TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE Appendix to chapter vii.—extract from ferlini's description of his excavations at the pyramids OF BAGRAWiYA 307

CHAPTER VIII.

Third Mission, 1903. Visits, to Khartum, Soba, Wad

BA Nagaa, Bir, Masawwarat As-sufra, etc. . .3-21

CHAPTER IX.

Third Mission, 1903. Excavations at the Pyramids of Merge ^^y

CHAPTER X.

Description of the Pyramids of Merge. Northern Group—Forty-three Pyramids 357 CHAPTER XI.

Description of the Pyramids of Merge. The Southern Group, and the Groups on the Plain 416

CHAPTER XII.

Fourth. Mission to the Sudan (1905) . . . . 436

PART II.

A HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN, ANCIENT

AND MODERN.

CHAPTER I. The Sudan under the ivth, vth, and vith Dynasties 505

CHAPTER II. The Sudan under the xith, xiith, and xiiith Dynasties 52c)

CHAPTER III. The Sudan under the xviiith, xixth, and xxth Dynasties 561

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