The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . le Normale in 1865. He began to lecture onEgyptology at the school of higher studies inParis, in 1869, and in 1874 was appointed pro-fessor of Egyptology at the College of 1881 he founded a school of Egyptian archse-ology at Cairo, and succeeded Mariette Bey asdirector of explorations and custodian of theBoulak Museum. In 1886 he became professorat the Institute of Paris. As an explorer he hasexcavated or opened the pyramids of the kingsbelonging to the fifth and sixth dynasties and theburial-fiel
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . le Normale in 1865. He began to lecture onEgyptology at the school of higher studies inParis, in 1869, and in 1874 was appointed pro-fessor of Egyptology at the College of 1881 he founded a school of Egyptian archse-ology at Cairo, and succeeded Mariette Bey asdirector of explorations and custodian of theBoulak Museum. In 1886 he became professorat the Institute of Paris. As an explorer he hasexcavated or opened the pyramids of the kingsbelonging to the fifth and sixth dynasties and theburial-fields of Sakkara and Dashiir, and dis-covered new sepulchral sites of great value at Deir el-Bahari, near the entrance to the valley ofthe Tombs of the Kings, at Ekhmim, 130 milessouth of Thebes, and at other places. He is theauthor of Essai sur IInscription Dedicatoire auTemple dAbydos (1869) ; Histoire A?tcienne des Peu-ples de rOrient (1875); Etudes de Mythologie etArcheologie Egyptienne, etc. A translation, byAmelia B. Edwards, of his Manual of EgyptianArchmology, appeared in STATE SE.\L OF MASSACHUSETTS. MASS. See Missal, Vol. XVI, pp. 508, 511. MASSACHUSETTS. See Vol. XV, pp. 611-616, for article of recent date. The census of 1890 gave the population of thestate at 2,238,943, of whom 1,087,709 were malesand 1,151, 234 were females. The twelfth censustaken in 1900, under National authority, showeda material increase, a total of 2,805,346, or a gainof per cent for the ten years area of the state is 8,040 square milesMassachusetts had, at the time of the taking ofthe last decennial census, a greater number of
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