The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... probably entered the country by the old caravan road which ran from Syria to the north - east of the Delta , and sojourned in the district round about Tanis , where grain was to be had in abundance , and where the fertility of the land ...
... probably entered the country by the old caravan road which ran from Syria to the north - east of the Delta , and sojourned in the district round about Tanis , where grain was to be had in abundance , and where the fertility of the land ...
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... probably after the death of Rameses II , at the period when the Libyan tribes attempted to gain possession of the Delta in the reign of Menephthah , and as the policy of the kings of the XIXth dynasty was " Egypt for the Egyptians ...
... probably after the death of Rameses II , at the period when the Libyan tribes attempted to gain possession of the Delta in the reign of Menephthah , and as the policy of the kings of the XIXth dynasty was " Egypt for the Egyptians ...
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... probably made of papyrus , and Dr. Birch pointed out many years ago that Moses ' mother used this plant in making the " ark , " because , being sacred to Isis , crocodiles would not approach it to do the child harm . Isis hid her own ...
... probably made of papyrus , and Dr. Birch pointed out many years ago that Moses ' mother used this plant in making the " ark , " because , being sacred to Isis , crocodiles would not approach it to do the child harm . Isis hid her own ...
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... probably written between the years B.C. 1500-1450 . The Tell al - Amarna tablets supply entirely new informa- tion concerning the political relations which existed between the kings of Egypt and the kings of Western Asia , and prove ...
... probably written between the years B.C. 1500-1450 . The Tell al - Amarna tablets supply entirely new informa- tion concerning the political relations which existed between the kings of Egypt and the kings of Western Asia , and prove ...
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... probably nothing more than a long series of petty chiefs or kings who reigned over very limited areas in different parts of Egypt , many being , no doubt , contemporaneous . After these came the Nékves or Manes , who are said to have ...
... probably nothing more than a long series of petty chiefs or kings who reigned over very limited areas in different parts of Egypt , many being , no doubt , contemporaneous . After these came the Nékves or Manes , who are said to have ...
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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.