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- ↑ Athanasii Kircheri ... Lingua aegyptiaca restituta (in Latin). 1643. OCLC 9983374.
- ↑ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 17 May 2017.