The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology - Revised and Enlarged Edition

The Mummy A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology is linguist and Orientalist E.A. Wallis Budges detailed overview of Egyptian funeral practices and beliefs. Included is a history of Egypt as well as the translation of common hieroglyphs to augment readers understanding of Egyptian culture. He describes in detail the wrapping and burying of mummies the attendants to the tombs and the dead drawings and hieroglyphs found on tomb walls coffins and sarcophagi treasures buried with the dead and scarabs among other things. This book is a beautiful complement to The Book of the Dead which describes the Egyptian afterlife and the motivations for detailed and drawn-out burials. This edition is the revised and enlarged edition originally published in 1925. SIR ERNEST ALFRED THOMPSON WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was born in Bodmin Cornwall in the UK and discovered an interest in languages at a very early age. Budge spent all his free time learning and discovering Semitic languages including Assyrian Syriac and Hebrew. Eventually through a close contact he was able to acquire a job working with Egyptian and Iraqi artifacts at the British Museum. Budge excavated and deciphered numerous cuneiform and hieroglyphic documents contributing vastly to the museums collection. Eventually he became the Keeper of his department specializing in Egyptology. Budge wrote many books during his lifetime most specializing in Egyptian life religion and language.