2010-06-18 History of Egypt

I was looking for images of Set and Nergal to add to our campaign wiki. After hours of surfing I ended up on the Project Gutenberg site. This site is awesome. I still remember downloading a simple ASCII copy of Milton’s Paradise years ago and realizing that there was a source of free texts available online. But what I was interested in was the History of Egypt – you should do a search for it right now. I found some good quotes in the History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by Gaston Maspero.

=> Project Gutenberg | History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria

“Nergal united a crafty fierceness to his bravery: not content with being lord of battles, he became the pestilence which breaks out unexpectedly in a country, the death which comes like a thief, and carries off his prey before there is time to take up arms against him.” – Volume III, Part B

Notice the subtitle: “containing over twelve hundred colored plates and illustrations”. Check out the instructions for downloading all the volumes. Once you have all the images in a single directory, picking them for your blog, campaign wiki, or PDF project is so much simpler.

=> instructions for downloading all the volumes

Some finds in Volume III:

• One of the eagle-headed genii – notice the wrist-watch and the handbag! 😄
• The South-West Wind – who doesn’t love to shout “Pazuzu! Pazuzu! Pazuzu!” when the going gets tought? Ah, the joy of uttering the name Pazuzu three consecutive times… Also note the following sentence on the same page: “Imps haunted the houses, goblins wandered about the water’s edge, ghouls lay in wait for travellers in unfrequented places, and the dead quitting their tombs in the night stole stealthily among the living to satiate themselves with their blood.” Straight from the history books!
• Plan of the existing buildings of Telloh – it looks like an old school dungeon map down to the symbol used for the stairs!
• Egyptian slave merchant

=> One of the eagle-headed genii | The South-West Wind | Pazuzu | Plan of the existing buildings of Telloh | Egyptian slave merchant

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