“In the same year [1885] in which the first section of Brugsch's work appeared, Maspero published in the Revue des Religions (tom. xii., p. 123 f.) a masterly article, entitled La Religion Egyptienne d'apres les pyramides de la V' et cle la VI' dynastie, in which he gave to the world some of the results of his study of the " Pyramid Texts," which contain the oldest known Recension, i.e., the Heliopolitan, of the Book of the Dead. In 1887, Signor Lanzone published the last part of his Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia, which is one of the most valuable contributions to the study of Egyptian mythology ever made, and which contains the names of a large number of gods, demons, spirits, etc., arranged alphabetically, and a series of drawings of many of them printed in outline in red ink. In 1888 and 1889, Maspero, in two admirable articles in the Revue des Religions (La Mythologie Egyptienne, tom, xviii., p. 253 f., and tom, xix., p. 1 f.), discussed and criticized both the works of Brugsch and Lanzone, and shed a great deal of new light upon the facts collected in both. To Maspero belongs the credit of being the first to consider the Egyptian religion and mythology from the anthropological point of view, and all the evidence on these subjects which has since become available goes to prove the general correctness of the opinion which he stated some fifteen or sixteen years ago.”

“Jewish apocalypse [from Egypt] that were adapted or imitated by Christians were themselves preceded by rudimentary sorts of apocalypses composed by Pagans, some in Greek, others in the native language of the Egyptians.”

— Gaston Maspero (1899), “Review of Steindorff’s Apokalypse des Elias” [3]