The first issue of a new periodical, expected to create a new American center for the field of Papyrology, the study of ancient Egyptian papyri, in Philadelphia is being published here by Dr. Nathaniel Reich, noted Egyptologist.
The magazine is called “Mizraim,” the Biblical name of Egypt, with the sub-title “Journal of Papyrology, Egyptology, History of Ancient Laws and their relations to the Civilization of Bible Lands.”
It is published through a fund established for the purpose by Lessing J. Rosenwald of this city, president of Sears Roebuck and Company.
Some of the foremost men in the fields of Egyptology and other Oriental and Greek studies have contributed articles to the first number of the new publication.
Dr. Reich is head of the department of Egyptology at Dropsie College. He came to the United States in 1921 and after working for some months in the Oriental Institute in Chicago, he became assistant curator in the Egyptian Department of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1925 he worked at that institution deciphering papyri brought from Egypt by expeditions sent out by the museum. Some of the writings were in Demotic, a language which is known by only three other men in the world.
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