 Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. For it has twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, six facing the north, and six the south, contiguous to one another ; and the same exterior wall encloses them.  The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt - Page 330by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 674 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 pages
...the Pyramids. To quote the words of Herodotus — " It has twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other — six facing the north,...the same exterior wall encloses them. It contains t\vo kinds of rooms, some under ground, and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand... | |
 | 1856 - 628 pages
...labyrinth. Herodotus describes it as a huge building consisting of twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, six facing the north, and six the south. The same exterior wall enclosed them all. It contained three thousand rooms, fifteen hundred on the... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1868 - 634 pages
...Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids ; for it has twelve courts inclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, six facing the north and...contiguous to one another, and the same exterior wall incloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above ground over them, to... | |
 | Herodotus - 1892 - 630 pages
...facing the north and six the south, contiguous to one another, and the same exterior wall incloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground...saw, and relate from personal inspection ; but the under ground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians who have charge of the building would... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1907 - 560 pages
...Moeris." This labyrinth " surpasses even the pyramid." It has twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, six facing the north and six the south," which points to a building that represented the heaven of the twelve kings and twelve zodiacal signs... | |
 | Janet R. Buttles - 1908 - 314 pages
...even the "pyramids, for it has twelve courts enclosed with walls "with doors opposite each other . . . It contains two " kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above 1 LEPSIUS, Aurwahl, pi. 5, col. 7, I, 2; M.'s DC, 527. ' P.'s HE, vol. I, 1 88. "ground over them,... | |
 | James Baikie - 1910 - 372 pages
...remarkable structure than even the Pyramids. ' It has,' he says, ' twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, six facing the north, and...and some above ground over them, to the number of 3,000, 1,500 of each.' He was not allowed to inspect the underground chambers. ' But the upper ones,... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1911 - 530 pages
...structures. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the Pyramids. For it has twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, six facing the north, and...encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some underground and some above-ground over them, to the number of 3,000, 1,500 of each. The rooms above-ground... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1912 - 462 pages
...structures. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. For it has twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, six facing the north, and...encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some underground and some above ground over them to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each.... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
..." Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. For it has " 1 2 courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, " six facing the north,..."another; and the same exterior wall encloses them. It con" tains two kinds of rooms, some under ground and some " above ground over them, to the number of... | |
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