Excerpt from Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum, Vol. 8: January, April, July and October, 1910 There was a fashion in mummy wrapping, as in other things, the length and breadth of the strips varied according to period and taste. In early times after linen was used, the dead were enshrouded in sheets, then with the new Empire came the fashion of bandages, and as early as the reign of King Amenhotep III. Texts were inscribed on the linen either in hieroglyphics or hieratic (cursive) characters, often adorned with vignettes from the Book of the Dead. After the XXVI Dynasty, that is, B. C. 670, only hieratic texts appear, With a vignette at the top of each column, and the bandages are often very coarse in texture In Greek ti111'.es, after B. C. 323, the outer bandages are decorated with gods, etc., in gaudy colors. Hundreds of yards of bandages were sometimes used. Soine are ended with a fringe, and some have selvedges. Their length _varies from three feet to thirteen feet, and their width from two to four and a half. The linen industry continued to be prosperously carried on in Egypt until the twelfth century of our era, but by this time the elaborate embroideries and tapestry borders which interest us at present had been evolved, had reached their highest artistic level and entered upon their decadent stage. 5. Y. S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.