The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 - 311 pages |
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... head in the person of Menes . There is , however , no support to be obtained from the inscriptions for either of these theories . The kings of Egypt following after the mythical period are divided into thirty dynasties . For the sake of ...
... head in the person of Menes . There is , however , no support to be obtained from the inscriptions for either of these theories . The kings of Egypt following after the mythical period are divided into thirty dynasties . For the sake of ...
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... head of the statue of Osorkon II . , presented to the British Museum ( No. 1063 ) by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund . The lower part of the nose is broken away , but enough of the upper part remains to show what was its ...
... head of the statue of Osorkon II . , presented to the British Museum ( No. 1063 ) by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund . The lower part of the nose is broken away , but enough of the upper part remains to show what was its ...
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... heads are longer and their features are more European . The Copts are famous in ecclesiastical history for having embraced with extraordinary zeal and rapidity the doctrines of Christianity as preached by St. Mark at Alexandria . Before ...
... heads are longer and their features are more European . The Copts are famous in ecclesiastical history for having embraced with extraordinary zeal and rapidity the doctrines of Christianity as preached by St. Mark at Alexandria . Before ...
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... head of the Nile , Victoria Nyanza , is a huge basin , far below the level of the country round about , into which several streams empty themselves . About 200 miles below Kharțûm the united river receives , on the east side , the ...
... head of the Nile , Victoria Nyanza , is a huge basin , far below the level of the country round about , into which several streams empty themselves . About 200 miles below Kharțûm the united river receives , on the east side , the ...
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... head of a ram , and is one of the oldest gods of the Egyptian religion . He was thought to possess some of the attributes of Åmen , Rā , and Ptaḥ , and shared with the last - named god the attribute of " maker of mankind . " At Phile he ...
... head of a ram , and is one of the oldest gods of the Egyptian religion . He was thought to possess some of the attributes of Åmen , Rā , and Ptaḥ , and shared with the last - named god the attribute of " maker of mankind . " At Phile he ...
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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...