A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels Into the Interior of That Country: Executed Under the Orders of the British Government, In the Years 1809 and 1810 ... On the East Coast of Africa, Visited In

Salt, Henry

Travel

Franklin Classics

The Life And Adventures Of Nathaniel Pearce: Written By Himself During A Residence In Abyssinia From The Years 1810 To 1819 : Together With Mr. Coffin's Account Of His Visit To Gondar; Volume 1

Pearce, Nathaniel

Coffin, MR

History

Sixty haiku

R. I. Barycz

An accounting of the late haunting at the house of Mr. Appleby, a tanner, of Skinningrave, from his own report as given thereafter to Capt. Allen (since Gent. Usher to her present Majesty): A poem

A Voyage To Abyssinia, And Travels Into The Interior Of That Country

Legare Street Press

The Life And Adventures Of Nathaniel Pearce: Written By Himself During A Residence In Abyssinia From The Years 1810 To 1819: Together With Mr. Coffin's Account Of His Visit To Gondar; Volume 1

Africa

<p>Appointed Britain's consul-general in Egypt in 1815, Henry Salt (1780-1827) involved himself deeply in the excavation of several historic sites and the collection of numerous antiquities. The most notable of these, found at Thebes, was the colossal bust of Rameses II which was acquired by the British Museum and is believed to have inspired Shelley's 'Ozymandias'. This 1825 publication, featuring Salt's careful reproductions and explanations of various inscriptions, made a valuable contribution to the understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Following the innovative work on the Rosetta Stone carried out by Thomas Young, and the celebrated decipherment presented in 1822 by Jean-François Champollion, Salt helped to further elucidate the hieroglyphic alphabet, although later research has disproved some of his conclusions. A postscript notes how Champollion's 1824 Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens (also reissued in this series) confirms several names of Egyptian gods and pharaohs which Salt had independently deciphered.</p>

Essay on Dr Young's and M. Champollion's Phonetic System of Hieroglyphics: With Some Additional Discoveries, by Which It May Be Applied to Decipher ... (Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Cambridge University Press

Essay on Dr. Young's and M. Champollion's Phonetic System of Hieroglyphics: With Some Additional Dis

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