A Wayfarer in Egypt

This 1925 book describes the famous archaeological sites, but also more unusual aspects of Egyptian life and history.

Annie Abernethie Pirie Quibell (Author)

9781108081955, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 August 2017

254 pages, 16 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.36 kg

The Egyptologist Annie Quibell, née Pirie (1862–1927), originally trained as an artist, but became a student of Sir Flinders Petrie, copying wall-paintings and inscriptions at his Saqqara excavations, where she met her husband, who was an inspector for the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Accompanying him and sharing in his work on site, she was keen to popularise the marvels of ancient Egyptian civilisation, recreating life-sized Egyptian rooms for a display at the St Louis World's Fair in 1904, and writing several works for the lay reader. This book, published in 1925, is intended to 'point out to other sojourners and travellers some things about Egypt, which, after long residence there, seem to me important'. As well as discussing the famous archaeological sites, Quibell describes Port Said (the entrance to the Suez Canal), and the Nile delta, the Coptic church and its long history, and an expedition into the desert.

Preface
1. Alexandria
2. Port Said and the Delta
3. The pyramids
4. The Egyptian museum
5. The Coptic church
6. The citadel of Cairo
7. Cairo: the monuments
8. Cairo: the mediaeval town
9. Sakkara
10. Desert travel
11. Cairo to Luxor: the villages
12. Cairo to Luxor: the antiquities
13. Luxor: the east bank
14. Luxor: the west bank
15. Luxor to Assuan
16. Assuan to Abu Simbel
Index.

Subject Areas: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]