Chapter I: Front Matter

PEEPS AT
MANY LANDS

ANCIENT EGYPT

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

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_First published October 1912_
_Reprinted January and April 1916_

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 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

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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. THE SPHINX AND THE SECOND PYRAMID 54

*12. A DESERT POSTMAN 57

*13. THE BARK OF THE MOON, GUARDED BY THE DIVINE EYES 64

14. GATEWAY OF THE TEMPLE OF EDFU 73

15. WALL-PICTURES IN A THEBAN TOMB 80

*16. PHARAOH ON HIS THRONE 20

_Sketch-Map of Ancient Egypt on page viii_

* These eight illustrations are in colour; the others are in black
and white.

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ANCIENT EGYPT