Ancient Records of Egypt, Volume 4: The Twentieth to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasties

by James Henry Breasted

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

, 1906

Overview

This volume documents the events and artifacts from the twentieth through the twenty-sixth Dynasties. Breasted covers the various wars under Ramses III, as well as the Harlem Conspiracy in the twentieth Dynasty. He then goes on to document the reign of the high priest in the twentieth Dynasty, where he lists records of royal mummification. Breasted ends his fourth volume with the kings of the twenty-sixth Dynasty.

Contents

Top Highlights

“‘O my good lord, (when) there is a matter, shall one recount it —?’” (Page 318)

Product Details

• Title: Ancient Records of Egypt, Volume 4: The Twentieth to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasties
• Author: James Henry Breasted
• Series: Ancient Records of Egypt
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Print Publication Date: 1906
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Pages: 552
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Egypt › History--To 332 B.C.--Sources
• Resource ID: LLS:ARE04
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:05:32Z

About James Henry Breasted

James Henry Breasted was a leading American scholar, historian, and archeologist around the turn of the nineteenth century. He focused in ancient Egyptian studies, as well as what became known as the Near East. He was a professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Haskell Oriental Museum in Chicago. He led several archeological expeditions throughout his career to Egypt and the Far East. Breasted was also among those who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.