The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... Arabs Haram aş- Şayyâdîn , 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. Nefer - ka - Rā , Pepi II HISTORICAL SUMMARY .
... Arabs Haram aş- Şayyâdîn , 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. Nefer - ka - Rā , Pepi II HISTORICAL SUMMARY .
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... opened by Mr. Theodore M. Davis in 1904 . Tehuti - mes ( Thothmes ) III . , the son of Thoth- mes II . by the lady Åset , made at least thirteen expeditions into Mesopotamia and other countries , and returned laden with spoil . On the ...
... opened by Mr. Theodore M. Davis in 1904 . Tehuti - mes ( Thothmes ) III . , the son of Thoth- mes II . by the lady Åset , made at least thirteen expeditions into Mesopotamia and other countries , and returned laden with spoil . On the ...
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... . Tehuti - mes IV . He cleared the Sphinx from the sand under which it was buried . The tomb of this king was opened by Mr. Theodore M. Davis in 1902 and 1903 . B.C. 1500. Amen - hetep III . , the Memnon HISTORICAL SUMMARY . 43.
... . Tehuti - mes IV . He cleared the Sphinx from the sand under which it was buried . The tomb of this king was opened by Mr. Theodore M. Davis in 1902 and 1903 . B.C. 1500. Amen - hetep III . , the Memnon HISTORICAL SUMMARY . 43.
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... opened a new quarry at Tura . He is said to have devoted himself to the pursuit of magic , and to have neglected his empire ; when Artaxerxes III . ( Ochus ) took Pelusium he fled from his kingdom , and the Persians again ruled Egypt ...
... opened a new quarry at Tura . He is said to have devoted himself to the pursuit of magic , and to have neglected his empire ; when Artaxerxes III . ( Ochus ) took Pelusium he fled from his kingdom , and the Persians again ruled Egypt ...
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... opened . The Greeks were besieged by the Jews in Alexandria , and were relieved by Marcius Turbo ; the Jewish colony was almost annihilated . Turbo built the fortress of Babylon . 117. Hadrian . He founded the city of Antinoopolis in ...
... opened . The Greeks were besieged by the Jews in Alexandria , and were relieved by Marcius Turbo ; the Jewish colony was almost annihilated . Turbo built the fortress of Babylon . 117. Hadrian . He founded the city of Antinoopolis in ...
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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.