=Stories of Magicians= were as popular as books of travel, and of these may be mentioned the group contained in the Westcar Papyrus in Berlin. In one of them we are told of a famous magician who made a figure of a crocodile in wax which, when thrown into the river, became a huge, living crocodile, and devoured the man who had done the magician an injury. In another the magician cut off a goose’s head, and placed it in one part of the room, and the body of the bird in another; he then recited certain words of power, and the head and body approached each other little by little, and at length the head sprang up on the neck, and the goose cackled. In another story we are told how one of the maidens who was rowing the royal barge on a lake dropped one of her ornaments into the water. A magician having been brought, stood up and recited words of power, whereupon the half of the lake on which was the boat transferred itself above the other half, and remained there whilst the maiden stepped out of the boat and picked up her ornament which was seen lying on a shard. This done, the magician repeated words of power, and the water, which had been standing up like a wall, flowed back into its place. Under the head of =Science= must be included the inscriptions which deal with =Astronomy=, and contain lists of the Planets, the thirty-six Dekans, the Signs of the Zodiac (see the coffin of Ḥeru-netch-tef-f, First Egyptian Room, No. 6678), etc.; =Calendars= (Papyrus No. 10,474); =Geometry= illustrated by the famous Rhind Papyrus in the British Museum (No. 10,057); =Geography= and =Cartography=, illustrated by the papyrus at Cairo in which the religious divisions of the Fayyûm are described, and by the famous map of the district of the gold mines preserved in the Museum of Turin; =Chronology=, as represented by the =Turin Papyrus=, which, when complete, contained the names of about 300 kings of Egypt, and the lengths of their reigns in years and months, or days. In connection with this branch may be mentioned the =King List= of Thunurei, found at Ṣaḳḳârah, and the King Lists of Seti I and Rameses II found at Abydos (=Tablets of Abydos, 1 and 2=); the remains of the List made for Rameses II are preserved in the British Museum (Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 6, No. 592). [Illustration: Marble Sundial. Ptolemaïc Period. [Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 29, No. 976.]]