This is the most comprehensive English to Middle Egyptian dictionary available, with about 8,000 entries, including almost all of the most common English words in use.It compares very favorably with Gardiner's English-Egyptian Vocabulary and Nichols' book, each containing only about 2,000 entries. This is the fifth book in Museum Tours "The Essentials" series, along with Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Hieroglyph Sign List, Egyptian Glyphary and The Names of the Kings of Egypt.