The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1901 - 671 pages |
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... Romans , Arabs , and Turks . It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to describe , otherwise than in the briefest manner possible , its history under these foreign rulers , and only such facts connected with them as are ...
... Romans , Arabs , and Turks . It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to describe , otherwise than in the briefest manner possible , its history under these foreign rulers , and only such facts connected with them as are ...
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... Romans Muḥammadans The Byzantines ... ... ... ... Dates assigned to the Egyptian Dynasties by Egypto- logists ... ... Progress in Egypt under British Rule 50 51 The Country of Egypt ... 57 The Nomes of Egypt 61 The Ancient Egyptians 64 ...
... Romans Muḥammadans The Byzantines ... ... ... ... Dates assigned to the Egyptian Dynasties by Egypto- logists ... ... Progress in Egypt under British Rule 50 51 The Country of Egypt ... 57 The Nomes of Egypt 61 The Ancient Egyptians 64 ...
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... Roman writers upon Egypt are many ; and of these the best known are Herodotus , Manetho , and Diodorus Siculus . Herodotus devotes the whole of the second and the beginning of the third book of his work to a history of Egypt and the ...
... Roman writers upon Egypt are many ; and of these the best known are Herodotus , Manetho , and Diodorus Siculus . Herodotus devotes the whole of the second and the beginning of the third book of his work to a history of Egypt and the ...
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... Romans . The rule of the Arabs which began A.D. 641 , ended A.D. 1517 , when the country was conquered by the Turks ; since this time Egypt has been nominally a pashalik of Turkey . About A.D. 75 , * About A.D. 15. + About A. D. 50 ...
... Romans . The rule of the Arabs which began A.D. 641 , ended A.D. 1517 , when the country was conquered by the Turks ; since this time Egypt has been nominally a pashalik of Turkey . About A.D. 75 , * About A.D. 15. + About A. D. 50 ...
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... Romans against Antiochus was asked for by the Egyptians . Coelesyria and Palestine were lost to Egypt . He was poisoned B.C. 182 , and his son Ptolemy VI . Philometor , died in that same year . The Rosetta Stone was set up in the eighth ...
... Romans against Antiochus was asked for by the Egyptians . Coelesyria and Palestine were lost to Egypt . He was poisoned B.C. 182 , and his son Ptolemy VI . Philometor , died in that same year . The Rosetta Stone was set up in the eighth ...
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Abydos Alexandria Amen Amen-Ra Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Apis Arabs Aswân beautiful body building built buried Cairo called canal Cataract chamber Christians church coffin colour columns comest Coptic Copts dead Dêr Egyptian excavations famous Fayyûm feet Gebel Gebel Barkal Gizeh gods gold granite Greek Hail Hathor Heliopolis Herodotus hieroglyphics Horus Hyksos inlaid inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak Khnemu-hetep king Kur'ân Lake Lake Moeris land large number lord Luxor Mahdi Mariette Memphis Meroë miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâsha pillars priests Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman ruins Sakkârah sarcophagus says scenes Seti shrine side sphinxes statue stele stone Strabo Sûdân Suez temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Vth dynasty Wâdî walls west bank worshipped XIIth dynasty XVIIIth
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Page 193 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Page 246 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 223 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 227 - They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use.
Page 252 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved • if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be de stroyed.
Page 174 - Hail to thee, maker of all beings, Lord of law, father of the gods ; maker of men, creator of beasts ; Lord of grains, making food for the beast of the field The One alone without a second King alone, single among the gods ; of many names, unknown is their number.
Page 252 - The sentence was executed with blind obedience, the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their incredible multitude that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel.
Page 185 - Isis set out once more in search of the scattered members of her husband's body, using a boat made of the papyrus rush in order the more easily to pass through the lower and fenny parts of the country.
Page 301 - Epaphus, is the calf of a cow incapable of conceiving another offspring ; and the Egyptians say, that lightning descends upon the cow from heaven, and that from thence it brings forth Apis. This calf, which is called Apis, has the following marks : it is black, and has a square spot of white on the forehead ; and on the back the figure of an eagle ; and in the tail double hairs ; and on the tongue a beetle.