The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... rule of the Persians , Ptolemies , Romans , Arabs , and Turks . It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to describe , otherwise than in the briefest manner possible , its history under these foreign rulers , and only such ...
... rule of the Persians , Ptolemies , Romans , Arabs , and Turks . It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to describe , otherwise than in the briefest manner possible , its history under these foreign rulers , and only such ...
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... Macedonians Ptolemies ... ... Dates assigned to the Egyptian Dynasties by Egyptologists Romans ... The Byzantines Muḥammadans ... IO 16 20 20 24 26 AN 27 35 46 54 56 58 62 63 69 71 Turkish Rule ... ... French Rule ... Muḥammad ' Alî.
... Macedonians Ptolemies ... ... Dates assigned to the Egyptian Dynasties by Egyptologists Romans ... The Byzantines Muḥammadans ... IO 16 20 20 24 26 AN 27 35 46 54 56 58 62 63 69 71 Turkish Rule ... ... French Rule ... Muḥammad ' Alî.
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Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge. Turkish Rule ... ... French Rule ... Muḥammad ' Alî and his family British Rule ... The Egyptian Flag ... Egyptian Money ... British Financial Policy in Egypt The Country of Egypt The Nomes of Egypt The ...
Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge. Turkish Rule ... ... French Rule ... Muḥammad ' Alî and his family British Rule ... The Egyptian Flag ... Egyptian Money ... British Financial Policy in Egypt The Country of Egypt The Nomes of Egypt The ...
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... rule of the Hyksos , about B.C. 1700 . The name of each king during this period , together with the length of his reign in years , months and days , was given , and it would have been , beyond all doubt , the most valuable of all ...
... rule of the Hyksos , about B.C. 1700 . The name of each king during this period , together with the length of his reign in years , months and days , was given , and it would have been , beyond all doubt , the most valuable of all ...
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... rule of the Hyksos , i.e. , some time before B.C. 1700 , and a good deal may be said in favour of this view . On the other hand , the names of Potipherah , and Asenath , and Zaphnath - paaneah all belong to a period some 700 years later ...
... rule of the Hyksos , i.e. , some time before B.C. 1700 , and a good deal may be said in favour of this view . On the other hand , the names of Potipherah , and Asenath , and Zaphnath - paaneah all belong to a period some 700 years later ...
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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.