The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 - 311 pages |
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... chambers and the galleries leading to them were next planned and excavated . Around the core a truncated pyramid building was made , the angles of which were filled up with blocks of stone . Layer after layer of stone was then built ...
... chambers and the galleries leading to them were next planned and excavated . Around the core a truncated pyramid building was made , the angles of which were filled up with blocks of stone . Layer after layer of stone was then built ...
Page 137
... Chamber , J , which is lined with granite , and measures about 35 X 17 X 19 feet . The five hollow chambers K , L , M , N , O were built above the King's Chamber to lighten the pressure of the superincumbent mass . In chamber o the name ...
... Chamber , J , which is lined with granite , and measures about 35 X 17 X 19 feet . The five hollow chambers K , L , M , N , O were built above the King's Chamber to lighten the pressure of the superincumbent mass . In chamber o the name ...
Page 140
... chamber 461 × 161 × 22 feet , which held the granite sarcophagus in which Chephren was buried . The lower opening leads into a corridor about 100 feet long , which , first descending and then ascending , ends in the chamber mentioned ...
... chamber 461 × 161 × 22 feet , which held the granite sarcophagus in which Chephren was buried . The lower opening leads into a corridor about 100 feet long , which , first descending and then ascending , ends in the chamber mentioned ...
Page 141
... chambers by Howard Vyse in 1837. The sarcophagus , which measured 8 × 3 × 21⁄2 feet , was lost through the wreck of the ship in which it was sent to England , but the venerable fragments of the coffin are preserved in the British Museum ...
... chambers by Howard Vyse in 1837. The sarcophagus , which measured 8 × 3 × 21⁄2 feet , was lost through the wreck of the ship in which it was sent to England , but the venerable fragments of the coffin are preserved in the British Museum ...
Page 142
... chamber , having a series of three granite doors , leads into one chamber about 40 feet long , and a second cham- ber about 44 long . In this last chamber is a shaft which leads down to the granite - lined chamber about twenty feet ...
... chamber , having a series of three granite doors , leads into one chamber about 40 feet long , and a second cham- ber about 44 long . In this last chamber is a shaft which leads down to the granite - lined chamber about twenty feet ...
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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...