The book of fate, formerly in the possession of Napoleon ... / now first rendered in to English from a German translation of an ancient Egyptian manuscript found in ... 1801 by M. Sonnini in one of the royal tombs near Mount Libycus, in Upper Egypt. By H. Kirchenhoffer.

Date:
1826
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Credit: The book of fate, formerly in the possession of Napoleon ... / now first rendered in to English from a German translation of an ancient Egyptian manuscript found in ... 1801 by M. Sonnini in one of the royal tombs near Mount Libycus, in Upper Egypt. By H. Kirchenhoffer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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