The Book of the Kings of Egypt (Routledge Revivals) : Vol. I: Dynasties I - XIX

Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the trustees of the British Museum: numbering into the thousands and of great cultural and historical significance. Budge published well over 100 monographs, which shaped the development of future scholarship and are still of great academic value today, dealing with subjects such as Egyptian religion, history and literature. First published in 1908, this is the first of two volumes dealing with the kings of Egypt. Using a variety of material from the British Library’s extensive collections, Budge meticulously collated the names of the Pharaohs and royal personages from the 1st to the 19th Dynasties of Egypt. With a detailed discussion concerning Egyptian chronology, this classic work will be of great interest and value to scholars and students of Ancient Egyptian history and archaeology. Cover 1 The Book of the Kings of Egypt 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Original Title Page 6 Preface 8 Table of Contents 10 Chapter I. Egyptian Royal Names 12 Chapter II. Egyptian Chronology 29 The Greek Lists: 61 Mythical Period: Manetho and Panodorus 61 Mythical Period: Manetho (Boeckh) 62 The King List of Manetho 63 The Table of Eratosthenes 74 The Old Chronicle 76 The Book of the Sothis 76 Josephus. XVth, XVIIIth and XIXth Dynasties 80 List of Papers Bearing on Egyptian Chronology 81 The Kings of Egypt: 90 Predynastic Kings of The North 90 Dynasty I 92 Dynasty II 98 Dynasty III 103 Dynasty IV 106 Dynasty V 113 Dynasty VI 120 Dynasty VII and VIII 127 Dynasty IX and X 131 Dynasty XI 133 Dynasty XII 140 Dynasty XIII-XVII 154 Dynasty XV and XVI 182 Dynasty XVIII 195 Dynasty XIX 245