E. A. Wallis Budge noted of him, "No other scholar had such a wide and competent knowledge of the Book of the Dead", and that his death was a "great loss" to Egyptology. Criticism of the Book of Abraham facsimiles Among his contributions was the first critical assessment of the interpretation made by Joseph Smith of Egyptian vignettes that appear in the Mormon scripture the Book of Abraham. His comments appeared in several publications, including the book The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons. References Sources External links 1831 births 1871 deaths 19th-century French archaeologists French Egyptologists Book of Abraham Abu Simbel