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Egypt ; it originated when Osiinanphtha built the most 
famous monument of Egyptian architecture, the Osiman- 
dyeum, the colossal ruins of which are still to be seen at 
Kamak, and when Sesostris, 900 } T ears prior to Romulus, erected 
the large Obelisk, now placed near the Porta del Popolo, in 
Rome, the inscription upon which Hermapion translated into 
Greek during the reign of Augustus ; it solves the millennial 
riddle concerning the Egyptian and all ancient mythologies ; 
it confirms the key to the astronomical monuments of the 
ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans ; it brings the very 
chaos of Egyptian history into a reasonable system, and into 
perfect harmony with the true chronology of the Sacred Scrip- 
tures, as we shall see hereafter. It is true, Mr. Osburn, Jun., 
F.R.S., has alread} 7 published, thirty-two years ago, a learned 
Memoir concerning this same mummy ; but, in 1828, the 
key to the Egyptian literature, and to the astronomical 
monuments of the Ancients had not been discovered. It 
was not then known that no hieroglyph " symbolises" an idea, 
that, on the contrary, those 620 figures, used by the Egyptian 
hierogrammatists, express generally each a syllable, that is to 
say, the consonants contained in its name, (as has been proved 
in Seyffarth's "Grammatica .ZEgyptiaca," Leipsic, 1855. See 
also " Transactions of the Academy of Science/' St. Louis, 
Vol. I., No. 4, 1860.) It was still then believed that the 
Egyptian deities signified either eminent persons of former 
times, or fire, water, light, heat, thunder, cold, and the like ; 
or historical periods ; or metaphysical conceptions, as 
strength, wisdom, fidelity, justice, honesty, bravery ; or 
deified pow r ers of Nature, as volcanoes, ocean, mainland, 
lakes, rivers, valleys ; nobody had as yet discovered that the 
seven Cabiri, the twelve great gods, and the thirty-six demi- 
gods of the ancient nations, were the seven planets, the 
twelve signs of the zodiac, and the thirty-six zodiacal subdi- 
visions. As Mr. Osburn, who published an account of this 
