Pl. I. Track of the Arians from the Primeval Country to facing p. 456 The following Plates are placed at the end of the Volume. Pl. II. Plan of Thebes. III. Plan of the Palace at Karnak (after Lepsius). IV. Plan and Longitudinal Section of the Palace at Karnak. EGYPT'S PLACE IN UNIVERSAL HISTORY. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. I. THE GREAT MONUMENTAL WORK OF THE PRUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA, PUBLISHED BY LEPSIUS. THERE is, probably, no other instance of a single individual undertaking the arrangement, conduct, and control of the preparation and completion, as well as the last revision and publication, of so vast a work as that of Lepsius, entirely without assistance, and of his having done so much of it in a few years. Within twelve years after his return from Egypt, the first eight of twelve large folio volumes, containing nearly 650 lithographed plates, some of them coloured, have been published. The remainder, nearly 150 (Monumental Plates of the Ptolemies and Roman Emperors, as well as of the Ethiopian Kings, vols. ix. x.), are all ready-a considerable portion, indeed, struck off. The last two volumes (xi. xii.) contain inscriptions which do not exist on the monuments: the former of these is already out. The execution, to say the least of it, is not inferior to that of any published work, especially any work upon Egypt, in completeness and beauty of the draw |