In the late nineteenth century, pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie (1853â€"1942) began excavations in the ruined city of Tanis, once the political centre of Lower Egypt. Reissued here together, these two illustrated excavation reports, published 1885â€"8, include material by Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862â€"1934) and Alexander Stuart Murray (1841â€"1904).