(DOWNLOAD) "Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai" by Carl Richard Lepsius # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai
- Author : Carl Richard Lepsius
- Release Date : January 09, 2014
- Genre: Ancient,Books,History,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4037 KB
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Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1853 edition by Henry G. Bohn, London.
This is an illustrated edition. Oversize maps are available as a free download.
Karl (or Carl) Richard Lepsius (23 December 1810 – 10 July 1884) was a pioneering Prussian Egyptologist and linguist and pioneer of modern archaeology. This is the account of expeditions to Egypt, Sudan, Ethiophia and the Sinai to explore and record the remains of the ancient Egyptian civilization. Among other things Lepsius discovered over sixty-seven pyramids and more than 130 tombs of noblemen in the area.