The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-11-20
REsEARCHEs I'M EGYPT.

RESA1AAbCAAED IN
The Boston Transcript publishes the follow
ing interesting items, derived from the private
correspondence of Mr.. Gliddon received by the
last steamer:
DIR. Lepsius with the Prussian commission was
expected at Phile--lst Cataract--by the end of
August, having terminated those invaluable ex-
plofatlons of Ethiopia that have reduced the ia
bled antiquity Of Mercte monuments to intelli-
gible lmits--commencing about the 25th Dynas-
ty, or seven hundred B. C.. They had opened
one OF the Ethiopian Pyramids, and found a few
unimportant relics of a modern date. The Prus-
slams will remain some six months at 'Thebes,
TO reinspect known hyeroglyphical data, and to
make such corrections and additions as will
probably leave nothing above ground undeter-
mined. When Thebes has been satisfactorily
concluded, they will descend to Cairo, and ex-
I%cayate Heliopols, where the rise of the %alluvial
soil has covered immense remains. Some time
next year the party will proceed 10 Syria and
thence TO Asia Minor to search for the tablets
recording the Asiatic victories of S%esostris, three
of which are known to exist.
The Russian government had commenced its
Iabors among the tombs around the Pyramids of
Memphis. They will copy Egyptian monuments
along the Nile up to. the I'd cataract. Mons.
Prsse, a gentleman who has resided eighteen
years in Egypt, the last ten of which have been
devoted TO monumental researches, has brought
the bass-reliefs Of the famed genealogical cham
Der of karnaC to Paris, and presented them TO
the French government. The scene in this
chamber represents Thotmes " (Rosellinis
Chronology--B. G. seventeen hundred and for
Ity) Offering TO ffIy-e;ght of his Pharaonic prede-
~cessors, the arrangement of which is yet a mys-
terry unsolyed. AS the reward of the labors of
Mons. Prsse, the munifcent French govern
ment is about TO send him back to the valley of
the Nile 10 prosecute his hieroglyphical explo-
ratloIis Tor three ~years--and he was in London
when the Acadia left, making preparations.
The French Royal Academy has proposed a
gold medal for the best dissertation on the Dyn-
asties of Mdnctho, which will excite the keenest
competition among hierogiyphical Swans; and
great will be the laurels of time, who comes in
Second-best.
The Syro-Egyptian Society of London is in
full activity, about to publish tablets, inscriptions,
&C., &c.
The profound, SYNAGOGUE, Hierologist, and
universally erudite scholar, Birch, of the British
Museum, corresponding secretary ofthe Arche-
illogical Institute of Rome, had completed his
researches on the language and writings of the
Egyptians; and, if Lepsius and Panther have
he honor Of establishing what may be termed
the i" organic laws " of human PROCESS in the
art of writing, to Birch will be the merit of de.
termLnlng the various ages Of lis advance in T.
gypi, from the earliest pictorial sign to the in
PRODUCTION and exclusive adoption Of purely al
phGbctic characters, such as are now use.
Mr.. Osborne, of Leeds, author Of the CAN'T
qulties of Egypt, Illustrative Of the sacred Scrip
lures" was progressing with his researches imo
ealIy hicroglyphical geography in calculation Of
he Mosaic records. This subject has long for
med the private study of Mr.. Gliddon, who in
forms us that it opens a vast untroddcn field OF
inquiry into ethnology, history and geography.
MIR. Giddon's occupations compel him 10 defer
the publication Of his own extensive collations OF
hieroglyphical names with the tenth chapter of
Genesis, offering strange combinations of the
science and accuracy of Moses, aud he cordial
lily halls a fellow-laborei in the same thorny,
though intensely curious field.
Mr.. Bonomi, having accompanied Mohammed
Ais two sons in their visit TO Paris, was expec-
ted in London TO put forth his recent examina-
tons of ancient and modern Egypt.
The first three volumes of Baron Bunsen's
great work, with his profound views OIL Egyptian
languages, writings, history and chronology,
were TO appear in Germany on the 30th Septem-
ber--Tert and plates.