Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon.

  • Nott, Josiah C. (Josiah Clark), 1804-1873.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G deemed by Parisian science that, at national expense, he was appointed to continue the great folios of Champollion; (405) at the same time that his contributions to the Revue ArcMologique are standard documents for posterity. Last though not least, in Egypt itself resides a gentleman, affluent and influential, versed in many branches of ancient lore as thoroughly as 30 years of domicile have familiarized him with modern affairs, who never allows an opportunity of advancing archaeological science to escape him ; nor will any Egyptian student mistake our allusions to A. C. Harris. (400) No clap-trap pretensions to acquaintance with hieroglyphical arcana recently made by theologers who speak not any continental tongue through which alone these subjects are accessible—no “ad captandum ” figments of the possession of Oriental knowledge when men cannot spell a monosyllable written in the Hebrew alphabet — detract from the Memphite exhumations conducted at French ministerial expense by a Mariette; for whose enormous discoveries in the Serapeum, as yet confined to reports, we wait impatiently. ’T were well if, in view of the contemptuous silence wdth which Egyptologists treat their publications, some writers on these matters were to become readers. Our part, however, is to indicate to the reader those sources upon which Egyptian chro- nology is dependent at the present day, in regard to the date of the first Pharaoh, Menes : a personage considered, in the subjoined works; to be historical; and neither connected with the mythical Mestrceans invented by the Syncellus (407) in the seventh century after c.; nor, except nationally, with the MTsRIM (not Mizraim) of the Hebrew Text, whom, in our examination of Xth Genesis, we have proved to be nothing more or less than the “Egyptians,” inhabitants of MiZR, Muss’r; the Semitic name of “Merter,” Egypt [sujira, p. 494] : — * 1S39, Paris Authorities. Lenormant : Cercueil de Mycerinus— IA'th Dyn. (p. 24) “ Mycerinus, la Add Hid “ Africanus “ lid “ “ « 1st « “ Dates of Menes. b. c. date de 4136 avant J. C.” “ 214 “ « 302 « « 263 « 1840, Paris Champollion-Figeac : Vflgyple Ancimne 1845, Berlin Bockh: Manetho und die Hundssternperiocle 1845, Turin Barucchi : Discorsi Critici sopra la Cronologia Egizia 1845, Hamburg Bunsf.n : sFgyptens Stelle in der Wdtgeschichte 1846, Paris Henrt : V&gypte Pharaonique 1848, Paris Lesueur: Chronologic des lictis cCfigypte 1849, Berlin Lepsius : Chronologic der JEgypter... 1851, Dublin Hincks: Turin Papyrus 1S51, London Kenrice : Egypt under the Pharaohs 1854, Philadelphia.. Pickering: Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants. 4915 5867 5702 4890 3643 6303 5773 3S93 3895 3<“2 4400 The views of the authors of Types of Mankind, while with Humboldt, (408) for reasons to be given anon, they follow Lepsius, incline to the longer rather than to the shorter period. Ampbre’s opinion has been previously cited. The following is that of the first hierologist of France, Count Em. de Rough, Conservator at the Louvre Museum: — “ Les efforts de M. de Bunsen seraient la meilleure preuve du contraire; aprbs avoir, sans bgard pour l’histoire et les monumens, suppose des r<<gnes constamment collateraux, trois dynasties 4 la fois et huit ou dix rois simullanSs pendant la moitih des 12 premibres dynas- ties, il n’en fixe pas moins le regne de Minks k l’an 3643 av. J. C. L’obstinb fils de Cha- naan, mutilb a\rec acharnement pendant 3 volumes, se releve cnfin de ce lit de Procuste oil l’avait 4tendu sou critique impitoyable, et l’on s’apperijoit alors qu’il dbpasse encore de plu- (405) Continuation des Monumens; 100 plates; 184S; — Papyrus f'.gyptien; 1849. (406) Mr. Harris’s contributions, in the Trans, of the R. Soc. of Literature, the Revue Archiologique, and in the pages of several Egyptologists, are too numerous for specification here: but we may refer to his papyrus, “Fragments of an Oration against Demosthenes,” London, 1848; also to the papyric fragments of “Boohs of Homer” (Alhenceum, 8 Sept. 1849), and of the “Grammarian Tryplion” (Athenceum, 7 Dec. 1850): while of the very important work — “ Hieroglyphical Standards representing Places in Egypt supposed to be Nomes ana Toparchies, collected by A. C. Harris,” M. R. S. L., 1852 — his kindness allows us to acknowle |ge receipt. (407) Letronne: in Biot’s Annie Vague des ftgyptiens ; p. 25: — supra, p. 494. (408) Cbsmos ; ii. pp. 114,115,124: — supra, p. 245.