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" 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 244
by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1911 - 428 pages
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Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr

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....
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Timethrift; or, All hours turned to good account, conducted by mrs. Warren

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...
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Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a ...

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....
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The Calcutta Review, Volume 26

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...
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Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a ...

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...
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Herodotus: Literally Translated from the Text of Baehr : with a Geographical ...

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....
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The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt

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....
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The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt

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....
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Herodotus, Book 7

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....
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A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of ...

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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