About the Book

F. de Lanoye's Rameses the Great was translated from the French for Scribner's and belongs to the first generation of popular Egyptology — written after Champollion had cracked the hieroglyphs but while much of what we now know was still being dug out of the sand.

It follows Rameses II through his campaigns, his building programme, and the daily life of the Egypt he ruled, illustrated with thirty-nine wood engravings by Lancelot, Sellier and Bayard.

Some of its conclusions have been overtaken by later scholarship; it is presented as the nineteenth century understood the subject.

This digital edition is built from a dual-engine OCR, reconciled page by page.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1902 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.