A History of Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 1 by Georges Perrot Hardcover Book

by Georges Perrot Hardcover

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The Nile on eBay A History of Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 1 by Georges Perrot The successful interpretation of the ancient writings of Egypt, Chald a, and Persia, which has distinguished our times, makes it necessary that the history of antiquity should be rewritten. Documents that for thousands of years lay hidden beneath the soil, and inscriptions which, like those of Egypt and Persia, long offered themselves to the gaze of man merely to excite his impotent curiosity, have now been deciphered and made to render up their secrets for the guidance of the historian. By the help of those strings of hieroglyphs and of cuneiform characters, illustrated by paintings and sculptured reliefs, we are enabled to separate the truth from the falsehood, the chaff from the wheat, in the narratives of the Greek writers who busied themselves with those nations of Africa and Asia which preceded their own in the ways of civilization. Day by day, as new monuments have been discovered and more certain methods of reading their inscriptions elaborated, we have added to the knowledge left us by Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, to our acquaintance with those empires on the Euphrates and the Nile which were already in old age when the Greeks were yet struggling to emerge from their primitive barbarism. FORMATHardcover CONDITIONBrand New Details ISBN1639239618 Author Georges Perrot Pages 540 Publisher Lushena Books Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781639239610 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-05-09 Imprint Lush

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781639239610
• Condition: Fine

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