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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir John Marsham (1602–1685)

Marsham, John, Sir. An English Egyptologist; born in 1602; died in 1685. His ‘Diatriba Chronologica’ (1649), enlarged into ‘Chronicus Canon Egyptiacus,’ etc. (1672), was a pioneer work in fixing the sequence of ancient history by means of the Egyptian annals.