Transactions of the Second Session of the International Congress of Orientalists: Held in London in September, 1874Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas Trübner & Company, 1876 - 456 pages |
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... century has seen the revival of Oriental learning , and the great discoveries made throughout the East , in ... centuries ago . This has been due to several causes , chiefly to the improved facilities of access , by which travellers and ...
... century has seen the revival of Oriental learning , and the great discoveries made throughout the East , in ... centuries ago . This has been due to several causes , chiefly to the improved facilities of access , by which travellers and ...
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... century . Empires have been exhumed , and for the first time a contemporary history of recorded events has been found . In Egypt the more recent excavations of M. Mariette have added con- siderably to the knowledge of history and ...
... century . Empires have been exhumed , and for the first time a contemporary history of recorded events has been found . In Egypt the more recent excavations of M. Mariette have added con- siderably to the knowledge of history and ...
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... centuries B.c. to almost a century A.D. , or the days of the Roman Empire . The discovery of the reading of the Cuneiform by Grote- fend in 1803 was one of the most marvellous applications to the resolution of the problem of an extinct ...
... centuries B.c. to almost a century A.D. , or the days of the Roman Empire . The discovery of the reading of the Cuneiform by Grote- fend in 1803 was one of the most marvellous applications to the resolution of the problem of an extinct ...
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... century , and the difficulty of solving the mystery has always been a reproach to the power of decipherment and interpretation exhibited in the rapid progress made in the Semitic Cuneiform and Hamitic Egyptian . Since the work of Lanzi ...
... century , and the difficulty of solving the mystery has always been a reproach to the power of decipherment and interpretation exhibited in the rapid progress made in the Semitic Cuneiform and Hamitic Egyptian . Since the work of Lanzi ...
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... century B.C. It is a problem yet to be solved , what was the oldest Aryan alphabet ? Was it Greek , Syrian , or Lycian ? As yet none is known older than the seventh century B.C. , and of course they are all comparatively recent compared ...
... century B.C. It is a problem yet to be solved , what was the oldest Aryan alphabet ? Was it Greek , Syrian , or Lycian ? As yet none is known older than the seventh century B.C. , and of course they are all comparatively recent compared ...
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