E A Wallis Budge: 97 books

Sir E.A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead. In The Book of the Cave of Treasures,...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.In E. A. Wallis Budge's classic work, Babylonian Life and History, the reader will find everything from Babylonian vampires to the practice of "baby farming" in Mesopotamia. Budge brings to his readers the most famous...

In addition to his 40-year career at the British Museum, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was a prolific and popular author who specialized in books on ancient Egypt. The Dwellers on the Nile remains among the most comprehensive and readable histories of daily life in ancient Egypt, covering...

La magia egiziana sorge dai tempi predinastici e preistorici in cui si credeva che la terra, e il mondo sotterraneo, l'aria e il cielo, fossero popolati da innumerevoli esseri, visibili e invisibili, che potevano essere amichevoli o ostili all'uomo. Gli attributi di simili esseri per l'uomo...

L'obiettivo principale di questa edizione consiste nel fornire informazioni sulla religione, la magia, la lingua e le storia degli antichi Egizi, avvallate dai testi originali da cui sono state tratte. Purtroppo non si conoscono gli autori delle opere egiziane, neppure i loro nomi, ed è quindi impossibile...

Le tavolette di argilla che descrivono le credenze dei Babilonesi e degli Assiri circa l'epoca della creazione sono state scoperte da Mr. Layard, Mormuzd Rassam e George Smith, assistente presso il Dipartimento di Antichità Orientali del british museum. Sono state trovati tra le rovine del palazzo...

The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found...

The Literature Of The Ancient Egyptians by E.A. Wallis Budge.

Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations by E. A. Wallis Budge Translations of key Ancient Egyptian myths. Includes De Iside et Osiride by Plutarch.

In the pursuit of their amazingly complex vision of the afterlife, the ancient Egyptians created some of the most remarkable structures ever built by human hands. In Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, famed Egyptologist and philologist E.A. Wallis Budge sets forth a comprehensive overview of the ancient...

Former Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was one of the great Egyptologists of the century and author of a host of books on ancient Egypt. For this collection, he carefully selected nine of the most interesting and important Egyptian...

The Rosetta Stone by noted Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge is a fascinating overview of the Rosetta Stone, its history, and its translation. Also included are discussion of other hieroglyphic writings, and a history of the translation of the stone. Many images of hieroglyphics and their translations are included. A table of contents is included to navigate through the book.

This is the second volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s narrative account of Ethiopian history, and continues the chronicle of the Kings of Abyssinia where the first volume ended: the death of Lebna Dengel in 1540. The list of kings ends with the Regent Rās Tafari, who still reigned at the...

This, the first volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s The History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, first published in 1928, presents an account of Ethiopian history from the earliest legendary and mythic records up until the death of King Lebna Dengel in 1540. Using a vast range of sources...