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Episode: History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 1, by Gaston Maspero. Part IV.
Description: History Of Egypt, ChaldĂŠa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, âHistoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classiqueâ and published in 1903-1904. Maspero was a largely self-taught master of hieroglyphic translation. In November 1880, he was placed at the head of a French archeological mission, which developed later into the Institut Français dâArchĂ©ologie Orientale. Maspero then succeeded Mariette as director-general of excavations and of the antiquities of Egypt.âAware that his reputation was then more as a lingui...