains a valuable record of the collection in the late Victorian period.

The 'Kebra Nagast' (Glory of Kings) was written at least one thousand years ago, and takes its theme from much older sources, some going back to the first century AD. Written originally in the African classical language Ge'ez, the book tells the history of a Davidic line of African monarchs, descended from King Solomon of Israel and Maqeda, Queen of Sheba (Saba), who journeyed to the Levant specifically to visit the wise and far-famed monarch. It was a successful meeting of minds, and Maqeda proved the equal of Solomon the Wise in a series of long philosophical discussions. But the Hebrew monarch was not merely attracted to the African Queen's intellect - by means of a ploy, he seduced Maqeda, who gave birth to a son, Ebna-Lahakim. But this seduction proved to be Solomon's undoing. While in Israel, Prince Ebna-Lahakim gathered around him a group of royal nobles and together they seized the two most powerful symbols of Israel's compact with the Almighty - the Ark of the Covenant and the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. These trophies were carried back to Abyssinia where, it is said, they remain to this day.

The after-life was a major component of ancient Egyptian culture, upon which much of their society was centered around. Death and resurrection was considered a constant cycle. This book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Egyptian ceremonies. The author, Sir Wallis Budge, was the keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and devoted his life to understanding their mysteries. This book goes much further in explaining ancient Egyptian rituals, texts and artifacts than many newer books have done. Highly recommended for those seeking new information on a legendary ancient culture.

Contains nine of the most important religious and mythological stories from ancient Egypt. These stories have been told throughout the years, but have rarely been found in their exact translations, all together in one volume. In most cases, the original Egyptian hieroglyphs appear on each facing page of text, making this a great study tool for those interested in ancient Egyptian writing. With practice, one may come away with the ability to read Egyptian hieroglyphs. These essential works include The Legend of the Creation; The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind; The Legend of Ra and the Snake-Bite; The Legend of Horus of Edfu and the Winged Disc; The Legend of the Origin of Horus; A Legend of Khensu Nefer-Hetep and the Princess of Bekhten; The Legend of Khnemu and a Seven Years' Famine; The Legend of the Death and Resurrection of Horus; and The Legend of Isis and Osiris According to Classical Writers. Essential texts for those researching ancient Egyptian history and mythology.

With chapters on their religion, daily life, etc. This work was written with the view of providing beginners with a handy introduction to the study of Egyptian history. The first six chapters are devoted to a description of the country of Egypt and the Nile, and the ancient Egyptians, and the principle facts of their history, which covers a period of more than 4,000 years. The next three chapters describe briefly the main outlines of the religion and daily life of this wonderful people and their worship of the dead.

Volume 1 of 2. These volumes are a comprehensive dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphics translated into English for the serious student of Egyptian texts. Every student of Egyptian texts, whether hieroglyphic, hieratic or demotic, has found it necessary to compile in one form or another his own Egyptian dictionary. These volumes also contain an index of English words, king list and geographical list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, Coptic and Semitic alphabets, etc.

This work consists of the original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim amulets and talismans and magical figures, with chapters on the evil eye, the Swastika, the Cross (Pagan and Christian), the properties of stones, rings, divination, numbers, the Kabbalah, ancient astrology, etc., with twenty-two plates and three hundred illustrations in the text.

Volume 1 of 2. Following the general suggestions by J.M. Cook, Budge originally prepared this work as a short guide to the principal Egyptian monuments on the Nile so far south as the Second Cataract, usually visited by tourists who traveled on the Nile under Cook's direction. Over time, a great deal of information of all kinds about places and monuments off the beaten path came to Budge's attention, which he added to the original guidebook, thus this present work.

Volume 2 of 2. Following the general suggestions by J.M. Cook, Budge originally prepared this work as a short guide to the principal Egyptian monuments on the Nile so far south as the Second Cataract, usually visited by tourists who traveled on the Nile under Cook's direction. Over time, a great deal of information of all kinds about places and monuments off the beaten path came to Budge's attention, which he added to the original guidebook, thus this present work.

This compendium contains Volumes 1-3 of the original work. Volumes 1 and 2 are concerned with the Rosetta Stone, one of the most interesting and important objects in the National Collection of Egyptian Antiquities preserved in the British Museum. From it came the correct values of several of the letters of the Egyptian alphabet and it supplied many of the fundamental facts upon which the great superstructure of Egyptian decipherment was based. In the original Volume 3, the texts, with translations, from the Stele of Canopus are found.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Translated from the Ethiopic manuscripts collected by King Theodore at Makdala and now in the British Museum. The number of Ethiopic manuscripts containing legends of the birth, life and death of the Virgin Mary is very great and the translations of all of them would take up many volumes. Budge collected a series of legends of the Virgin and added to them specimens of all the principal devotional works and so produced the present work. Illustrated.

