By the Same Author A Report on the Antiquities of Lower Nubia A Catalogue of the Weights and Balances in the Cairo Museum A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt Travels in the Upper Egyptian Deserts The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt A History of Egypt from 1798 to 1914 Madeline of the Desert The Dweller in the Desert Bedouin Love The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt THE GLORY OF THE PHARAOHS [Illustration: Arthur Weigall] THE GLORY OF THE PHARAOHS BY ARTHUR WEIGALL Late Inspector General of Antiquities, Egyptian Government, and Member of the Catalogue Staff of the Cairo Museum; Officer of the Order of the Medjidieh. AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AKHNATON,” ETC. _With 17 Illustrations_ G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1923 Copyright, 1923 by Arthur Weigall Made in the United States of America PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD In view of the fact that Mr. Arthur Weigall, while inclined to obscure himself owing to a distaste for public life, is widely known in several fields of activity, the Publisher has felt that a short foreword to this volume will be of interest to those who have wondered as to the author’s identity. The writer of these entertaining and scholarly essays was born in 1880, being the son of the late Major Arthur Weigall and grandson of the Rev. Edward Weigall, M.A., Vicar of Buxton, Derbyshire: a descendant of an officer of that name who came to England as Equerry to William of Orange in 1698. Various members of the family of Weigall have attained distinction in England as scholars, painters, sculptors, authors, and diplomats; but the writer of these essays was originally destined for the Army, and for that reason was educated at Wellington College. Later, however, he matriculated for New College, Oxford, causing some flutter in that academic circle by offering Egyptian hieroglyphic texts as his special subject for the examination; but he abandoned his ‘Varsity career in 1900 in order to go out to Egypt as assistant excavator to Professor Flinders Petrie.