The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1901 - 671 pages |
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... face of the earth . The existing guide books are too full , and they contain too many details for such travellers . Experience has shown that the greater number of travellers in Egypt are more interested in the remains and civilization ...
... face of the earth . The existing guide books are too full , and they contain too many details for such travellers . Experience has shown that the greater number of travellers in Egypt are more interested in the remains and civilization ...
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... face , is a veritable reproduction of the hereditary nobleman who built the tomb which he is examining . It may be that no invading race has ever found itself physically able to reproduce per- sistently its own characteristics for any ...
... face , is a veritable reproduction of the hereditary nobleman who built the tomb which he is examining . It may be that no invading race has ever found itself physically able to reproduce per- sistently its own characteristics for any ...
Page 68
... face . Round the body were a number of large and small vases filled with burnt bones , etc. , and quite close to it were red and black vases , stone pots , figures of fish in schist , worked or un- worked flints , alabaster objects like ...
... face . Round the body were a number of large and small vases filled with burnt bones , etc. , and quite close to it were red and black vases , stone pots , figures of fish in schist , worked or un- worked flints , alabaster objects like ...
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... face west , and on the left side .... A regular ceremonial system is observable ...... From the uniformity of the details it is clear that a system of belief was in full force . " * In March , 1897 , M. de Morgan decided to excavate the ...
... face west , and on the left side .... A regular ceremonial system is observable ...... From the uniformity of the details it is clear that a system of belief was in full force . " * In March , 1897 , M. de Morgan decided to excavate the ...
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... faces the east , is found ; at its foot stands an altar or table intended for offerings , and near it is a chamber in which a statue of the deceased was placed . The pit leading to the mummy chamber was square o rectangular , and , when ...
... faces the east , is found ; at its foot stands an altar or table intended for offerings , and near it is a chamber in which a statue of the deceased was placed . The pit leading to the mummy chamber was square o rectangular , and , when ...
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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.