How early, and to what extent, colouring may have attained the rank of science among the ancients, are questions not easily set at rest;
but that some progress had been made, even at a very remote period, is proved by the magnificent tombs of the Egyptian kings at Thebes,
where the walls of the royal mausoleum are described as being covered with paintings so fresh and perfect, as to require neither restoration nor improvement….
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