History Today, June 1st, 1995
* The two books reviewed here are translations of works which first appeared in French (Grimal) and German (Hornung) in 1988 and 1989 respectively. Erik Hornung, Professor of Egyptology at Basie University, is one of the most influential writers of recent decades on Egyptian religion, and especially on the funerary texts which adorn the walls of the tombs of Tutankhamun and other New Kingdom pharaohs in the Valley of Kings at Luxor. He has also made a profound contribution to modern understanding of ancient Egyptian thought generally, and it is this that is here distilled. There are nine chapt...
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