The general aim of this book was to increase the interest of the general public in ancient Egypt, and in adding to the list of subscribers to the Egypt Exploration Society, under the auspices of which a great part of the author's research work in Egypt had been conducted. Contents: tables of dates; life in ancient Luxor; how Thebes became the capital of Egypt; Thebes, the world's first monumental city; some great kings in the time of war; famous queen; poems, songs and romances; some funerary temples; bibliography. Illustrated.