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Pompey's Pillar Cleopatra's Needles Catacombs Kafr ad - Dawâr ... Damanhûr Teh al - Barûd Kafr az - Zayyât and $ â al - Hagar Tanța Benha el - ' Asal Rosetta Stone Port Sa'id , Suez , and the Suez Canal ... The Peninsula of Sinai 367 ...
Pompey's Pillar Cleopatra's Needles Catacombs Kafr ad - Dawâr ... Damanhûr Teh al - Barûd Kafr az - Zayyât and $ â al - Hagar Tanța Benha el - ' Asal Rosetta Stone Port Sa'id , Suez , and the Suez Canal ... The Peninsula of Sinai 367 ...
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“ Pompey's Pillar ” erected A.D. 302. Persecution of Christians A.D. 304 . The Copts date the era of the Martyrs from the day of Diocletian's accession to the throne ( August 29 ) . It is thought that “ Pompey's Pillar ” was set up by ...
“ Pompey's Pillar ” erected A.D. 302. Persecution of Christians A.D. 304 . The Copts date the era of the Martyrs from the day of Diocletian's accession to the throne ( August 29 ) . It is thought that “ Pompey's Pillar ” was set up by ...
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It contains true pointed arches , was built of new materials instead of old ones stolen from Christian churches , etc. , and its 300 arches and pillars are built of brick . Its total cost was over £ 63,000 . 833.
It contains true pointed arches , was built of new materials instead of old ones stolen from Christian churches , etc. , and its 300 arches and pillars are built of brick . Its total cost was over £ 63,000 . 833.
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... with square pillars , appears in front . The interior of the mașțăba may be divided into chambers , the number of these varying according to the size of the monument and the fancy of the builder ; usually , however , a masțăba ...
... with square pillars , appears in front . The interior of the mașțăba may be divided into chambers , the number of these varying according to the size of the monument and the fancy of the builder ; usually , however , a masțăba ...
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A small portico is often formed by means of two or more square or rectangular pillars cut out of the rock , also an entablature which consists of an architrave and a kind of cornice . When space permitted a portion of the hill or ...
A small portico is often formed by means of two or more square or rectangular pillars cut out of the rock , also an entablature which consists of an architrave and a kind of cornice . When space permitted a portion of the hill or ...
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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...
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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.