The keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum offers studies in Egyptian mythology. Lavishly illustrated with plates and line drawings. The Egyptian hieroglyphs are translated, and actual excerpts in hieroglyph abound in this scholarly work. Selected contents: Amen, and Amen-Ra, and the Triad of Thebes; Hapi, the god of the Nile; Osiris; Hymn to Osiris - hieroglyphic text with interlinear transliteration and translation; The sorrows of Isis; Sacred animals and birds, etc.