Leonard Cottrell, author of numerous BBC radio documentaries on ancient Egypt, offers the general reader a story that is both entertaining and factual, ably conveying the romance and mystery which draw so many to the study of ancient Egypt.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, A NOTE TO THE LEARNED, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF DYNASTIES, THE LAND AND ITS HISTORY, ARRIVAL OF THE EGYPTOLOGIST, RETREAT OF THE FRONTIER, ORIGIN OF THE PYRAMIDS, How AND WHY THEY WERE BUILT, MOTHER OF CHEOPS, THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES, CITY OF THE DEAD, THE ROYAL VALLEY, THE LOST PHARAOHS, THE GREATEST DISCOVERY, ALL THE WORLD WONDERED, JOURNEY TO AKHETATEN, CITY OF THE SUN-KING, THE FUTURE OF EGYPTOLOGY, ApPENDIX, BOOKS CONSULTED, INDEX

Leonard Cottrell, author of numerous BBC radio documentaries on ancient Egypt, offers the general reader a story that is both entertaining and factual, ably conveying the romance and mystery which draw so many to the study of ancient Egypt.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, A NOTE TO THE LEARNED, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF DYNASTIES, THE LAND AND ITS HISTORY, ARRIVAL OF THE EGYPTOLOGIST, RETREAT OF THE FRONTIER, ORIGIN OF THE PYRAMIDS, How AND WHY THEY WERE BUILT, MOTHER OF CHEOPS, THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES, CITY OF THE DEAD, THE ROYAL VALLEY, THE LOST PHARAOHS, THE GREATEST DISCOVERY, ALL THE WORLD WONDERED, JOURNEY TO AKHETATEN, CITY OF THE SUN-KING, THE FUTURE OF EGYPTOLOGY, ApPENDIX, BOOKS CONSULTED, INDEX