The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptThos. Cook & son, Ludgate Circus, 1893 - 425 pages |
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... head in the person of Menes . There is , however , no support to be obtained from the inscriptions for either of these theories . The kings of Egypt following after the mythical period are divided into thirty dynasties . For the sake of ...
... head in the person of Menes . There is , however , no support to be obtained from the inscriptions for either of these theories . The kings of Egypt following after the mythical period are divided into thirty dynasties . For the sake of ...
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... head of the statue of Osorkon II . , presented to the British Museum ( No. 1063 ) by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund . The lower part of the nose is broken away , but enough of the upper part remains to show what was its ...
... head of the statue of Osorkon II . , presented to the British Museum ( No. 1063 ) by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund . The lower part of the nose is broken away , but enough of the upper part remains to show what was its ...
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... heads are longer and their features are more European . The Copts are famous in ecclesiastical history for having embraced with extraordinary zeal and rapidity the doctrines of Christianity as preached by St. Mark at Alexandria . Before ...
... heads are longer and their features are more European . The Copts are famous in ecclesiastical history for having embraced with extraordinary zeal and rapidity the doctrines of Christianity as preached by St. Mark at Alexandria . Before ...
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... head of the Nile , Victoria Nyanza , is a huge basin , far below the level of the country round about , into which several streams empty themselves . About 200 miles below Kharțûm the united river receives , on the east side , the ...
... head of the Nile , Victoria Nyanza , is a huge basin , far below the level of the country round about , into which several streams empty themselves . About 200 miles below Kharțûm the united river receives , on the east side , the ...
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... head of the procession is the kher heb or master of funereal ceremonies , who reads from an open roll of papyrus the funereal service . The scene on page 76 represents the ceremony of " opening the mouth , " which takes place at the ...
... head of the procession is the kher heb or master of funereal ceremonies , who reads from an open roll of papyrus the funereal service . The scene on page 76 represents the ceremony of " opening the mouth , " which takes place at the ...
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Abydos Alexandria Amāsis Åmen Amen-Rā Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian antiquities Anubis Arabic Aswân beautiful Black granite body Bubastis building built Bûlâk Cairo called canal cartouches chamber church coffin and mummy comest Coptic Copts dead Dêr east Egyptian Ethiopia excavations famous Fayyûm feet figures funereal Gebel Barkal Gizeh goddess gods granite Greek Hail Hathor Heliopolis hieroglyphic honour Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis IVth Karnak land large number Limestone Limestone stele lord Mariette Maspero Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Muḥammad mummy Nekht Nile Nubia obelisk Osiris papyrus priest Psammetichus Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid Queen Rameses Rameses II Red granite reign represented river Roman Room Sakkârah sarcophagus scarabs scribe sculptures Seti shrine side sphinxes stele stone Suez Sulțân table of offerings tablets Tanis temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Vth dynasty walls XIIth XVIIIth dynasty XXVIth
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Page 34 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Page 97 - Hail to thee, maker of all beings, Lord of law, father of the gods ; maker of men, creator of beasts ; Lord of grains, making food for the beast of the field The One alone without a second King alone, single among the gods ; of many names, unknown is their number.
Page 108 - Isis set out once more in search of the scattered members of her husband's body, using a boat made of the papyrus rush in order the more easily to pass through the lower and fenny parts of the country.
Page 119 - 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 de stroyed.
Page 225 - ... ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile.
Page 128 - Her sacred precinct is thus situated : All except the entrance is an island ; for two canals from the Nile extend to it, not mingling with each other, but each reaches as far as the entrance of the precinct, one flowing round it on one side, the other on the other. Each is a hundred feet broad, and shaded with trees. The portico is ten orgyae in height, and is adorned with figures six cubits high, that are deserving of notice. This precinct, being in the middle of the city, is visible on every side...
Page 281 - ... there was no city under the sun so ' adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold, silver, and ' ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks, cut out of one entire 'stone.
Page viii - It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to run logs in the river.
Page 199 - These balls are at first irregularly shaped and soft, but by degrees, and during the process of rolling along, become rounded and harder; they are propelled by means of the hind legs.
Page 225 - And they worked to the number of 100,000 men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stones, a work in my opinion, not much less than the pyramid...