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Fxperience has shown that the greater number of travellers in Egypt are more interested in the remains and civilization of the ancient Egyptians than in the history of Egypt under the rule of the Persians , Ptolemnies , Romans , Arabs ...
Fxperience has shown that the greater number of travellers in Egypt are more interested in the remains and civilization of the ancient Egyptians than in the history of Egypt under the rule of the Persians , Ptolemnies , Romans , Arabs ...
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The notes on the history and development of the idea of the Mahdî among the Muhammadans , will , it is hoped , explain to the reader , who has not found time to examine into the Arabic sources , how religious fanaticism , and the ...
The notes on the history and development of the idea of the Mahdî among the Muhammadans , will , it is hoped , explain to the reader , who has not found time to examine into the Arabic sources , how religious fanaticism , and the ...
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Egyptian Writing A list of the Principal Hieroglyphic Signs The Rosetta Stone - Translation Arabic Alphabet Coptic ... and Gods of Egypt The Modern Egyptians Sketch of Coptic History The Arabs and Muḥammadanism :: Muḥammad the Prophet .
Egyptian Writing A list of the Principal Hieroglyphic Signs The Rosetta Stone - Translation Arabic Alphabet Coptic ... and Gods of Egypt The Modern Egyptians Sketch of Coptic History The Arabs and Muḥammadanism :: Muḥammad the Prophet .
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... which includes the remaining eleven dynasties , XXth - XXXth , one being Persian . The rule of the Saïte kings was followed by that of the Persians , Macedonians , Ptolemies and Romans . The rule of the Arabs , which began ...
... which includes the remaining eleven dynasties , XXth - XXXth , one being Persian . The rule of the Saïte kings was followed by that of the Persians , Macedonians , Ptolemies and Romans . The rule of the Arabs , which began ...
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He built at Şakkâra the pyramid called by the Arabs Haram așSayyâdin , or “ Hunters ' Pyramid . ” It was opened by Mariette in 1880 . His mummy is preserved in Cairo . The official Her - khuf began his career in this reign . B.C. 3166.
He built at Şakkâra the pyramid called by the Arabs Haram așSayyâdin , or “ Hunters ' Pyramid . ” It was opened by Mariette in 1880 . His mummy is preserved in Cairo . The official Her - khuf began his career in this reign . B.C. 3166.
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Page 412 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 370 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 117 - His Britannic Majesty's Government declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Egypt. The Government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fixed for the British occupation or in any other manner...
Page 339 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 379 - 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 destroyed.
Page 13 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 411 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Page 13 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 13 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Nile-- notes for travellers in Egypt |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Publisher | T. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 |
| Length | 955 pages |
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