LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  Alexander Glovatski _Frontispiece_

  Jeremiah Curtin at the Statue of Rameses the Great in the Temple of Luxor _Page_ v

  Step Pyramid " 135

  Village of Bedreshen on the site of Memphis " 143

  Pyramid of Cheops " 470

  The Great Sphinx " 475

  Statue of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen " 545

  General View of the Ruins of Karnak " 582

  Tomb of a Pharaoh in the Libyan Hills " 592

  Avenue of Sphinxes from the Temple of Karnak to the Nile " 617