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Because of his experience as Inspector-General of Antiquities of the Egyptian government and as a member of the catalogue staff of the Cairo Museum, Mr. Weigall should qualify as a competent entrant in the field of Egyptological history. In his preface he immediately marks off his own lane between that of the thoughtful but popular Breasted on one side, and that of the painstaking, compilatory and scholastic Petrie on the other. Regarding "neither the public as dolts nor Egyptologists as magicians " he tugs out a chariot full of old facts but newly arranged and interpreted, and is off down the course after his rivals. It is very invigorating to find an historian so sure of his new facts. He does pause to admit that the American Breasted is the leading Egyptologist of the day, that Petrie, although all wrong in his chronology, is the father of scientific excavation in Egypt, that Reisner of the Boston Museum and Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum in New York are the two best excavators of the modern school, that a number of named Englishmen are pretty good in their lines, that the Germans are far from infallible, and that the French, as a whole, are not first rate. A very invigorati

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Author

R. V. D. Magoffin; Arthur Weigall

Publisher

Archaeological Institute of America; JSTOR; Test accounts (ISSN 0002-9114)

Published

1926

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)