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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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aturally come in for a large shareof these excavations. Through the texts discovered within the pyramids atThebes and the surrounding district, the history of the early dynasties wasfor the first time revealed. At Balas and Nagadah, a short distance to thenorth of Memphis, the excavations have brought us face to face with theindigenous population of the Nile that maintained its primitive customs longafter those who founded the real Egyptian Empire had established themselvesin the country. In the district of the Fayum, notably around Arsinoe, atHawara, Illahun, and Gurob, traces of early foreign influence — Phoenicianand Greek — were discovered, while in Lower Egypt the towns of Naukratisand Tanis represent extensive Greek settlements made in Egypt as early,at least, as the seventh century b. c. Through the magnificent illustrationsin the tombs of Beni-Hassan, which have recently been carefully copied byEnglish artists, almost all phases of ancient Egyptian life have been revealed.
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236 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY Though dating from the eleventh and twelfth dynasties, the picture that theyafford applies to earlier and later periods as well. Thus, through the workdone in all parts of the ancient empire, the links uniting the earliest periodto the sway of the Ptolomies and the invasion of the Romans have beendetermined. Wonderful chapters, replete with interest, have been added tothe history of mankind, and though much remains to be done, we are muchnearer to a solution than ever before of that most important problem as to theorigin of the mysterious Egyptian culture. We know for a certainty thatwhen the Egyptians came to the region of the Nile, they found a fertiledistrict populated by a people, or by groups of people, that had already madesome progress on the road to civilization, though not yet knowing the useof metals. The Asiatic origin of the Egyptians is regarded as clearly estab-lished by so eminent an archaeologist as M. DeMorgan, though it i

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