The dwellers on the Nile : the life, history, religion and literature of the ancient Egyptians [Dover orientalia]

New York : Dover, 1976, 1926, 1976. Book. Good. Soft cover. xxxii, 326 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0486235017 (pbk.); 9780486235011 (pbk.); National Library: 002499456 LCCN: 77-72195 ; LC: DT61; Dewey: 913.32 ; OCLC: 3347089 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Life, history, religion and literature of the ancient Egyptians ; "An unabridged republication of the work originally published by the Religious Tract Society, London, in 1926, under the title: The dwellers on the Nile : chapter[s] on the life, history, religion and literature of the ancient-Egyptians" ; Contents : historical outline -- Old kingdom -- Middle kingdom -- New Kingdom -- List of the principal kings of Egypt whose names have been recovered from the monuments -- The cry of the oppressed in Egypt -- The mother, the family, the home and the school -- The Egyptian house and its furniture food and drink -- Pharaoh and his subjects -- The Egyptians at work -- The Egyptians at play - Egyptian temples, gods and priests -- Egyptian writing -- The wisdom of the Egyptians -- The Egyptian religion -- The literature of the ancient Egyptians -- The Egyptian dead, heaven and hell, the future life -- Note on the bull ; small tear to cover ; price marked out on back cover ; Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. ; pen marks on flyleaf ; else G.