Budge, E. A. Wallis

Describes the everyday life of ancient Egyptians, explains their religious beliefs, recounts ancient Egypt's history, and lists its kings.

An introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphics that traces the history of hieroglyphics writing, explains how it is deciphered, and lists hundreds of characters with phonetic values and meaning.

A republication of the 1929 book which discusses the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1798, a slab engraved in three scripts that provided the key to the language of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and tells how the stone was acquired by the British, and how it was deciphered. Includes translated texts and photographs.