The most lasting achievement of the German Egyptologist Heinrich Karl Brugsch ‎(‎1827‎-94‎)‎ is perhaps his work on the Egyptian demotic script‎,‎ which had been relatively neglected since Champollion‎'‎s death‎.‎ This illustrated two‎-volume history of Egypt‎,‎ ‎'‎derived entirely from the monuments‎'‎‎,‎ was first published in an English translation ‎(‎by H‎.‎ D‎.‎ Seymour‎,‎ from the 1876 first German edition‎,‎ and edited by Philip Smith‎)‎ in 1879‎.‎ Brugsch brings to bear his wide experience of the archaeological sites together with his linguistic expertise‎,‎ and deliberately eschews later Greek and Roman accounts of Egypt‎.‎ Volume 1 gives a detailed survey of the physical environment of Egypt before considering the pre‎-dynastic period‎,‎ and the emergence of Menes‎,‎ the first known pharaoh‎.‎ He then takes the narrative through the Old and Middle Kingdoms‎,‎ and the intermediate period‎,‎ to the emergence of the New Kingdom and the flowering and end of the Eighteenth Dynasty‎.‎