OF SOME RECENT DISCOVERIES IN HIEROGLYPHICAL LITERATURE, AND EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. INCLUDING THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL ALPHABET, AS EXTENDED BY MR. CHAMPOLLION, WITH A TRANSLATION OF FIVE UNPUBLISHED GREEK AND BY THOMAS YOUNG, M. D. F. R.S. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1823. TO ALEXANDER BARON VON HUMBOLDT, AS A MARK OF THE HIGHEST RESPECT, FOR THE EXTENT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE AND THE ACCURACY OF HIS RESEARCH, AS WELL AS FOR HIS ARDENT ZEAL IN THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE, AND FOR HIS CANDOUR AND VIGILANCE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF LITERARY JUSTICE, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. |