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Pimping antiquities, cracking the code, and weighing the talent.

Being Critical Is Easy; Finding Answers Is Difficult

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Endnotes

1.

Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, Recueil d’antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, greques et romaines (1761).

2.

Georg Zoega, In De Origine et Usu Obeliscorum (Rome, 1797), p. 465.

3.

Johan David Akerblad, “Lettre sur l’inscription égyptienne de Rosetta, addressée au Citoyen Silvestre de Sascy” (Paris, 1802).

4.

W.E. Rouse Boughton, “Letter to the Rev. S. Weston respecting some Egyptian antiquities, with four copper plates,” Archaeologia vol. XVIII (London, 1814), pp. 59–72.

5.

Boughton, Museum Criticum of Cambridge (1815).

6.

Jean-François Champollion, De l’Ecriture Hieratique, (Grenoble, 1821).

7.

Thomas Young, Hieroglyphics, Collected by the Egyptian Society, Cairo2 Vols. (London: Howlett and Brimmer, 1823–1828), pl. X ff.