The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 - 311 pages |
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Page ix
... bases his calculations on the assumption that the average duration of a generation was thirty - three years . Hence it will be readily understood that the date assigned to Rameses II . ( B.C. 1333 ) , for instance , is only ap ...
... bases his calculations on the assumption that the average duration of a generation was thirty - three years . Hence it will be readily understood that the date assigned to Rameses II . ( B.C. 1333 ) , for instance , is only ap ...
Page 39
... base , a dialect of ancient Egyptian ; many of the nouns and verbs found in the hieroglyphic texts remain unchanged in Coptic , and a large number of others can , by making proper allowance for phonetic decay and dialectic differences ...
... base , a dialect of ancient Egyptian ; many of the nouns and verbs found in the hieroglyphic texts remain unchanged in Coptic , and a large number of others can , by making proper allowance for phonetic decay and dialectic differences ...
Page 48
... base . The land about Elephantine and at Thebes has been raised about nine feet in 1,700 years . The usual rise of the river at Cairo is twenty - five feet , at Thebes thirty - eight feet , and at Aswan forty - nine feet . The average ...
... base . The land about Elephantine and at Thebes has been raised about nine feet in 1,700 years . The usual rise of the river at Cairo is twenty - five feet , at Thebes thirty - eight feet , and at Aswan forty - nine feet . The average ...
Page 88
... base designs . For having privily taken the measure of Osiris's body , he caused a chest to be made exactly of the same size with it , as beautiful as might be , and set off with all the ornaments of art . This chest he brought into his ...
... base designs . For having privily taken the measure of Osiris's body , he caused a chest to be made exactly of the same size with it , as beautiful as might be , and set off with all the ornaments of art . This chest he brought into his ...
Page 101
... base of this pillar are thought to have belonged to the Serapeum . A few years ago there were to be seen in Alexandria the two famous granite obelisks called Cleopatra's Needles . They were brought from Heliopolis during the reign of ...
... base of this pillar are thought to have belonged to the Serapeum . A few years ago there were to be seen in Alexandria the two famous granite obelisks called Cleopatra's Needles . They were brought from Heliopolis during the reign of ...
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Abydos Alexandria Åmen Åmen-Rā Amenemḥāt Amenophis Amenophis III ancient days ancient Egyptian Apis Arabic Aswân beautiful building built Cairo called Cambyses canal cataract century chamber Chephren church coffin and mummy columns Coptic Copts crocodile dedicated Denderah Dêr east bank Egyptian Ethiopians excavations famous feet high Girgeh Gizeh gods granite Greek Harmachis Hathor Heliopolis hemt Herodotus hewn hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak king of Egypt land large number lived lord Manetho Mariette maṣṭaba Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Muḥammad mummy Museum neter Nile Nilometer Nubia obelisks Osiris papyrus pillars priests Ptaḥ Ptolemy Ptolemy II pylon pyramid Rameses II reign represented river Roman royal Sakkârah sarcophagus scenes sculptures Serapeum Seti side sphinxes stele stone stood Strabo Suez Sulțân Suten t'etta Thebes thee Thothmes tombs town Unȧs Upper Egypt Usertsen walls west bank worshipped XIIth dynasty XVIIIth
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Page 35 - 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 81 - 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 90 - 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 100 - 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 164 - The rooms above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal inspection. But the underground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians who have charge of the building would, on no account, show me them, saying, that there were the sepulchres of the kings who originally built this labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have...
Page 138 - ... ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile.
Page 193 - ... there was no city under the sun so ' adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold, silver, and ' ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks, cut out of one entire 'stone.
Page vii - It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to run logs in the river.
Page 139 - Cheops reached such a degree of infamy, that being in want of money, he prostituted his own daughter in a brothel, and ordered her to extort, they did not say how much ; but she exacted a certain sum of money, privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone towards the edifice she designed : of these stones they said the pyramid was built that stands in the middle of the three, before the great...
Page 138 - And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil lasted ten years on the road which they constructed...