Cover of Nouvelle explication des hieroglyphes, ou des anciennes allegories sacrees des Egyptiens, suivie d'un resume alphabetique

Nouvelle explication des hieroglyphes, ou des anciennes allegories sacrees des Egyptiens, suivie d'un resume alphabetique

Alexandre Lenoir

Public domain

Paris 1809 (Musee des monumens francais) volume with eighteen plates by the museum director Alexandre Lenoir, a speculative pre-decipherment reading of hieroglyphs as sacred allegory. Printed more than a decade before the Rosetta decipherment.

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