Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Inconsistencies between the main text and Index were resolved in favor of the main text.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Descriptions in the List of Illustrations often are more informative than the captions printed with the illustrations.
The half-page photographs were printed two to a page, one above the other, and often with a shared caption. In this eBook each photograph is shown with its own caption.
Footnote 2 in the Appendix on page 112 originally was two identical footnotes, because that Appendix crossed a page boundary.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page 124: “Nagada” may be a misprint for “Naqada”.