An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities
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- including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts
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1. DISCOVERIES IN HIEROGLYPHICAL LITERATURE.2. PREFACE.3. WORKS OF THE AUTHOR;4. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE PREVALENT OPINIONS RESPECTING HIEROGLYPHICS.5. CHAPTER II. INVESTIGATIONS FOUNDED ON THE PILLAR OF ROSETTA.6. CHAPTER III. ADDITIONAL INFERENCES, DEDUCED FROM THE EGYPTIAN MANUSCRIPTS, AND FROM OTHER MONUMENTS.7. CHAPTER IV COLLECTIONS OF THE FRENCH. MR. DROVETTI. MR. CHAMPOLLION’S DISCOVERIES.8. CHAPTER V. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANUSCRIPTS BROUGHT FROM EGYPT BY MR. GREY.9. CHAPTER VI. EXTRACTS FROM DIODORUS AND HERODOTUS; RELATING TO MUMMIES.10. CHAPTER VII. EXTRACTS FROM STRABO; ALPHABET OF CHAMPOLLION; HIEROGLYPHICAL AND ENCHORIAL NAMES.11. CHAPTER VIII. CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE PTOLEMIES, EXTRACTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS.12. APPENDIX I.13. APPENDIX II.