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Gaston Maspero was born on June 23, 1846, in Paris, to Jewish parents of Italian origin.
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This will not he an unbroken history of the ancient Oriental dynasties and nations :the order of events, the lines of the kings, the movements and invasions of the peoples may be found fully related in my Ancient History, or in its abridged edition by Yan den Berg. I only wish to give the readers of this book some impression of life under its various phases amongst -the two most civilised nations which flourished upon our earth before the Greeks. I have chosen for each of them the epoch we know the best, and of which we possess the greatest number of monuments: .for Egypt, that of Rameses II. (fourteenth centurj B.C.); for A ssyria, that of A saur|f|T iipa1 (R fivpnth nfinturyj. I have acted like those conscientious travellers who do not like to enter a new country without some preparation, who study its customs and language before they start; then I journeyed or at least I believed so two or three thousand years back, away from our present era. Once there, I looked round and endeavoured to see as well and as much as possible. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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The tales of ancient Egypt have for centuries delighted and spurred the imagination of anyone who loves a good story, yet sadly, many of these tales have fallen into obscurity over the years. Now these stories have been brought back to life for a new generation of readers. When first published in 1882, the folktales collected in Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt comprised the first anthology of ancient Egyptian narratives ever to be compiled into book form. The culmination of a life's work by Gaston Maspero, a towering figure of nineteenth-century Egyptology, it presented a wealth of information on Egyptian culture, language, history, and society. Since its publication, additional texts have been discovered, deciphered, or translated into modern languages. The present collection is made up of twenty-four tales gleaned from countless ancient written sources, and from a variety of historical periods. It contains some of the most ancient folktales in existence, such as The Tale of the Two Brothers, thought to be the oldest in the world. Other stories include King Khufui and the Magicians, The Lamentations of the Fellah, The Shipwrecked Sailor, The Adventure of Satni-Khamois with the Mummies, The Doomed Prince, and The Story of Rhampsinitus. This edition contains a new Foreword that introduces Maspero and describes his work, and provides for the first time extensive identifications of the ancient stories in terms of international tale-types and motifs. Certain to be of interest to folklorists, this classic collection will also amuse parents, students, storytellers, and anyone who enjoys authentic folk wisdom.
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Gaston Maspero was born on June 23, 1846, in Paris, to Jewish parents of Italian origin.
At school Maspero showed a special taste for history, and by the age of fourteen he was already interested in hieroglyphic writing.
Maspero taught Egyptian language at Paris, from 1869 until his appointment as professor at the Collège de France in 1874. In November 1880 he went to Egypt as head of an archaeological mission that grew into the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology.
Succeeding Auguste Mariette as director general of excavations and antiquities (1881–1886) for the Egyptian government, he recorded scenes and inscriptions from important tombs and continued Mariette’s museum work and excavation of the pyramids at Ṣaqqārah. In 1881 his suspicion that a royal tomb had been discovered by grave robbers led to the apprehension of a thief who revealed a tomb secreted in a cliff near Dayr al-Baḥrī. It contained 40 mummies, including those of the pharaohs Seti I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose III, and Ramses II, in inscribed sarcophagi, as well as a profusion of decorative and funerary artifacts. Maspero’s intensive study of these findings was published in Les Momies royales de Deir-el-Bahari (1889; "The Royal Mummies of Dayr al-Baḥrī").
After a period in Paris (1886–1889), he returned to Egypt and began arranging and cataloging the now-vast collection of antiquities that he and his predecessor Mariette had amassed at a museum in the Būlāq district of Cairo. This collection became the nucleus of the Egyptian Museum, which Maspero helped found in 1902. During his second, long tenure as director general (1899–1914), Maspero regulated excavations, tried to prevent illicit trade in antiquities, sought to preserve and strengthen monuments, and directed the archaeological survey of Nubia. His writings include Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique, 3 vol. (1895–1897; History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria), L’Archéologie égyptienne (1887; "Egyptian Archaeology"), Les Contes populaires de l’Égypte ancienne (4th ed. 1914; "Popular Tales of Ancient Egypt"), and Causeries d’Égypte (1907; "New Light on Ancient Egypt").
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero died on June 30, 1916.
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On November 11, 1871, Gaston Maspero married Ettie Harriet Yapp, they had two children, Georges and Isabelle. In 1880, he married Louise Estournelle de Constant, they also had two children, Henri and Jean.