The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 - 311 pages |
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Page 82
... leads on the mighty flame against thee ; the eye of Rā prevails over thee , the flame devours thee , and nothing of thee remains . Get thee back , thou art hacked in pieces , thy soul is parched , thy name is buried in oblivion ...
... leads on the mighty flame against thee ; the eye of Rā prevails over thee , the flame devours thee , and nothing of thee remains . Get thee back , thou art hacked in pieces , thy soul is parched , thy name is buried in oblivion ...
Page 88
... lead over it . After this they carried it away to the river - side , and con- veyed it to the sea by the Tanaïtic mouth of the Nile ; which , for this reason , is still held in the utmost abomina- tion by the Egyptians , and never named ...
... lead over it . After this they carried it away to the river - side , and con- veyed it to the sea by the Tanaïtic mouth of the Nile ; which , for this reason , is still held in the utmost abomina- tion by the Egyptians , and never named ...
Page 106
... leads into the canal at the Suez end is 300 yards across in the widest part . The average width of the dredged channel is about 90 feet , and the average depth about 28 feet . At Shalûf et - Terrâbeh the excavation was very difficult ...
... leads into the canal at the Suez end is 300 yards across in the widest part . The average width of the dredged channel is about 90 feet , and the average depth about 28 feet . At Shalûf et - Terrâbeh the excavation was very difficult ...
Page 109
... lead from the Nile to the entrance , which diverging to the right and left , surround the temple . They are about 100 feet broad , and planted with trees . The vestibule is 60 feet high , and ornamented with very fine figures six * From ...
... lead from the Nile to the entrance , which diverging to the right and left , surround the temple . They are about 100 feet broad , and planted with trees . The vestibule is 60 feet high , and ornamented with very fine figures six * From ...
Page 110
... leads to the temple of Mercury : it is about 1,800 feet long and 400 feet wide , paved and planted on each side with large trees . " * The goddess Bast who was worshipped there is represented as having the head of a lioness or cat . She ...
... leads to the temple of Mercury : it is about 1,800 feet long and 400 feet wide , paved and planted on each side with large trees . " * The goddess Bast who was worshipped there is represented as having the head of a lioness or cat . She ...
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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...