Preface - First paragraph
The genesis of this book goes back many years, when I asked myself what the name “Khufu” meant. King Khufu, sometimes referred to by his Greek name Cheops, is of course famous for being the builder of the Great Pyramid, and his name appears in countless writings on pharaonic Egypt. After parsing the various elements of the name and realizing that it meant “He protects me,” with the divine name Khnum added in some instances of the name (giving the full name “Khnum, he protects me”), I developed an interest in ancient Egyptian names in general. The fact that pharaohs took on a series of additional names at their coronation also intrigued me. Thus was born the idea of translating the more than one thousand names found in this book.
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