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Maspero

American  
[mas-puh-roh] / mas pəˈroʊ /

noun

  1. Sir Gaston Camille Charles 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.


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Ma-Shona, the, 104 Maspero, G., 270, 493 n.,

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

Professor Maspero has shown that the 64th chapter, once considered one of the oldest, is in reality one of the latest in date.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

The Pyramid texts, a vast collection of incantations inscribed on the inner walls of five royal tombs of the Vth and VIth Dynasties at Sakkāra, discovered and first published by Maspero.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

Such men as Breasted of Chicago, and Maspero, would probably take from three hundred to five hundred years from this date.

From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh

Then he conducted him from the kitchen-garden to the house, talking of some obscure Professor Maspero, and of his secret method of combating oidium.

From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Antonio Fogazzaro

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