Breasted James H. Ancient Records of Egypt: The First Through the Seventeenth Dynasties. Vol. 1

University of Chicago Press, 1906. - 344 p.Around the turn of the last century, researcher James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This prodigious undertaking involved traveling to the monuments extant in the Nile valley and in outlying areas of Egyptian conquest, as well as to museums throughout Europe where Egyptian relics were housed. Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of the documents themselves. This five-volume compendium is the result.