Weigall, Arthur E. P. The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharoah of Egypt. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1910. [11774]
Blue publisher's cloth with gilt to spine, white decoration to front, spine darkened, light edge-wear, small ring stain to back cover, 9 x 6 inches, joints good. Top page edges gilt, 1910 owner's signature on ffep, newspaper clipping laid in leaving shadow to ffep, color frontispiece. xii, [2], 288 pp. with plates, maps, index. 32 pp. publisher's catalogue. Text has foxing of varying intensity. Good. Hardcover.
An account written during a time of great interest in Egyptian antiquities and explorations. The body of Akhnaton was discovered in 1907 by Mr. Theodore M. Davis at Thebes.
Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall (1880-1934), English Egyptologist, he served as Inspector-General of Antiquities for the Egyptian government from 1905 to 1914, "playing a key role in excavations at the Valley of the Kings with Theodore M. Davis and in the Tombs of the Nobles at Thebes with Sir Robert L. Mond...His writings reflect both scholarly rigor and popular appeal, blending archaeology, history, and narrative."
