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“Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.”

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Amelia B. Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards

Amelia B. Edwards was a British novelist and Egyptologist, born on June 7, 1831, and died on April 15, 1892. She is renowned for her historical novels and her substantial contributions to the study of ancient Egypt. more

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