Mar VE RST TY OF CAICAGO PRESS 
cient Records of Egypt 
By JAMES HENRY BREASTED 
Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History in the University of Chicago 
Author of The History of Egypt ; 
FULL and reliable source-book 
of Egyptian history is at last to 
appear. After ten years of labor, 
Professor James H. Breasted offers 
to Egyptologists and students of 
history a corpus of Egyptian in- 
scriptions-on a scale not previously 
attempted, and with a degree of ac- 
curacy never before attained. Pro- 
fessor Breasted has copied with his 
own hand every Egyptian inscription 
in Europe and many of those in 
Egypt. So thorough a revision 
would have been impossible but for 
his connection with the great Egyp- 
tian Dictionary in preparation by the 
Royal Academies of Germany. The 
inaccuracy of even the best readings 
of ancient inscriptions is proverbial, 
but it is believed that, with the 
minute care that he has bestowed 
upon the work, Professor Breasted’s 
record of this vast mass of rapidly 
ill prove definitive. Remote and dry as such labor may 
an, it proves on closer acquaintance to be teeming with 
It is hardly necessary to say that an expert linguist at the 
a position very different from that of even the best scholar 
mare ago. So great has been the progress in the study of the language 
: ES rrision of the documents was imperatively demanded. ie 
Ads to Sa lons are arranged chronologically and extend from the earlies 
5B. T nal loss of Egyptian independence by the Persian conquest in 
m phey are accompanied by historical introductions, explanatory notes, 
Uta analytical index. While intended as a companion to the author’s 
“Ares of 2 Egypt, they have an independent value, and deserve a place on the 
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4 vols.; 390, 450, 300, 560 pp. (see opposite page.) 
