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Excerpt from The Gliddon Mummy-Case in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution This Washington fragment (the only one I have seen) is represented in the annexed colored engraving; and on examination before and after visiting Egypt, appeared to me, to belong to an early period; conviction gradually strengthening, that it is one of the oldest, if not the oldest specimen of hieroglyphic writing known. 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.