title: Egypt Pocket Guide: The Valley of the Kings and the Theban Tombs
author:  Alberto Siliotti 
description: Alberto Siliotti is a scientific journalist who specializes in Egyptology. He has written several popular books including Guide to the Pyramids of Egypt and The Discovery of Ancient Egypt, both published by the AUC Press in1998.
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  # Egypt (La Mort De Philae)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Pierre Loti
  
  
  ##### Translated from the French by W. P. BAINES
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. A WINTER MIDNIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT
  
  
  SPHINX
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE PASSING OF CAIRO
  
  
  CHAPTER III. THE MOSQUES OF CAIRO
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. THE HALL OF THE MUMMIES
  
  
  CHAPTER V. A CENTRE OF ISLAM
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. IN THE TOMBS OF THE APIS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF CAIRO
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAIC CHRISTIANITY
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE RACE OF BRONZE
  
  
  CHAPTER X. A CHARMING LUNCHEON
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE DOWNFALL OF THE NILE
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. IN THE TEMPLE OF THE GODDESS OF LOVE
  
  
  AND JOY
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. MODERN LUXOR
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. A TWENTIETH-CENTURY EVENING AT THEBES
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. THEBES BY NIGHT
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. THEBES IN SUNLIGHT
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. AN AUDIENCE OF AMENOPHIS II.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. AT THEBES IN THE TEMPLE OF THE
  
  
  OGRESS
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. A TOWN PROMPTLY EMBELLISHED
  
  
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