DISCOVERIES IN HIEROGLYPHICAL LITERATURE. HOWLETT and BRIMMER, PRINTERS, FRITH STREET, SOHO. AN ACCOUNT 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 CHAMPOLLION, WITH A TRANSLATION OF FIVE UNPUBLISHED GREEK AND EGYPTIAN MANUSCRIPTS. 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. VOLVENDA DIES EN ATTULIT ULTRO! CONTENTS. Page PREFACE IX CHAPTER I. _Introductory Sketch of the prevalent Opinions respecting Hieroglyphics_ 1 CHAPTER II. _Investigations founded on the Pillar of Rosetta_ 8 CHAPTER III. _Additional Inferences, deduced from the Egyptian Manuscripts, and from other Monuments_ 15 CHAPTER IV. _Collections of the French.--Mr. Drovetti.--Mr. Champollion’s Discoveries_ 34 CHAPTER V. _Illustrations of the Manuscripts brought from Egypt by Mr. Grey_ 55 CHAPTER VI. _Extracts from Diodorus and Herodotus; relating to Mummies_ 87 CHAPTER VII. _Extracts from Strabo; Alphabet of Champollion; Hieroglyphical and Enchorial Names_ 116 CHAPTER VIII. _Chronological History of the Ptolemies, extracted from various Authors_ 130 APPENDIX I. _Greek text of the Manuscripts and Registries_ 145 APPENDIX II. _Specimens of Hieroglyphics_ 153 PREFACE.