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Lepsius

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[lep-see-oos] / ˈlɛp siˌʊs /

noun

  1. Karl Richard 1810–84, German philologist and Egyptologist.


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But a complete counterpart of the tablet of Memphis has been recently found at Abydos by M. Mariette, fully confirming the chronology of Manetho, and bearing out the views of Bunsen and Lepsius.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

The arrangement of Egyptian chronology proposed by Lepsius has for the first time introduced a well-considered system into the whole.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker

Lepcha, the, 547; language, 177 Lepsius, K. R., 76 sq.,

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

On the 10th of April, a paper was read from Prof. Lepsius on the height of the Nile valley in Nubia, which was formerly much greater than it is now.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

This Sothis period commenced either in the year 5702 B.C., or, according to the arrangement of Lepsius, with the year 4242 B.C.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker

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