Excerpt from The Tale of the Two Brothers: A Fairy Tale of Ancient Egypt; The D'orbiney Papyrus in Hieratic Characters in the British Museum In transliterating the Egyptian words the author follows the old system of the grandmasters of Egyptology, Lepsius and Brugsch, in preference to that of the so-called new German school with its curious signs and unpronounce able words. 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.