The Nile-- notes for travellers in Egypt |
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EGYPTIAN HISTORY , The history of Egypt is the oldest history known to us It is true that the earliest of the Babylonian kings whose names are known lived very little later than the earliest kings of Egypt , nevertheless our knowledge ...
EGYPTIAN HISTORY , The history of Egypt is the oldest history known to us It is true that the earliest of the Babylonian kings whose names are known lived very little later than the earliest kings of Egypt , nevertheless our knowledge ...
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The Tablet of Şakkâra was discovered at Sakkara by Mariette , in the grave of THUNUREI , who lived during the reign of Rameses II . In spite of a break in it , and some orthographical errors , it is a valuable list ; it gives the names ...
The Tablet of Şakkâra was discovered at Sakkara by Mariette , in the grave of THUNUREI , who lived during the reign of Rameses II . In spite of a break in it , and some orthographical errors , it is a valuable list ; it gives the names ...
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... for the king to make him take the Egyptian name of " Zaphnathpaaneah , " which means something like , " God spake , and he came into life , " peso It is of course impossible to assign a date to the period during which Joseph lived ...
... for the king to make him take the Egyptian name of " Zaphnathpaaneah , " which means something like , " God spake , and he came into life , " peso It is of course impossible to assign a date to the period during which Joseph lived ...
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The names of a number of kings of Egypt who probably lived in the Predynastic Period have been found in recent years on objects from very early tombs , but nothing is known of the chronology of their reigns .
The names of a number of kings of Egypt who probably lived in the Predynastic Period have been found in recent years on objects from very early tombs , but nothing is known of the chronology of their reigns .
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Rā - meri , Pepi I. In his reign lived Unå , a man of humble birth , who began life in the royal service as a “ crown bearer ” ; he was next made overseer of the workmen , and was soon after sent to Tura to bring back a block of stone ...
Rā - meri , Pepi I. In his reign lived Unå , a man of humble birth , who began life in the royal service as a “ crown bearer ” ; he was next made overseer of the workmen , and was soon after sent to Tura to bring back a block of stone ...
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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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