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    Karl Richard Lepsius (Latin: Carolus Richardius Lepsius) (23 December 1810 – 10 July 1884) was a Prussian Egyptologist, linguist and modern archaeologist...
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    The Lepsius list of pyramids is a list of sixty-seven ancient Egyptian pyramids established in 1842–1843 by Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), an Egyptologist...
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  • Lepsius is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Johannes Lepsius (1858–1926), German humanitarian Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884)...
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    The Standard Alphabet is a Latin-script alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius. Lepsius initially used it to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphs in his...
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    priests over a period of about 1,000 years. In 1842, the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius introduced for these texts the German name Todtenbuch (modern spelling...
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  • who ruled c. 1800 BC as the sixth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty. Karl Richard Lepsius also discovered cartouches bearing the name of Amenemhat's daughter...
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    efforts languished after Young and Champollion died, but in 1837 Karl Richard Lepsius pointed out that many hieroglyphs represented combinations of two...
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  • power-broker, estate manager and enslaver, whose court was visited by Karl Richard Lepsius. Bint 'Adlan was born in the early 1800s, in or close to Sennar....
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    Lepsius nonetheless discovered a narrow corridor leading down to a nearly square chamber. In it, he found a roughly hewn stone sarcophagus. Lepsius dated...
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  • Lemm (Russian, 1856–1918) Charles Lenormant (French, 1802–1859) Karl Richard Lepsius (German, 1810–1884) Leonard H. Lesko (American, born 1938) František...
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    as a young prince in Memphis. During his exploration of the site, Karl Richard Lepsius identified a series of blocks and broken colonnades in the name of...
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    Euergetes; Queen Berenice, his wife; and Princess Berenice. In 1866, Karl Richard Lepsius discovered at Tanis the first copy of this Decree (this copy was...
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  • is italic, without other delimiters. It shares similarities with Karl Richard Lepsius’ Standard Alphabet or some Americanist phonetic notations Edward...
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    the western side of the Nile. It was discovered and described by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1844. The temple was built during the reign of Amenhotep III and...
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    "Ethiopia" was then a synonym for Nubia) is a monumental work by Karl Richard Lepsius published in Prussia in 1849–1859. Like the French Description de...
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    today known as the Second Intermediate Period. Bunsen's student Karl Richard Lepsius primarily used a bipartite system in his 1849–1858 Denkmäler aus...
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    precursors of the current IPA letters, ⟨ǀ⟩ ⟨ǁ⟩ ⟨ǃ⟩ ⟨ǂ⟩, were created by Karl Richard Lepsius and used by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, who added ⟨ʘ⟩. Also influential...
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  • was first published by Jean-Francois Champollion in 1845, and by Karl Richard Lepsius four years later. The upper register of the second western pylon...
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    the late 20th Dynasty. It was visited by Richard Pococke, Jean-François Champollion and Karl Richard Lepsius, and briefly studied by Edward R. Ayrton...
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    the famous zodiacs of Dendera display their symbols, identified by Karl Richard Lepsius. The division of the ecliptic into the zodiacal signs originates...
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  • Fakhry Selim Hassan Jacques de Morgan Jacques Kinnaer Miroslav Verner Karl Richard Lepsius Mark Lehner "Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from...
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    Saqqara, a hill that had been mapped by the Prussian Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius in 1842, for his first archaeological dig. There, Maspero found the...
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    Egyptian Art of Munich, while the remaining – under suggestions of Karl Richard Lepsius and of Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen – was bought by the Egyptian...
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    in Egyptian mythology. In 1842, Karl Richard Lepsius produced the first modern list of pyramids—now known as the Lepsius list of pyramids—in which he counted...
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    Napoleonic expedition of 1799 and, in 1844, the Prussian scholar Karl Richard Lepsius had partially explored its upper passage, but all its passageways...
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    was first identified by Champollion, and later partly published by Karl Richard Lepsius. It includes a record of the campaigns of this king against the Sea...
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    Karl Richard Lepsius and his team fly the Prussian flag from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops (painted by Johann Jakob Frey)...
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    – 3623 BC Reginald Stuart Poole (1851) – 2717 BC Karl Richard Lepsius (1856) – 3892 BC Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1859) – 4455 BC Franz Joseph Lauth (1869)...
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  • (200 ft) south of the tomb of Amenhotep III, it was discovered by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1845; he recorded that it contained pottery bearing the name of...
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    mastaba's decoration were copied and published by the expedition of Karl Richard Lepsius (Lepsius tomb 15). In the tomb is also depicted Pehenuikai's family....
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