The history of ancient America, anterior to the time of Columbus; proving the identity of the aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by the Apostle St. Thomas / By George Jones. The Tyrian æra.

  • George, Count Joannes
Date:
1843
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Credit: The history of ancient America, anterior to the time of Columbus; proving the identity of the aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by the Apostle St. Thomas / By George Jones. The Tyrian æra. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wide, of which only a part remains. The stucco is of admirable consistency, and hard as stone. It was painted, [stained ?] and in different places about, we discovered the remains of red, blue, yellow, black, and white.” We have already called this edifice the Temple, believing it not to have been originally a palace. This distinction is nearly defined from the fact that hiero- glyphics are found upon the edifice : for hieroglyphics (2. e., sacred and symbolical writing) constitute the Religious language of nearly all the ancient nations,— but of Egypt especially. The laneuage of Religion and the Hieratic (that of the priests) were placed upon the sacred edifices, and being so placed, proved them to be Temples. Those languages were, also, painted upon mummy-cloths and coffins, or sculptured upon the outward granite Sarcophagii,—the Egyptians holding the rights of Sepulture in the most sacred estimation ; ~ for those rights were only granted upon a public in- vestigation of the character of the deceased, and a general verdict in his favour. ‘This post-mortem examination of character even the king was not ex- empt from, and the poorest subject of Egypt could bring his accusation against the deceased monarch, with the privilege of sustaining his charges by facts and argument,—for by the laws of Egypt every Egyptian was considered equal and noble with his countrymen,—Character and Talent being the only distinctions to entitle the deceased to sepulture, and
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