The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . each occasion feeling thatnothing had been done to help him to understand theimportance of a number of objects which guide-books andexperts told him were famous and of the greatest valueto the artist, ethnographer, philologist, and historian. Thatmarvellous man Mariette had gathered together from allparts a series of unique specimens of Egyptian sculptureand art of the earliest dynasties, and had, owing to theparsimony of the Egyptian government, been obliged tohouse them in the buildings of an old post-office at Bulak,and thither, for several years,
The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . each occasion feeling thatnothing had been done to help him to understand theimportance of a number of objects which guide-books andexperts told him were famous and of the greatest valueto the artist, ethnographer, philologist, and historian. Thatmarvellous man Mariette had gathered together from allparts a series of unique specimens of Egyptian sculptureand art of the earliest dynasties, and had, owing to theparsimony of the Egyptian government, been obliged tohouse them in the buildings of an old post-office at Bulak,and thither, for several years, the curious of all nations benttheir steps. As his great excavations went on, the collectionat Bulak became larger, until at last it was found necessaryto store coffins, sarcophagi, mummies, stelae, stone statues,etc., in the sheds attached to the buildings like boxes ofpreserved meats in a grocers shop. With the arrival of theDer el-Bahari mummies and coffins the crowding of objectsbecame greater, for the civilized world demanded that a.
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