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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7326711, member: 110350&quot;]I was confused for a minute until I realized that you&#039;re talking about the Lion &amp; Sun Disk scarab, not the Ptah amulet! Thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, for all their faults and the colonialism with which they collaborated, the level of erudition of 19th century British (and other European) archaeologists specializing in Egypt and the Ancient Near East, and interpreting hieroglyphic and cuneiform inscriptions (never mind classical languages) was astounding. But, hey, John Stuart Mill was supposedly fluent in reading Latin and ancient Greek by the time he was 3, so none of this was considered unusual.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I edited the four enormous photos in the Ptah amulet post to reduce their size. I&#039;m not sure why they were so huge in the first place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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