Within this small book you will find six distinctive folk tales from the ancient land of Egypt translated and edited by that giant of Egyptology - W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942). Petrie was a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artefacts, so we can be sure when he was translating these tales he took care to arrive at the correct translation. Herein you will find the TALES OF THE MAGICIANS, BAUFRA'S TALE, HORDEDEF'S TALE, THE PEASANT AND THE WORKMAN, THE SHIPWRECKED SAILOR and THE ADVENTURES OF SANEHAT - each with their own set of explanatory remarks and notes appended to the story. Prior to this volume being published in 1899, the tales of ancient Egypt had appeared collectively only in French. The aim of the 22 BnW illustrations, by Tristram Ellis, has been to give a correct picture of the character of each of the various ages to which these tales belong, for there is a definite period assigned to each tale. For each drawing Flinders Petrie...

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