-a Pelican Book Archaic Egypt W.B. LN' PELICAN BOOKS ARCHAIC EGYPT ' ‘Walter Bryan Emery, the Edwards Professor of Egyptology in the University of London, was'born in 1903. After pre~ liminary training at the Liverpool University Institute of ‘Archaeology, he went to Egypt for the first time in 1923 - ‘as an assistant on the staff of the Egypt Exploration Society's expedition to Tell el Amarna. Since that time, with the excep tion of six years’ service with the British Army during the Second World War and four years in the Diplomatic Service in Cairo, his career was entirely devoted to excavation and discovery in the Nile Valley. Between 1924 and 1928 he directed the Mond Expedition of the University of Liverpool at Luxor and Armant, and in 1929 he was appointed Director of the Archaeological Survey of Nubia of the Egyptian Government Service of Antiquities, with instructions ‘to explore and excavate all ancient sites in Lower Nubia which would be flooded by the second raising of the Aswan Dam. During the course of this work he discovered the tombs of the Late Nubian kings. The completion of the excavation of the fortress at Buhen in 1964 ended his work in Nubia. In 1936, he began the excavation of the Archaic Necropolis at Sakkara, and in 1970 the discovery was announced of a mausoleum of the sacred cows, one of the most important finds in the annals of Egyptology. Professor ‘Emery died in March 197%Archaic Egypt WALTER B, EMERY ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR PENGUIN BOOKS