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He would speak of me to him. The next Thursday Lepsius called on me. I know this because that day was reserved for his subsequent visits. After learning what progress I had made by my own industry, he told me what to do next, and lastly promised to come again. He had inquired about my previous education, and urged me to study philology, archaeology, and at least one Semitic language.
To this must be added that the entire nobility of the realm, the satraps or governors of the provinces, and the chief priests from every town were also assembled at Babylon to celebrate the king's birthday. Herod. Birthdays were held in much honor by the ancients, and more especially those of their kings. Lepsius, hieroglyphic text 1. 3.
Strange that the whole world should have been drowned and the Egyptians never knew it! From the "Types of Mankind," we learn that the fact is "asserted by Lepsius, and familiar to all Egyptologists, that negro and other races already existed in Northern Africa, on the Upper Nile, 2,300 years B.C." But this is only forty-eight years after the deluge. What kind of a family had Noah?
Marc Girardin, and Laboulaye in France, and Lepsius, Ritter, von Raumer, and Curtius in Germany, lecturing to large bodies of attentive students on the most interesting and instructive periods of human history, aroused in me a new current of ideas. Gradually I began to ask myself the question: Why not help the beginnings of this system in the United States?
"And on which you will print a most learned dissertation which will give you a place by the side of Champollion, Rosellini, Wilkinson, Lepsius, and Belzoni," said the young nobleman.
After my return from Wildbad Lepsius continued his Thursday visits, and during the succeeding winters still remained my guide, even when I had also placed myself, in the department of the ancient Egyptian languages, under the instruction of Heinrich Brugsch. At school, of course, I had not thought of studying Hebrew.
The detailed reasons for our opinion that Serbal is the Sinai of the Scriptures, which Lepsius expressed before its and others share with us may be found in our works: "Durch Gosen zum Sinai, aus dem Wanderbuch and der Bibliothek." 2 Aufl. Leipzig. 1882. Wilh. They pressed cautiously forward; for the remainder of the defeated Amalekites might be lying in ambush.
Subsequently such students as Rosellini the Italian, Lepsius the German, and Wilkinson the Englishman, entered the field, which in due course was cultivated by De Rouge in France and Birch in England, and by such distinguished latter-day workers as Chabas, Mariette, Maspero, Amelineau, and De Morgan among the Frenchmen; Professor Petrie and Dr.
Lepsius, who, for drawing attention to the fact that Germany allowed the Armenian massacres, has been arrested for high treason.
To this must be added that the entire nobility of the realm, the satraps or governors of the provinces, and the chief priests from every town were also assembled at Babylon to celebrate the king's birthday. Herod. Birthdays were held in much honor by the ancients, and more especially those of their kings. Lepsius, hieroglyphic text 1. 3.
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