The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... east of the Delta , and sojourned in the district round about Tanis , where grain was to be had in abundance , and ... Eastern Desert and Syria , from time immemorial . Famines were frequent in Syria and Palestine , and the Hebrews and ...
... east of the Delta , and sojourned in the district round about Tanis , where grain was to be had in abundance , and ... Eastern Desert and Syria , from time immemorial . Famines were frequent in Syria and Palestine , and the Hebrews and ...
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... east of Syria . Thi was the mother of Amenophis IV . , the " heretic king . " Her father was called Iuda , and her mother Thuâu ; their tomb was discovered at Thebes by Mr. Theodore M. Davis on February 12 , 1905. The inscriptions on ...
... east of Syria . Thi was the mother of Amenophis IV . , the " heretic king . " Her father was called Iuda , and her mother Thuâu ; their tomb was discovered at Thebes by Mr. Theodore M. Davis on February 12 , 1905. The inscriptions on ...
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... east and north - east of Egypt . Dynasty XIII . , from Thebes . From the Monuments . Rā - khu - taui . His name is found on the Tablet of Karnak , and a portion of a stele bearing his prenomen was discovered by M. G. Legrain at Karnak ...
... east and north - east of Egypt . Dynasty XIII . , from Thebes . From the Monuments . Rā - khu - taui . His name is found on the Tablet of Karnak , and a portion of a stele bearing his prenomen was discovered by M. G. Legrain at Karnak ...
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... East . The Anthropomor- phites ( the leader of this persecution was Theo- philus , Bishop of Alexandria , who , before he dis- covered that the majority of the Egyptian monks were Anthropomorphites , was himself opposed to this body ) ...
... East . The Anthropomor- phites ( the leader of this persecution was Theo- philus , Bishop of Alexandria , who , before he dis- covered that the majority of the Egyptian monks were Anthropomorphites , was himself opposed to this body ) ...
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... East from time immemorial . Among the ancient Egyptians the crescent actually occurs in the name of Aah - mes , ie . , " Child of the Moon , " the first king of the XVIIIth dynasty , about B.C. 1700 , and the five - rayed star ☆ was a ...
... East from time immemorial . Among the ancient Egyptians the crescent actually occurs in the name of Aah - mes , ie . , " Child of the Moon , " the first king of the XVIIIth dynasty , about B.C. 1700 , and the five - rayed star ☆ was a ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abû Abydos Alexandria Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Atbara Barrage Blue Nile body British building built Cairo called canal capital Cataract chamber chapel Christians church columns Coptic Copts corvée Dêr Dervishes desert east excavations famous feet Gebel Barkal gods Government granite Greek Ḥalfa Hathor hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak Khalifa Khartûm king Lake land large number Luxor Mariette Memphis Meroë metres miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum natives Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâshâ period Philæ pillars priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid railway Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman royal ruins sarcophagus Sawâkin scenes Seti shrine side statue stele stone Sûdân Suez suten temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Wâdî walls west bank White Nile worship XIIth XVIIIth dynasty
Popular passages
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.