The keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum offers studies in Egyptian mythology. Lavishly illustrated with plates and line drawings. The Egyptian hieroglyphs are translated, and actual excerpts in hieroglyph abound in this scholarly work. Selected contents: The gods of Egypt; Primitive gods and nome-gods; Hell and the damned; The myths of Ra; Thoth, Maat and the other goddesses who were associated with him; The Horus gods.