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T.GYTTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS.
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To the Editor . Sir , A valuable correspondent , in a former number , enriched your pages
with some most interesting observations on points arising out of the recent discoveries in Egyptian Hieroglyphics . His remarks assume an acquaintance on the part of your readers with the general nature of those discoveries ,
and he also refers to the sources of information on the subject ; but perhaps you will not think a small space ill employed by an attempt to transfer to your pages a short summary of the history and progress of the late inquiries , in which of course you will understand me as aiming only at a very humble office , compared with that of your former correspondent . The Monuments of Egyptian art seem built for eternity ; but , till lately , they spoke to us only in the permanence and magnitude of their outward forms . The obscurity and ignorance in which the remains of ancient
literature engraved upon them all , have been for ages involved , appeared doomed never to be removed . But even this part of the labour of the artist is likely at last not to have been in vain . The revelation of his object , in an age which perpetuates its discoveries even on more durable materials than the rock , will give it a new immortality , now that the book which he left before the eye of the curious is doomed , after the revolution , not of centuries , but of milleniums , to be read and understood , as asserting and vindicating the title of the Egyptians to be considered the patrons and cultivators x ) f the arts when the rest of the world was plunged in hopeless barbarism .
That the monuments of the ancient dynasties of the kings of Egypt , of her Pharaohs , or even her Ptolemies , should now be in a state of preservation , enabling the antiquarian to trace the characters of their inscriptions , is sufficiently wonderful ; but no one expected , after the fruitless research of so many ages , to see the day when they would be deciphered and
understood , and when the spectator would readily develope the records of time extending beyond the conception of the most sanguine observer . It is perhaps wrong to despair of receiving new sources of information on ¦ any topics of historical inquiry . Within a short time the ancient history of Eusebius has been restored , to enlighten us on many points of antiquarian controversy : and now a few ingenious inquirers have hit , as it were by
T.Gyttian Hieroglyphics.
T . GYTTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS .
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW .
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NEW SERIES , No . VII .
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VOL . I . 2 I
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JULY , 1827 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/1/
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