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 Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts /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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التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:
English
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Greek
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
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رقم الطلب: PJ1095 .Y6
جدول المحتويات:
- 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.