tailieunhanh - THE USE OF STUDENTS AND TRAVELLERS

Notwithstanding the fact that Egyptology is now recognised as a science, an exact and communicable knowledge of whose existence and scope it behoves all modern culture to take cognisance, this work of M. Maspero still remains the Handbook of Egyptian Archaeology. But Egyptology is as yet in its infancy; whatever their age, Egyptologists will long die young. Every year, almost every month, fresh material for the study is found, fresh light is thrown upon it by the progress of excavation, exploration, and research. . | MANUAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS AND TRA VELLERS. BY G. MASPERO . OXON. MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE EX-DIRECTOR GENERAL OF EGYPTIAN MUSEUMS. TRANSLATED BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS. NEW EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR. With Three Hundred and Nine Illustrations. 1895. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH AND REVISED EDITION. Notwithstanding the fact that Egyptology is now recognised as a science an exact and communicable knowledge of whose existence and scope it behoves all modern culture to take cognisance this work of M. Maspero still remains the Handbook of Egyptian Archaeology. But Egyptology is as yet in its infancy whatever their age Egyptologists will long die young. Every year almost every month fresh material for the study is found fresh light is thrown upon it by the progress of excavation exploration and research. Hence it follows that in the course of a few years the standard text-books require considerable addition and modification if they are to be of the greatest value to students who must always start from the foremost vantageground. The increasing demand for the Egyptian Archaeology by English and American tourists as well as students decided the English publishers to issue a new edition in as light and portable a form as possible. This edition is carefully corrected and contains the enlarged letterpress and many fresh illustrations necessary for incorporating within the book adequate accounts of the main archaeological results of recent Egyptian excavations. M. Maspero has himself revised the work indicated all the numerous additions and qualified the expression of any views which he has seen reason to modify in the course of his researches during the past eight years. By the headings of the pages the descriptive titles of the illustrations and a minute revision of the index much has been done to facilitate the use of the volume as a book of .