Worlds Columbian Exposition Chicago Ill 1893 Report Of The Committee On Awards Of The Worlds Columbian Commission Special Reports Upon Special Subjects Or Groups PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Awards of the World's Columbian Commission, 1893, Vol. 1 of 2: Special Reports Upon Special Subjects or Groups A. D. 200. Flinders petrie exploration, 1889. Museum OF the university OF pennsylvania. F haders-petrie, Hawara, etc., p. There is every probability that this technique originated in Egypt, where the heat Of the sun mini mized the difficulties of the process. Pliny claims the invention of encaustic painting for Polygnotus of Thasos, but to Egypt and Alex andria the names of many of the celebrated encaustic painters of antiquity may be traced, and wax was used to preserve painting in Egypt as early as the eighteenth dynasty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.