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'Remarkable inscription of a Seven Year Famine on an island in the Nile, Egypt', 1905. 'The rocks on these islands are covered with inscriptions. They form the most ancient and most interesting visitor's book in the world. Century after century and dynasty after dynasty from 2600 BC onward through Roman times, kings and nobles, scribes and officers have left their record here.' Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted.