With regard to woodwork, the evidence of the furniture which has been found in the tombs is conclusive both as to the skilful and sound design of the Egyptian cabinet-maker, and as to his careful and accurate workmanship. The chairs, the coffers, and the couches from the tomb of Yuaa and Tuau are delightful to the eye, with their simple and sensible lines, and suggest that they would be equally satisfactory in use. The wonders which have been disclosed in the tomb of Tutankhamen have already been discussed in their own place, so far as that is possible at present, and while they reveal nothing new, save the ugly and clumsy state couches, whose provenance has been also discussed, they show an amount of richness in detail and material for which even previous discoveries had scarcely prepared us. Professor Petrie tells us that structurally the work of the Egyptian joiner was as good as it was satisfying to the eye, and the state in which his works have come down to us through so many centuries bears witness to the soundness of the materials which he used, and of the work which he put out upon them; and perhaps the carefully moderate estimate of so great an expert is more impressive as to the quality of Egyptian craftsmanship than the multiplication of superlatives would be. “The powerful technical skill of Egyptian art, its good sense of limitations, and its true feeling for harmony and expression, will always make it of the first importance to the countries of the West with which it was so early and so long connected.” In sum the debt which the modern world owes to the culture of ancient Egypt is no small one. We owe to Egypt the first book, the first building, the first ship, the first statue, the first romance, the first relief, and the first picture, in the modern sense, of which we have any knowledge; and if some of these anticipations are crude and primitive, and show but little sign of the wonderful development of which the future was to prove them capable, yet it is only due to this pioneer nation to remember that it is to her that we owe the seed which has borne so manifold a harvest. INDEX Aahmes Nefertari, Queen, 160 Aah-hotep, Queen, 27, 156 Aashait, Princess, 99 Abbott Papyrus, 128 Abd-er-Rassoul, Ahmed, 157; Mohamed, 158 Abu-Roash, 49, 52 Abusir, 50, 68, 69 Abydos, Temple of Sety I, 31; Royal Tombs, 135 _et seq._ Akerblad, 14 Akhenaten, 113, 118, 168, 171, 172 _et seq._, 189 Akhetaten, 174, 190 Amélineau, 136, 140, 141 Amen, 111 Amenartas, 26 Amenemhat I, 72; II, 73; III, 51, 73, 81, 82 Amenhotep I, 160; II, 100, 130, tomb of, 165 _et seq._; III, 116, 148, 166 Ameny, 224, 225 Amherst Papyrus, 128 Ammit, 205, 206 Amtes, Queen, 218, 221 Ankh.s.en.Amen (Ankh.s.en.pa. Aten), 174, 189, 190 _et seq._ Antefs, the, 224 Anubis, 186 Apis, 19 Archæology, methods and aims of, 35 _et seq._ Architecture, Egyptian, 243 _et seq._