Histoire Ancienne des peuples de l'orient: ouvrage contenant neuf cartes et quelques specimens des ecritures hieroglyphiques et cuneiformes.

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Small 8vo. VII, [1], 608, 24 pp. Figs., 9 color-tinted maps (single-page: 24; folding: pp. 136, 180, 200, 232, 296, 392, 472, 544, showing Egypt, Chaldea, Assyria, Syria, Israelites, Medes, Persia, etc.), ads.; some pencil underlining. Original printed wrappers; spine repaired with kozo. Very good. First edition. This is an abbreviated version of the later larger famous work, issued in three volumes, Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient Classique (3 vols., Paris, 1895â "1897). The text covers all of the Middle East, from ancient Egypt to the Egyptian conquest, the Assyrians, Medes, and Persian empires. / An appendix is devoted to ancient systems of writing with detailed examples as well as several alphabets and specimens of hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts. / Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG was a French Egyptologist. At university he excelled in Sanskrit as well as hieroglyphics. It was while Maspero was in final year at the Ecole normale in 1867 that friends mentioned his skills at reading hieroglyphics to Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who was in Paris as commissioner for the Egyptian section of the Exposition universelle. Mariette gave him two newly discovered hieroglyphic texts of considerable difficulty to study, and the young self-taught scholar produced translations of them in less than a fortnight, a great feat in those days when Egyptology was still almost in its infancy. [Wikip.]. See: Wilkinson, Toby. A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology (Hardbook). London: Picador. 2020, pp. 255â "258, 271, 273.

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Titel

Histoire Ancienne des peuples de l'orient: ouvrage contenant neuf cartes et quelques specimens des ecritures hieroglyphiques et cuneiformes.

Verlag

Hachette et cie, 1875., Paris :

Erscheinungsjahr

1875

Einband

Softcover

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