 ... 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.  The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt - Page 138by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1868 - 634 pages
...highest, eight orgyaj ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on it : on this road, then, ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous...were spent in erecting the pyramid itself: of this, whicli is square, each face is eight •plethra, and the height is the same; it is composed of polished... | |
 | Herodotus - 1892 - 630 pages
...highest, eight orgyoe ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on it : on this road, then, ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous...apartments on the hill, on which the pyramids stand, which lie had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile.... | |
 | Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...highest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on it : on this road then ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous...hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made us a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile. Twenty years... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...it : on this road then 10 years were witn nsniics carvcu uii i>. • ***» «•«* * Vi "expendtd, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the...on which the pyramids stand, which he had made as a bun? N " vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the " Nile. Twenty years... | |
 | William Kingsland - 1996 - 188 pages
...highest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished stone, with figures carved on it ; on this road then ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous...burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by drawing a canal from the Nile. Twenty years were spent in erecting the pyramid itself : of this, which... | |
 | S. H. Ford - 1996 - 222 pages
...on this road, then, ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous :i|>:u:l inrtil A oil the hill, on which the Pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in au island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile. Twenty years were spent in erecting the Pyramid... | |
 | Lynn Picknett - 2001 - 460 pages
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