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Excerpt from Paganism and Christianity in Egypt The little work which is now given to the public was produced by a scholar whose sudden death in February 1911, before he had completed his twenty-ninth year, came as a painful surprise to his many friends. After a training in Semitic languages at Cambridge, he entered the British Museum in December 1903, becoming an assistant in the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities. From that time his attention was mainly given to Egyptian research (including a visit to Egypt), but he also found time to edit an important Syriac text - the letters of îshô' - yahbh - which issued from the press in 1904. His friends and colleagues, Mr Leonard W. King and Mr H. R. Hall, have acted as editors of the present volume and have supplied the following summary of his other work during his service in the Museum. In October and November of 1905 he was engaged, in conjunction with Mr J. W. Crowfoot, in clearing out the XVIIIth dynasty temple at Wady Haifa, of which he published a description, with plan and photographs, in the Proc, Soc. Bibl. Arch Jan. 9, 1907, pp. 39 ff. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.