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adjust your volume. Take a nice steep breath.

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Now let's get to the reading.

Tonight's book comes by way of recommendation from listener Jeremy Zenith,

and it is absolutely perfect for this podcast.

Tonight we're reading,

The Manual of Egyptian Archaeology

and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

by Gaston Camille Charles Maspero D.C. L. Oxford,

member of the Institute of France, Professor at the College of France, France, Ex-director-General of Egyptian museums, translated by Amelia B. Edwards. New Edition new edition, revised and enlarged by the author with 309 illustrations

published in 1995. Let's begin. Preface to the fourth and revised edition.

Notwithstanding the fact that Egyptology is now recognized as a science, an exact and communicable

knowledge of whose existence in scope, it behooves all modern culture to take cognizance.

This work of Monsieur Maspero still remains the handbook of Egyptian archaeology.

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