Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 180
ple, and here again the Egyptians,having proved themselves skilful imitators ofthe foreigner, returned to their secular habits.Thus, during these centuries of prosperity, alltheir natural talents and all their faculties ofinvention seem to have been concentrated ona single object, the perpetual… … HEAD OF AX ATI.AS OK THOTHMKS I.(Museum, Cairo). (Phot. Lcgrain.) kings whose souls wearied ofthe darkness of the hypogeum.They did not at once realisethe ideal they had set beforethemselves, and so many mo-numents have perished that weare no longer able to recon-stitute the series of forms…
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