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Excerpt from Outlines of Ancient: Egyptian History For some time past I have been asked, both in England and abroad, to recommend a short history of Ancient Egypt, to which my reply has invariably been - Mariette's 'Aperçu.' There is no history so concise or so comprehensive; though, as its name says, it is but an outline. To bring it within the reach of those who cannot, or who do not care to read it in the original, and so to make it better known to both the English and American public, has been my object in translating it. In doing so, I have endeavoured to give the entire sense of Mariette's words in readable English, rather than in an elaborate word-for-word translation. 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.