Volume 1

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 Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts / By Thomas Young.

  • Thomas Young
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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 Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts / By Thomas Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO ALEXANDER BARON VON HUMBOLDT, AS A MARK OF THE HIGHEST RESPECT, FOR THE EXTENT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE AND THE ACCURACY OF HIS RESEARCH, AS WELL AS FOR HIS ARDENT ZEAL IN THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCH, AND FOR HIS CANDOUR AND VIGILANCE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF LITERARY JUSTICE, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND, THE AUTHOR.
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