Moses and the monuments : light from archaeology on Pentateuchal times
Melvin Grove Kyle's 1920 study from Oberlin, Ohio, argued Egyptian and Near Eastern archaeology against the Pentateuch for American Bible students and seminarians. Line redrawings copy tomb and papyrus reliefs — enthroned Osiris, the weighing of the heart, brickmakers, bakers, and porters in registers — giving flat profile figures, hieroglyph blocks, and banded friezes usable as borders and silhouettes.
