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OverviewA pioneer of British Egyptology, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) first travelled to Egypt in 1821, the year before Champollion published his breakthrough work on the Rosetta Stone. As public interest in Egypt grew, Wilkinson studied and sketched the country's major archaeological sites, and several of his works, describing what the increasing numbers of British travellers could expect to see, have been reissued in this series. This 1857 work was published as 'a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian Collections', and includes an introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphs by Wilkinson's friend Samuel Birch, of the British Museum. The Crystal Palace had been moved to a site in Sydenham in 1854, and housed a permanent collection of Egyptian antiquities, upon which Wilkinson draws in his highly illustrated account of the domestic life of the Egyptians. Birch's piece on hieroglyphs describes the decipherment, the ideograms, and the basics of phonetics and grammar. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Gardner Wilkinson , Samuel BirchPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108081788ISBN 10: 1108081789 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 31 August 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Domestic habits of the Egyptians; Index; 2. Introduction to the study of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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