The subject of this essay is the alphabetization project of Daniel Willard Fiske (1831–1904). Fiske's project would allow the Egyptians to adopt a new alphabet based on the Latin one, and to adopt ...

Half-title: The new-Egyptian alphabet. EGYPTIAN ALPHABET FOR THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE TO WHICH IS APPENDED AN EGYPTIAN ARABIC READINGBOOK IN THE ROMAN CHARACTER BY WILLARD FISKE ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments, ...

The paper presented before the Académie de Grenoble in eastern France in 1806 was noteworthy for two reasons: First, the author was only 16 years old, and second the astonishingly erudite teenager ...