ARCHAELOGISTS and travellers are earnestly studying the hieroglyphics on the pyramids, in their endeavours to throw added light on the lost culture of the Egyptians, and yet one great source of information on this subject, entirely within our reach an...
ARCHAELOGISTS and travellers are earnestly studying the hieroglyphics on the pyramids, in their endeavours to throw added light on the lost culture of the Egyptians, and yet one great source of information on this subject, entirely within our reach and command, is lost sight of and neglected. It would ordinarily appear natural to consult for such a purpose the writings of contemporary nations, and particularly of any most closely connected with the people under consideration, and specially of any one which had been intimately associated, as it were placed under their tuition, whose chief was educated by their initiated priests, and proved himself deeply learned in all the learning of the Egyptians.