Operations Carried On at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: Volume 1
With an Account of a Voyage into Upper Egypt, and an Appendix

This influential three-volume work, published 1840–2, narrates the excavations at Giza carried out by a British officer and Egyptologist.

Howard Vyse (Author)

9781108075664, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 December 2014

374 pages, 30 b/w illus.
25.4 x 17.8 x 2 cm, 0.65 kg

An army officer and politician, Richard William Howard Vyse (1784–53) also made his mark as an Egyptologist. This three-volume work, published in 1840–2, has remained an instructive resource in Egyptology up to the present day. Adopting the style of a journal, with illustrations and diagrams throughout, it narrates in detail his excavations at Giza, surveying and measuring the pyramids. Following Vyse's return to England, the work was continued by the engineer and surveyor John Shae Perring (1813–69). Vyse gives observations of his travels, and of the landscape, people and architecture he encountered, as well as details of the important work he carried out. Most notable was his discovery, using gunpowder, of four new chambers in the Great Pyramid containing 'quarry marks' - graffiti by the pyramid builders. Volume 1 (1840) covers the start of his travels in Egypt and the early excavations on the Great Pyramid.

Preface
1. First arrival at Cairo
2. State of the pyramids at Gizeh
3. Return from Syria to Alexandria
4. Second arrival at Cairo
5. M. Caviglia's arrival at Cairo
6. Voyage into Upper Egypt
7. Arrival at Thebes
8. Es Souan
9. Temple of Sabooa
10. Temple of Amada
11. Wady Halfa
12. Faras
13. Ferradj
14. Abou Simbel
15. Tosko
16. Ibrim
17. Derr
18. Dakke
19. Gerf Hossein
20. Dandoor
21. Kalabshee
22. Wady Taffa
23. Gertassee
24. Debode
25. Philae
26. Koum Ombos
27. Hadjar Silsilis
28. Edfou
29. Eilithias
30. Esneh
31. El Hallam
32. Gebelein
33. Ermont
34. Thebes
35. Dendera
36. Quasr-e-Syad
37. How
38. Abydos
39. Eckmim
40. Shendowee
41. Gow-el-Kebeer
42. E-Siout
43. El Karib
44. Tel-el-Amarna
45. Reramoun
46. Sheik Abadeh
47. Beni Hassan
48. Minyeh
49. Dewadee
50. Tehneh
51. Deir-el-Adra
52. Kom Achmar
53. Benisouef
54. The Faiyoum
55. Gizeh: the pyramids.

Subject Areas: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]