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Excerpt from By-Paths of Bible Knowledge The decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia have been, without doubt, the greatest philological discoveries of the nineteenth century. The long uh discovered and, until recently, unread monuments of one of the greatest empires that has ever ourished upon earth have now started up into a new life, and by means of the scholarship of to-day have revealed their true testimony as to the part Egypt played in the council of the nations. From the times of the Greeks downwards Egypt has been regarded as a land of mystery. The world generally never under stood its religion or its customs, and the country, the gift of the Nile, was considered to have existed from all eternity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.