Mariette, Auguste; Dickerman, Lysander [Hrsg.]: The monuments of Upper Egypt (Boston, 1890)

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THE MONUMENTS OF UPPER EGYPT.

flourished on the banks of the Nile, and which,
from beginning to end, used hieroglyphs as its
form of writing.

For the interpretation and understanding of
those monuments Science avails herself of three
different sources.

As a matter of course, the first and principal
source is afforded by the monuments them-
selves, the undeniable witnesses, and often the
contemporaries, of the events they relate. After
them comes Manetho, an Egyptian priest, who
wrote a history of Egypt in Greek ; the third
and last place being assigned to the Greek and
Roman authors who travelled in Egypt, or who
wrote about it from hearsay.

A. — MONUMENTS.

The monuments are at once many and vari-
ous. Some are still in Egypt, some have found
their way into the museums of various countries.
As we have no intention of drawing up an
inventory, be it ever so brief, of the monuments
preserved in the Museums, we shall not go out
of Egypt and will rest satisfied with supplying
here a few data upon the temples and tombs,