The treasury of ancient Egypt; miscellaneous chapters on ancient Egyptian history and archæology (1911)
Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934 · Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 78
t will not, at any rate, be withoutprecedent. When England entered Egypt in 1882 shefound a nation without external interests, acountry too impoverished and weak to think ofaught else but its own sad condition. The reviv-ing of this much-bled, ansemic people, and thereorganisation of the… … The mummy of Soty I. of Dynasty XIX.—Cairo Mlskum. Pl. v. The Egyptian Empire. 49 and still is, quite as much as the hard-workedofficials could well administer. The one task ofthe regeneration of Egypt was all absorbing, andthe country came to be regarded as a little landwherein a concise,…
Archaeology · Egypt -- Antiquities
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