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Portraits Painted in Wax, from Roman Mummies, Hawara.
TEN YEARS’ DIGGING
IN EGYPT
1881-1891
BY
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
AUTHOR OF ‘PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH,’ ‘HAWARA,’ ‘MEDUM,’ ETC.
WITH A MAP
AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
SECOND EDITION, REVISED
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
56 PATERNOSTER ROW, 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD
AND 164 PICCADILLY
1893
‘In studying history, it must be borne in mind that a knowledge is necessary of the state of manners, customs, wealth, arts, and science at the different periods treated of. The text of civil history requires a context of this knowledge in the mind of the reader.’