A history of the art of bookbinding. With some account of the books of the ancients (1894)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Hannett, John, 1803-1893 · London, E. Stock · leaf 42
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. 19 the inscription should be engraved in hieroglyphical, enchorial, and Greek charactersupon hard stone, and a copy set up in most of the temples.1 It is this venerable stonethat has enabled Egyptologists to read the records of the Pharaohs, to reconstruct thehistory, and to… … kh::tr\-■■-■-■■ - v-i--;:.%.-.v■■■■■:■■■££■• . • ,^^r :;•■.■ :.. ■-•■■• , „■ , , ■■■■::■:: ggaga^ THE ROSETTA STONE. We have seen that among the Assyrians clay was the material par excellence usedfor literary purposes. In Egypt the papyrus reed furnished the paper on which thescribes chiefly wrote.…
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