Sir EA Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum's

department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in

1924 Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient

objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues

and other artefacts for the trustees of the British Museum

numbering into the thousands and of great cultural and historical

significance. Budge published well over 100 monographs, which

shaped the development of future scholarship and are still of great

academic value today, dealing with subjects such as Egyptian

religion, history and literature,

First published in 1908, this is the first of two volumes dealing with

the kings of Egypt. Using a variety of material from the British

Library's extensive collections, Budge meticulously collated the

names of the Pharaohs and royal personages from the 1st to the 19th

Dynasties of Egypt With a detailed discussion concerning Egyptian

chronology, this classic work will be of great interest and value to

scholars and students of Ancient Egyptian history and archaeology.