Art and Archaeology, Vol. 5

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Excerpt from Art and Archaeology, Vol. 5: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, January, 1917-June, 1917Herodotus says, men do all things differently from other men, the land of the swiftly ¿owing Nile on whose mysterious rise and fall the people de pend for bread, the land where millions toiled to raise the eternal tombs of kings.The photograph of the chip of wood which the director Of the museum kindly sent me would no more give up its meaning than its original, but it brought good luck, for one of my pupils to whom I showed it said, Why, I have a piece of wood with writing On it. My grandfather got it in Egypt. But I don't know what it is. And he brought the piece Of wood with writing on it and made me a present of it.Here was added interest, for besides the Greek letters written on one side, the other side contained letters in some other alphabet which we supposed to be Egyptian.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.