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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
- CHAPTER I Introductory Sketch of the Prevalent Opinions respecting Hieroglyphics
- CHAPTER II Investigations founded on the Pillar of Rosetta
- CHAPTER III Additional Inferences, deduced from the Egyptian Manuscripts, and from other Monuments
- CHAPTER IV Collections of the French.—Mr. Drovetti.—Mr. Champollion's Discoveries
- CHAPTER V Illustrations of the Manuscripts brought from Egypt by Mr. Grey
- CHAPTER VI Extracts from Diodorus and Herodotus; relating to Mummies
- CHAPTER VII Extracts from Strabo; Alphabet of Champollion; Hieroglyphical and Enchorial Names
- CHAPTER VIII Chronological History of the Ptolemies, extracted from various Authors
- APPENDIX I Greek text of the Manuscripts and Registries
- APPENDIX II Specimens of Hieroglyphics
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
- CHAPTER I Introductory Sketch of the Prevalent Opinions respecting Hieroglyphics
- CHAPTER II Investigations founded on the Pillar of Rosetta
- CHAPTER III Additional Inferences, deduced from the Egyptian Manuscripts, and from other Monuments
- CHAPTER IV Collections of the French.—Mr. Drovetti.—Mr. Champollion's Discoveries
- CHAPTER V Illustrations of the Manuscripts brought from Egypt by Mr. Grey
- CHAPTER VI Extracts from Diodorus and Herodotus; relating to Mummies
- CHAPTER VII Extracts from Strabo; Alphabet of Champollion; Hieroglyphical and Enchorial Names
- CHAPTER VIII Chronological History of the Ptolemies, extracted from various Authors
- APPENDIX I Greek text of the Manuscripts and Registries
- APPENDIX II Specimens of Hieroglyphics
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- An Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature and Egyptian AntiquitiesIncluding the Author's Original Alphabet, as Extended by Mr. Champollion, with a Translation of Five Unpublished Greek and Egyptian Manuscripts, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010