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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
by E. A. Wallis Budge
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Title: The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
Release Date: May 29, 2005 [EBook #15932]
Language: English
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THE
LITERATURE
OF THE
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
BY
E.A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., LITT.D.
Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar; Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum
1914
LONDON J.M. DENT & SONS LIMITED Aldine House, Bedford Street, W.C.
[Frontispiece: The Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani. 1. Ani adoring the gods of Sekhet-Aaru. 2. Ani reaping in the Other World. 3. Ani ploughing in the Other World. 4. The abode of the perfect spirits, and the magical boats.]
PREFACE
This little book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study