. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ops ; and any peasant woman 1 Statue of Ûsiri (VIth dynasty) in the Gizeh Museum. From a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey. 2 According to Virchow (Anthropologie JEgyptens, i. 1), this impression is not borne out by Orientalists, especially Birch (Egypt from the Earliest Times to 309-310) and Sayce(The Ancient Empires of the East, pp. 309, 310), have noted considerable differences of type amongthe personages represented upon monuments of different periods. Virchow (Die Humien der Kônigeim Museum von Bulaq, p. 17, cf. Sitzungsberic
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ops ; and any peasant woman 1 Statue of Ûsiri (VIth dynasty) in the Gizeh Museum. From a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey. 2 According to Virchow (Anthropologie JEgyptens, i. 1), this impression is not borne out by Orientalists, especially Birch (Egypt from the Earliest Times to 309-310) and Sayce(The Ancient Empires of the East, pp. 309, 310), have noted considerable differences of type amongthe personages represented upon monuments of different periods. Virchow (Die Humien der Kônigeim Museum von Bulaq, p. 17, cf. Sitzungsberichte of the Academy of Berlin, 1888, pp. 782. 783, andAnthropologie JEgyptens, i. 1) has endeavoured to show that the difference was even greater than hadbeen stated, because the ancient Egyptian was brachycephalic, while the modern is dolichocephalic. 3 Description de lÉgypte, Ant, vol. ii. pL xlix. fig. 1, and Jomards text (vol. ii. pp. 78, 79) : Ionce tried to sketch a Turkish coiffure, on a head copied from a mummy, and asking some one to. AN EGYPTIAN OP THE ORDINARY
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