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epitaphs and so confer upon the departed the blessings written therein.
In Egypt, with its concentration upon the afterlife, the number of these
inscriptions soon • proliferated to such an extent that the attention and
the goodwill of visitors flagged. To revive their interest, the scribes
deliberately made the inscriptions a bit obscure. They introduced the
cryptographic signs to catch the reader's eye, make him wonder, and
tempt him into unriddling them — and so into reading the blessings. It
was a sort of Madison Avenue technique in the Valley of the Kings. But
the technique failed utterly. Instead of interesting the readers, it
evidently destroyed even the slightest desire to read the epitaphs, for
soon after the funerary cryptography was begun, it was abandoned.
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The addition of secrecy to the transformations produced
cryptography. True, it was more of a game than anything else—it sought
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