Note 343 — Chapter VI · THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.
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Proc. Soc. Antiq. second series, vol. v., June 1873. Mr. Hartland added rubbings of various Pharaohnic stones, hoping to ‘show how little the mind of civilised man has developed during 3,000 years.’ A pleasant lesson to humanity! But after all thirty centuries are a mere section of the civilisation which began in Egypt.