 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,...  The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt - Page 138by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard William H. Howard Vyse - 1840 - 894 pages
...months. The period of the oppression of the people was ten years for the construction of the causeway, along which they drew the stones — a work in my opinion not much inferior to the Pyramid ; for it is three thousand feet long, sixty feet wide, and in its loftiest... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The...than the pyramid : for its length is five stades, and its width ten orgyae, and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...harassed by toil, lasted ten yean on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stooes, a work, in my opinion, not much less than the pyramid : for iu length is five stades, and its width ten orgyae, and its height, where it is the highest, eight... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1876 - 482 pages
...to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The...work in my opinion not much less than the pyramid. ... On this road ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill,... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The...than the pyramid : for its length is five stades, and its width ten orgyae, and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1894 - 450 pages
...Nile, others he ordered to receive the stones when transported in vessels across the river, and to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked...much less than the pyramid ; for its length is five stadcs (3,021 feet), and its width ten orgya; (60 feet), and its height, where it is the highest, eight... | |
 | Francis Morgan Barber - 1900 - 176 pages
...another inclined plane whose remains can yet be seen (fig. vi.) It is thus described by Herodotus : " The time during which the people were thus harassed...less than the pyramid, for its length is five stades — about 3,000 feet, — and its width ten orgyae — 60 feet, and its height, where it is the highest,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The...than the pyramid : for its length is five stades, and its width ten orgyae, and its height, where it is the highest, eight orgyae ; and it is of polished... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...party during three months. The time during which the people ' were thus harassed by toil lasted 10 years on the road which they ' constructed, along...not much less than the pyramid : for its length is 5 stades ' (3'05r feet), and its width 10 orgyae (60 feet), and its height, where "it is the highest,... | |
 | William Kingsland - 1996 - 188 pages
...to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The...than the pyramid : for its length is five stades, and its a P o eT. o o w in a H THE THIKD PYRAMID FROM THE NORTH-WEST width ten orgyae, and its height,... | |
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