Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This fully illustrated report of 1900 gives detailed descriptions of six first-dynasty tombs at Abydos examined by Petrie, and of the associated finds.

This fully illustrated excavation report on the early Egyptian royal tombs at Abydos was first published in 1900.