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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Margaret A. Murray, Egyptian Temples, 1931


Margaret Alice Murray, 
Egyptian Temples, 
London, [1931]. -
X, 246 pp., 64 pls. - pdf-file (15.7 MB) [PDF]
http://oilib.uchicago.edu/books/murray_temples_1931.pdf 

"There is no book which gives a short résumé of the temples of
Egypt, for there is nothing between a guide book and the enormous
volumes of specialists. I have, therefore, tried in this small book
to collect together the chief points of interest of many of the temples
now remaining. This does not pretend to be an exhaustive account
of any one temple, or even to give a complete list of all the temples;
it merely gives a rapid survey of the architecture, some of the
history, and a few details not usually found in books such as those
I have mentioned above. The stu

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