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> > > > is "Early Dynastic Egypt" by
> Wilkinson
> > a
> > > coffee
> > > > table book?
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> > > >
> > > > are the works of Petrie, a coffee
> table
> > > book?
> > > >
> > > > How about Stadelmann. Fahkry,
> Verner?
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> > > >
> > > > Disinformation is NOT informative
> Rick
> > >
> > > It's not disinformation it's what I've
> found
> > to be
> > > true, if you go to a bookstore you sure
> as
> > hell
> > > won't find any of those authors.
> >
> >
> > Maybe not in the local shopping mall store,
> but
> > there are lots of olde book stores, and then
> > there's a new fangled thingee called the
> internet
> > with options like Amazon, Ebay, and yes even
> > Egyptology specialty outlets.
>
> Wow. The internet has things for sale who would
> have thunk. Hey, you left out libraries,
> universities, and interlibrary loans all which
> I've used too.
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> > > >
> > > > "only editors read between the
> lines"
> > >
> > > You ought to try reading the lines
> first.
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> >
> > Obviously the Point of my signature is lost
> on you
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> No the point wasn't lost at all.
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> >
> >
> > I'm sorry that you have such a superficial
> > appreciation of the subject
>
> Yeah right. Once upon a time I worked my way
> through a fair hunk of Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar
> and was translating some of the BOD from printed
> copies that I had. In the OK I was strictly
> interested in the Pyramid Texts, those fascinating
> works. Pyramids were boring. They've been picked
> over for millenia. I spent most of my time in
> Amarna and after that TIP before ending with
> Ptolemaic studies. Once Hawass came to power and
> initiated his scorched earth policy against
> Egyptologists. I left the field, once he was
> overthrown I returned to see what was going on not
> much changed with the new dynasty. The amount of
> new information is about the same as when I left
> it. The most notable exception to that is Waggy's
> research where he's done an absolutely amazing job
> of bringing together disparate source material
> from dozens of different sources. At which point
> I and a couple of other people urged him to put it
> in a book and publish it. Anyhow I'll leave you
> all to your musings on what the third chip in the
> wall on the second tier of stones in the north
> wall of the queen's chamber means. I've got more
> important things to do.
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> >
> > Warwick
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> >
> > "only editors read between the lines"
> > W.L.Nixon Oct/2010
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> Edited 1 times. Last edit at 02/01/18 03:45PM by
> Rick Baudé.
strange then that you post to an ancient Egypt messaageboard
Warwick
" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
association on these boards is the broad
misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."
Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019