An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature and Egyptian antiquities : Including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts /
Thomas Young (1773-1829) was an English physician who was one of the first modern scholars to attempt to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book, first published in 1823, provides a summary of Young's hieroglyphic research, which he believed Champollion had used without acknowledgement...
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Call Number: PJ1095 .Y6 2010
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| 245 | 1 | 3 | |a An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature and Egyptian antiquities : |b Including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts / |c By Thomas Young. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2010. | |
| 300 | |a xv, 160 pages ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface; 1. Introductory sketch of the prevalent opinions respecting hieroglyphics; 2. Investigations founded on the Pillar of Rosetta; 3. Additional inferences, deduced from the Egyptian manuscripts, and from other monuments; 4. Collections of the French; 5. Illustrations of the manuscripts brought from Egypt by Mr. Grey; 6. Extracts from Diodorus and Herodotus; relating to mummies; 7. Extracts from Strabo; Alphabet of Champollion; Hieroglyphical and Enchorial names; 8. Chronological history of the Ptolemies, extracted from various authors; Appendix 1. Greek text of the manuscripts and registries; Appendix 2. Specimens of hieroglyphics. | |
| 520 | |a Thomas Young (1773-1829) was an English physician who was one of the first modern scholars to attempt to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book, first published in 1823, provides a summary of Young's hieroglyphic research, which he believed Champollion had used without acknowledgement in his important 1822 translations. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Egyptian language |x Writing, Hieroglyphic. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) | |
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