Maspero
Americannoun
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M. Maspero conceives, once more, that the Egyptians were "proto-Semitic," ethnologically related to the people of Eastern Asia, and the grammar of their language has Semitic affinities.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
Professor Maspero says that an oven for baking bread was to be found in the courtyard of every house in Chaldaea; close by were kept the grinding stones.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
Ma-Shona, the, 104 Maspero, G., 270, 493 n.,
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
But the best proof of its artificial nature is to be found in a fact first pointed out by Professor Maspero.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The Queens of Egypt: with a preface by Maspero.
From The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
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