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Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt

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PEEPS AT
MANY LANDS
ANCIENT EGYPT


BY
REV. JAMES BAIKIE, F.R.A.S.



PLATE 1. PLATE 1. AN EGYPTIAN GALLEY.


PEEPS AT MANY LANDS
ANCIENT EGYPT


BY
REV. JAMES BAIKIE, F.R.A.S.

AUTHOR OF
"PEEPS AT THE HEAVENS,"
"THE STORY OF THE PHARAOHS,"
"THE SEA KINGS OF CRETE," ETC.

WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS,
THOSE IN COLOUR BEING BY
CONSTANCE N. BAIKIE

A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5 & 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.
1916

First published October 1912
Reprinted January and April 1916


AGENTS

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Printed in Great Britain.


CONTENTS

PAGE
I. A LAND OF OLD RENOWN 1
II. A DAY IN THEBES 6
III. A DAY IN THEBES (continued) 11
IV. PHARAOH AT HOME 17
V. THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER 24
VI. CHILD-LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT 33
VII. SOME FAIRY-TALES OF LONG AGO 41
VIII. SOME FAIRY-TALES OF LONG AGO (continued) 47
IX. EXPLORING THE SOUDAN 54
X. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 59
XI. EGYPTIAN BOOKS 66
XII. TEMPLES AND TOMBS 72
XIII. AN EGYPTIAN'S HEAVEN 82

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE
*1. AN EGYPTIAN GALLEY, 1500 B.C. Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
2. THE GODDESS ISIS DANDLING THE KING 9
3. THE GREAT GATE OF THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR, WITH OBELISK 16
*4. RAMSES II. IN HIS WAR-CHARIOT—SARDINIAN GUARDSMEN ON FOOT 25
*5. ZAZAMANKH AND THE LOST CORONET 32
6. GRANITE STATUE OF RAMSES II. 35
7. NAVE OF THE TEMPLE AT KARNAK 38
*8. "AND THE GOOSE STOOD UP AND CACKLED" 41
*9. AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE 48
10. STATUES OF KING AMENHOTEP III. 51
11.

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