''Ancient Records of Egypt'' is a five-volume work by
James Henry Breasted, published in 1906, in which the author has attempted to translate and publish ''all'' of the ancient written records of Egyptian history which had survived to the time of his work at the start of the twentieth century. (Breasted notes that his work covers only ancient “historical documents”, and generally does not include ancient Egyptian literature, religious writings, or texts on science, mathematics, or medicine.)
* Volume I, ''The First to the Seventeenth Dynasties''
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* Volume II, ''The Eighteenth Dynasty''
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* Volume III, ''The Nineteenth Dynasty''
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* Volume IV, ''The Twentieth to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasties''
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* Volume V, ''Indices''
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It was part of a proposed three-part set of translations of original texts by different authors, which at the time were difficult to find:
* History of
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
(five volumes)
* History of
Assyria
Assyria ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the ...
(two volumes)
* History of
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the ...
Only the first two collections — those from Egypt and Assyria — were published.
References
Egyptology books
1906 books
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