The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

The poems, hymns, tales and instructions of ancient Egypt in translation - the shipwrecked sailor, the eloquent peasant, the hymn to the sun - by the Museum keeper who read the hieroglyphs as easily as English. This edition adds thirty plates of painting, among them works by Denman Ross, Jan Ciągliński and John Frederick Lewis, plus three illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.