Includes sections relative to Pagan, Christian and Muslim. These translations and summaries of the contents of Egyptian tales and stories are intended to illustrate the fiction and historical and religious romances of the Egyptians from the early dynastic period to the present day. In all three groups of tales found within, the translations have been made as literal as is consistent with intelligibility. Profusely illustrated.

A study of the time of the Amen and Aten cults in ancient Egypt. With hieroglyphic texts of hymns to Amen and Aten, translations and illustrations. Contents: Reign of Tutankhamen; Tutankhamen and the cult of Amen; Hymn to Amen and Aten; Cult of Aten, the God and Disk of the Sun, its origin, development and decline; Development of the Cult of Aten under Amenhetep IV; Hymns to Aten; Hymn to Aten by the King; Hymn to Aten by Ai, Overseer of the Horse; Hymns to the Sun-god; Egyptian Monotheism.

A series of descriptions of all the important inscribed obelisks, with hieroglyphic texts, translations, etc. With 17 plates and 22 illustrations in the text. The first part of the book describes the construction and function of the Egyptian obelisks. The second part describes all of the existing obelisks and their inscriptions.

The keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum offers studies in Egyptian mythology. Lavishly illustrated with plates and line drawings. The Egyptian hieroglyphs are translated, and actual excerpts in hieroglyph abound in this scholarly work. Selected contents: The gods of Egypt; Primitive gods and nome-gods; Hell and the damned; The myths of Ra; Thoth, Maat and the other goddesses who were associated with him; The Horus gods.

The hieroglyphic transcript of the Papyrus of ANI, the translation into English and an introduction by E.A. Wallis Budge, late keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities in the British Museum. The Papyrus of ANI is the largest, most perfect and best illuminated of all the papyri containing copies of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead.

This book is intended to form an easy introduction to the study of the Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions. It contains a short account of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics, and a sketch of the hieroglyphic system of writing and of the general principles which underlie the use of picture signs to express thought. The main facts of Egyptian grammar are given in a series of short chapters, and these are illustrated by numerous brief extracts from hieroglyphic texts; each extract is printed in hieroglyphic type and is accompanied by a transliteration and translation. Included in this book is a lengthy list of hieroglyphic characters with their values both as phonetics and ideograms.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This work is divided into two parts in which Budge tried to deal with the main facts of the religious beliefs of the Egyptians from the time when the Egyptian savage filled earth, air, sea and sky with hostile evil spirits and lived in terror of the Evil Eye, and relied upon every branch of magic for help and deliverance from them, to the moment when the Egyptian nation hailed as their One God, or God One, Amen-Ra of Thebes, lord of the thrones of the world. Part I contains principal facts about the religious beliefs and thoughts of the Egyptians, and their conception of God and the gods, their enneads and triads, the religious and systems of the great cities. Magic, the cult of animals, the cult of Osiris and the Tuat, or Other World, are treated at some length. Part II is devoted to a series of revised English translations of a considerable number of fine hymns; myths, both ritual and aetiological; legends of the gods, and a few miscellaneous texts. Illustrated.

This volume contains the Egyptian texts with English translations of two copies of one of the most important documents connected with the dead which have come down to us, namely, a detailed list of the offerings which were made to the dead, and also of the consecrating formulae which were recited by the chief officiating priest, as he presented them to a mummified body, or to a statue of the deceased. The original document deals exclusively with the presentation of offerings to the dead. Illustrated.

This book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian composition, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in the study of the mental development of ancient nations. It represents one of the first attempts to place before the public a summary of the principle contents of Egyptian literature in a handy and popular form.

This volume exhaustively discusses the details of mummies in Egyptian society. Preservation of the body was the chief end and aim of every Egyptian who wished to attain everlasting life. It is to the cult of the dead, the predominant feature of which was the preservation of the mummy, that we owe most of our knowledge of the Egyptians for a period of about 5,000 years. Egypt lives again through its dead and Budge gives the reader a complete picture of mummies and their history. Illustrated.

A history of the patriarchs and the kings, their successors from the creation to the crucifixion of Christ. This volume contains a complete translation of the Syriac text of the compendious history of the world from the creation to the crucifixion of our Lord, which is commonly known as the Cave of Treasures.

Volume 2 of 2. Sir Wallis Budge, late keeper of the Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum, shows the reader the ancient worship of Osiris originating and flourishing in Africa. These volumes illustrate in depth and in rich detail the African and year-god character of the worship of Osiris. The religion of Osiris is very ancient and its analogies with later religions are clear, although there are differences in detail. The tale of of the mythology and ritual of Osiris had never before been told until Dr. Budge published these books.