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1864. The researches of scholars and critics, which have been so generously and successfully lavished for two centuries upon the ruins of Egypt, only increase our desire to be acquainted with the people who built and adorned these monuments. We would pass from the temples to the streets and homes of the cities, from admiration to friendship, from catalogs to pictures. Handsomely illustrated. Contents: Alexandria; Heliopolis; pyramids; Cairo; the Nile; the land; Edfoo; Beni Hassan; Thebes; tombs of Thebes; Philae; Goshen; the desert.