An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities

The author presents a detailed examination of Egyptian hieroglyphics and related antiquities, proposing an original alphabet and comparing it with the extensions proposed by Champollion. He analyzes inscriptions including the Rosetta pillar and several papyri, and offers translations of five previously unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts. The work surveys recent collections and collectors, illustrates manuscripts brought from Egypt, and extracts classical accounts concerning mummification. It concludes with an alphabetical synopsis attributed to Champollion, a chronological outline of the Ptolemies, and appendices containing the Greek texts and specimens of hieroglyphic signs.