Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 15: A Monthly Magazine; February, 1894 In the village of Gizeh, three miles distant from Cairo on the op posite side of the Nile, is contained the most instructive and valuable collection of Egyptian ant1qu1t1es m the world. The mummies are es pecially interesting, assuredly those of the Pharaohs, which are, well preserved, the features being clear, and the expression distinct; accord ing to the inscriptions on the monu ments, the Pharaoh of the Oppression made his son Meneptah his co-regent in the sixty-seventh year of his reign. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.