Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Volume 3
Including their Private Life, Government, Laws, Art, Manufactures, Religion, and Early History

First published in 1837, and highly influential thereafter, this well-illustrated three-volume work covers almost every aspect of ancient Egyptian life.

John Gardner Wilkinson (Author)

9781108066457, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 September 2013

442 pages, 106 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg

A pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875) first travelled to Egypt in 1821, the year before Champollion published his breakthrough work on the Rosetta Stone. As public interest in Egypt grew, Wilkinson studied and sketched the country's major archaeological sites, most notably the tombs of Thebes. His Topography of Thebes and General View of Egypt (1835) and Modern Egypt and Thebes (1843) are also reissued in this series. This well-illustrated three-volume work, first published in 1837, remained for over a century a key text on the lives of ancient Egyptians. Writing in a popular genre that was normally focused on contemporary societies, Wilkinson covers areas ranging from daily life to funerary beliefs. His imaginative approach underpinned the book's considerable success. Volume 3 includes discussion of hunting techniques, decorative arts, the making of papyrus, ship construction, and the building and decoration of monuments.

List and explanations of plates
8. The hyaena caught in a trap
9. Fall of Egyptian art
10. Style of art.

Subject Areas: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]