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Excerpt from Under Egypt's Skies When I am asked, as, I am sure to be, why I have written this little book about a land of which scribes, poets, historians and archaeologists have ieit no thought unsaid, no stone of research untumed, what answer shall I make? All the splendid work of these are as familiar to the world as Egypt's ruins to the sun; 'what answer? 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.