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Excerpt from The Dwellers on the Nile, Vol. 8: Or Chapters on the Life, Literature, History and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians Before the present century every writer on Egypt was compelled to rely upon the statements of Greek and other historians, who not only Often misunderstood what they were told, but filled up their works in many places with Obsolete traditions and their own ideas. The day for this necessity, however, is now past, and though there are many difficulties yet to be overcome in the Egyptian language, still enough has been made out to Show how carelessly the religion and customs of the Egyptians have been represented by foreign writers. Pyramid and Obelisk, sarcophagus and coffin, stele and papyrus and leather have now spoken, and their inscriptions, ranging from 4000 b.c. To the time of Christ, have in a great measure yielded up the authentic history of the dwellers by the Nile; and its real bearing on the civilization Of the West, extending even to our own times, is now beginning to be rightly appreciated. 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.