A History of the Pharaohs

A two-volume 1925 history of ancient Egypt, offering a chronological narrative from the earliest dynasty to the mid-eighteenth.

Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall (Author)

9781108082907, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 August 2015

382 pages, 17 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.49 kg

The career of Arthur Weigall (1880–1934) encompassed Egyptology but also stage design, film criticism and journalism, as well as fiction and books about ancient Egypt. After studying in Germany, he worked at Abydos with Flinders Petrie, but in 1905 he was unexpectedly promoted to Chief Inspector of Antiquities for Upper Egypt, when Howard Carter was forced to resign. His work in Egypt, especially in the area of Luxor, focused on the conservation of monuments and the prevention of the shipping of artefacts abroad, until 1911, when he returned to London. In the preface to this illustrated two-volume work, published in 1925, Weigall likens the writing of a history of Egypt to the piecing together of a jigsaw puzzle consisting of thousands of pieces, but intends to present a chronological narrative at a level to satisfy both the scholar and the interested amateur. Volume 1 covers the first eleven dynasties.

Preface
1. An introductory study of early Egyptian annals, king-lists, chronology and calendar dates
2. The historic period before the first dynasty
3. The first dynasty
4. The second dynasty
5. The third dynasty
6. The fourth dynasty
7. The fifth dynasty
8. The sixth dynasty
9. The seventh and eighth dynasties
10. The ninth and tenth dynasties
11. The eleventh dynasty
Index.

Subject Areas: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]