
Where did the original inhabitants of the Nile Delta come from? How did their religion and society evolve? How did they continue with such consistency over five millenia?
The Origins of the Ancient Egyptians and excerpts from The Book of the Dead, the Ptah-Hotep and the Ke'gemini.
Dr. Brian Brown wrote this book in 1923, very soon after Egyptology became a fascination for the western world, and before King Tut's tomb was fully excavated. He gave us the first English translation of the three pillars of Egyptian thought, The Book of the Dead, the Ptah-Hotep and the Ke'gemini.