The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 - 311 pages |
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... Herodotus , Diodorus Siculus and other classical authors . The native and other docu- ments from which Egyptian history is obtained are : — I. Lists of Kings found in the Turin Papyrus , the Tablet of Abydos , the Tablet of Sakkårah ...
... Herodotus , Diodorus Siculus and other classical authors . The native and other docu- ments from which Egyptian history is obtained are : — I. Lists of Kings found in the Turin Papyrus , the Tablet of Abydos , the Tablet of Sakkårah ...
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... Herodotus , Manetho , and Diodorus Siculus . Herodotus devotes the whole of the second and the beginning of the third book of his work to a history of Egypt and the Egyptians , and his is the oldest Greek treatise on the subject known ...
... Herodotus , Manetho , and Diodorus Siculus . Herodotus devotes the whole of the second and the beginning of the third book of his work to a history of Egypt and the Egyptians , and his is the oldest Greek treatise on the subject known ...
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... Herodotus and Hekatæus . He was not so able a writer nor so accurate an observer as Herodotus , and his work contains many blunders . Other important ancient writers on Egypt are Strabo , * Chaeremon , † Josephus , Plutarch§ and ...
... Herodotus and Hekatæus . He was not so able a writer nor so accurate an observer as Herodotus , and his work contains many blunders . Other important ancient writers on Egypt are Strabo , * Chaeremon , † Josephus , Plutarch§ and ...
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... Herodotus gives us no information on this matter , but Diodorus tells us that it amounted to 7,000,000 in ancient times . The priests at Thebes informed Germanicus in A.D. 19 that in the times of Rameses II . the country contained ...
... Herodotus gives us no information on this matter , but Diodorus tells us that it amounted to 7,000,000 in ancient times . The priests at Thebes informed Germanicus in A.D. 19 that in the times of Rameses II . the country contained ...
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... Herodotus , is this : - " They go by water , and numerous boats are crowded with persons of both sexes . During the voyage several women strike cymbals and tambourines ; some men play the flute ; the rest singing and clapping their ...
... Herodotus , is this : - " They go by water , and numerous boats are crowded with persons of both sexes . During the voyage several women strike cymbals and tambourines ; some men play the flute ; the rest singing and clapping their ...
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Abydos Alexandria Åmen Amenophis Amenophis III ancient days ancient Egyptian Apis Arabic Aswân beautiful building built buried Cæsar Cairo called Cambyses canal cataract century chamber church coffin and mummy columns Coptic Copts crocodile dedicated Denderah Dêr east bank Egyptian Ethiopians excavations famous feet high Gizeh gods granite Greek Hathor Heliopolis hemt Herodotus hewn hieroglyphic honour Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak king of Egypt Lake land large number lived lord Manetho Mariette maṣṭaba Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Muḥammad Muhammedan mummy Museum Nile Nilometer Nubia obelisks Osiris papyrus Philæ pillars priests Ptaḥ Ptolemy Ptolemy II pylon pyramid Rameses II reign represented river Roman royal ruins Sakkârah sarcophagus scenes sculptures Serapeum Seti side sphinxes stele stone stood Strabo Suez Sulțân Suten Thebes thee Thothmes thou tombs town 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 138 - This pyramid was built thus ; in the form of steps, which some call crossse, others bomides. When they had first built it in this manner, they raised the remaining stones by machines made of short pieces of wood : having lifted them from the ground to the first range of steps, when the stone arrived there, it was put on another machine that stood ready on the first range ; and from this it was drawn to the second range on another machine ; for the machines were equal in number to the ranges of steps...
Page 138 - And they worked to the number of 100,000 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, along which they drew the stones, a work in my opinion, not much less than the pyramid...
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...