The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology |
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... for Manetho , by reason of his position as priest and his knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language , had access to , and was able to make use of , the ancient Egyptian literature in a way which no other writer seems to have done .
... for Manetho , by reason of his position as priest and his knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language , had access to , and was able to make use of , the ancient Egyptian literature in a way which no other writer seems to have done .
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An interesting class of sepulchral boxes comes from Boxes Aḥmîm , the ancient Panopolis , which deserves special Akhmîm . mention . The largest of them in the British Museum ( No. 18,210 ) is 31 feet long and 3 feet high .
An interesting class of sepulchral boxes comes from Boxes Aḥmîm , the ancient Panopolis , which deserves special Akhmîm . mention . The largest of them in the British Museum ( No. 18,210 ) is 31 feet long and 3 feet high .
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The ancient writers who have described and treated of the pyramids are given by Pliny ( Nat . Hist . , xxxvi . 12 , 17 ) . If we may believe some of the writers on them during the Middle Ages , their outsides must have been covered with ...
The ancient writers who have described and treated of the pyramids are given by Pliny ( Nat . Hist . , xxxvi . 12 , 17 ) . If we may believe some of the writers on them during the Middle Ages , their outsides must have been covered with ...
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Contents
Egyptian Chronology | 10 |
The History of Egypt Dynasties I XXX | 18 |
List of Egyptian Dynasties and the dates assigned to them | 69 |
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The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Limited preview - 1964 |
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