Природа и человек в древнем Египте

Even though we moderns

can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient…

we must as historians make the attempt.

John A. Wilson

I have tried to develop these themes

as constructively as the data allow,

realizing that I have often ventured

where more qualified Egyptologists

have feared to tread.

But understanding rather than perfection

is the goal of the scholarship,

and we must continue to reformulate and assess problems

with the data in hand.

The results must speak for themselves…

Karl W. Butzer