Serge Sauneron,
The Priests of Ancient Egypt,
New York / London, 1960. - 192 pp. - pdf-file (17.4 MB) http://www.archive.org/details/priestsofancient00saun
"There are many ways of penetrating into the intimate lives of the ancient Egyptians, each way revealing some aspect of their daily life, some customary trait, some episode of their national history ... In choosing for guides the priests of ancient Egypt, however, we hope to lead the reader into a world which is even more characteristic: that of religious thought and life ... Our inquiry, then, seeks to answer several questions which are born inevitably from a survey of Egypt: why these temples and these tombs? Why these numberless reliefs, these statues carved from hardest stone? Why, on each wall, on each stela, on each object, these thousands of hieroglyphics? What men lived in these temples, and what were their thoughts?"
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