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were revived and bestowed on sup-porters of the Saite monarchs. Early religious textswere studied and the scribes practised the ancient 126 THE EIGHTH ROOM hieroglyphs, now unintelligible to the mass of thepeople. In ordinary usage, a cursive writing, demotic,had developed from, and replaced… … FIG. 52. EXCAVATIONS AT THE TEMPLE OF HIBISIN THE KHARGA OASISSEASON I 909-1910 the Persians, with the exception of Darius I, were farfrom conciliatory, often wounding the religious sensi-bilities of their subjects, and thus making themselveshated as no oppressors before them had been. How-ever,…
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