The Oxford Assyriologist set out to give travellers what the usual guidebooks lacked: the long history of contact between Egypt and the Hebrews, from the patriarchal age and Moses through the Israelite monarchies to the Ptolemies. The second half follows Herodotos through the country, testing what the Greek historian saw at Memphis and the Fayyûm against the discoveries of the 1890s.
Victorian scholarship in readable form, with datings and conclusions that later archaeology has often revised. Download the free EPUB.