Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 300
anguage. It looked for all the world just likea lot of pictures. You must know that, ages before the dawnof history, there was no such thing as an al-phabet. Letters had not been invented, andwhen people wished to send a written messageanywhere, they did it by making pictures ofwhat they wished to… … THE SPHINX TO-DAY You may imagine thatit was a very long, tedi-ous process to write inthis way. This is thekind of writing whichMr. Caviglia found onthe stone in the littlehouse between the pawsof the Sphinx. It iscalled the ancientEgyptian hieroglyphicwriting. A French-man named Champol-lion first…
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