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The way that European religious and worldly scholars understood Egyptian and Chinese writing depended upon their own contemporary anxieties about the nature of truth , and the legitimacy of claims about the Bible and human history .
The way that European religious and worldly scholars understood Egyptian and Chinese writing depended upon their own contemporary anxieties about the nature of truth , and the legitimacy of claims about the Bible and human history .
Page 104
his patron , Pope Alexander VI , was descended from the Egyptian Heracles ( son of Osiris ) . The Borgia family crest's bull was also identified with the Osiran Apis . Annius , employed as a Borgia secretary , gave way to the medieval ...
his patron , Pope Alexander VI , was descended from the Egyptian Heracles ( son of Osiris ) . The Borgia family crest's bull was also identified with the Osiran Apis . Annius , employed as a Borgia secretary , gave way to the medieval ...
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( 475 ) The Greeks attached Greek endings to Egyptian words and publicized Egypt first . Voltaire sees the Egyptian comparison as an insult to the contemporary Chinese , since the Egyptians did not even grow wheat , dug canals from the ...
( 475 ) The Greeks attached Greek endings to Egyptian words and publicized Egypt first . Voltaire sees the Egyptian comparison as an insult to the contemporary Chinese , since the Egyptians did not even grow wheat , dug canals from the ...
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