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 follow-up report of 1901 gives descriptions of eight royal tombs at Abydos examined by Petrie, and of the associated finds.

This fully illustrated follow-up excavation report on the early Egyptian royal tombs at Abydos was first published in 1901.