Creator
E.A. Wallis Budge
Title
Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection. Illustrated after Drawings from Egyptian Papyri and Monuments
Coverage
London
Publisher
Medici Society
Date
1911
Subject
2 vols
Description
E.A. Wallis Budge was Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He acquired numerous antiquities for the museum on his frequent trips to the Middle East.
In Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection (1911), Budge argued that the religion of Osiris emerged from an indigenous African people, contradicting the then-prevailing view that Dynastic Egypt was formed from an invading Mesopotamian civilization.