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Excerpt from Bubastis (1887-1889) When I settled in 1887, with Mr. Griffith, on the well-known mounds of Tell Basta, where the dealers in antiquities have been working for years - the extent of which has been much reduced by the fellaheen digging for sebakh, or by the construction of the railway, and which Mariette had pronounced so little encouraging for scientific explorers - I was far from expecting such a large crop of monuments belonging to various epochs of Egyptian history, during a period of 4000 years. 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.