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  <dc:title>Unpublished paper, on Egyptian monuments by the Duc de Chaulnes [Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>The Duke's essay discusses Egyptian monuments and hieroglyphs, focusing on a monument found near Saccora [Saqqara, Egypt] dedicated to animals.

Subject: Anthropology

Written in Paris and addressed to Docteur Bancks [Joseph Banks]. Read to the Royal Society on 2 March 1783.

The Duke of Chaulnes did publish this as a pamphlet in 1777: Le Duc de Chaulnes. 'Mémoire sur la véritable entrée du monument égyptien'. Clousier, Paris, 1777.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>21 February 1783</dc:date>
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