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Ancient Records of Egypt 
By JAMES HENRY BREASTED 
Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History in the University of Chicago 
Author of “ The History of Egypt” 
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FULL and reliable source-bos 
of Egyptian history is at last 
appear. After ten years of labe 
Professor James H. Breasted ofits 
to Egyptologists and students © 
history a corpus of Egyptian ® 
scriptions on a scale not previous 
attempted, and with a degree of # 
curacy never before equaled. 
fessor Breasted has copied with is 
own hand every Egyptian inscripy® 
in Europe and many of those ‘ 
Egypt. So thorough a end 
would have been impossible but fer 
his connection with the great Ear 
tian Dictionary in preparation by $ 
Royal Academies of pees! 
inaccuracy of even the best rea ee 
of ancient inscriptions is ent 
but it is believed that, with ¢ 
minute care that he has eee 
on the work, Professor Breas" 
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perishing material will prove definitive. Remote and dry as vee al 
appear to the layman, it proves on closer acquaintance to i ay af 
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human interest and romantic discoveries. It is hardly re san Oo 
expert linguist at the present day is in a position very differen a 
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even the best scholar of twenty years ago. So great cers docum 
the study of the language that a complete revision re 
imperatively demanded, d from the - 
The inscriptions are arranged chronologically and exten af congue? 
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records to the final loss of Egyptian independence by the cause sntroduct™ 
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and explanatory notes. While intended asa companion to ur 
of Egypt,” they have an independent value, and deserve 4 Pp 
of every student of ancient history. 
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