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LECTURE I.
The Sources of Information respecting the Ancient Egyptian Religion. |
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Early Christians on the Egyptian worship | | 1 |
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Heathen writers on the same subject | | 2 |
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How far can such evidence be relied upon | | 4 |
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Modern attempts at investigation | | 9 |
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Decipherment of hieroglyphic writing | | 11 |
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Recovery of the ancient language | | 20 |
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Publication of Egyptian texts | | 22 |
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Most of the texts are of a religious nature | | 26 |
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LECTURE II.
Antiquity and Characteristics of Egyptian Civilization. |
Egyptian chronology depends upon monuments recording contemporary facts | | 32 |
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Monuments mentioning the year of a reign | | 33 |
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