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. It contains two... Queer Things about Egypt - Page 244by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1911 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...pyramids likewise were beyond description, and each of them comparable to many of the great Grecian structures. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids....encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each.... | |
| Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 pages
...another extraordinary work of art, surpassed even the Pyramids. To quote the words of Herodotus — " It has twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors...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... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...pyramids likewise were beyond description, and each of them comparable to many of the great Grecian structures. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids....encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each.... | |
| 1856 - 628 pages
...greatest wonders of antiquity, — the 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
...Grecian structures. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids ; for it has twelve courts inclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, six facing...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, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...pyramids likewise were beyond description, and each of them comparable to many of the great Grecian structures. Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids....encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each.... | |
| Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 338 pages
...are still visible. * From the Egyptian t From the Egyptian Ma-ur, "great water." J Bk. II., 149. § " Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. For...encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each.... | |
| Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 342 pages
...Egyptian XS MM ^\ J£Vfl %%X , Pa-iumd. t From the Egyptian Ma-ur, "great water." I Bk. II., 149. § " Vet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. For it...encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each.... | |
| Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...even the pyramids. For it has twelvt courts enclosed with walls, with doors opposite each other, sis facing the north, and six the south, contiguous to...encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each.... | |
| Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 244 pages
...pyramids likewise "were beyond description, and each of them comparable " to many of the great Grecian structures. Yet the " labyrinth surpasses even the...encloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some " under ground and some above ground over them, to " the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred... | |
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