Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... monuments and mummies . Competent authority now awards to Egypt the honor of being the source and origin of our modern civiliz- ation , preferring its claim thereto above the claims of the valley of the Euphrates . A minority go there ...
... monuments and mummies . Competent authority now awards to Egypt the honor of being the source and origin of our modern civiliz- ation , preferring its claim thereto above the claims of the valley of the Euphrates . A minority go there ...
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... monuments that portion of Egypt may once have boasted as referring to the ancient civilization have either vanished under the hand of an obelisk - hunting generation or have sunk to obliv- ion in the accretions of Nile mud . To be sure ...
... monuments that portion of Egypt may once have boasted as referring to the ancient civilization have either vanished under the hand of an obelisk - hunting generation or have sunk to obliv- ion in the accretions of Nile mud . To be sure ...
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... monument in any general view of the city . Time and the occasional earthquake have proved powerless to rob it of its intrinsic majesty ; and its grim walls , crowned with massive cornices , frown steadfastly down on the babel of the ...
... monument in any general view of the city . Time and the occasional earthquake have proved powerless to rob it of its intrinsic majesty ; and its grim walls , crowned with massive cornices , frown steadfastly down on the babel of the ...
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... monument and beheld that it was very good , ordered his sword , and with it struck off the right hand of the architect that he might never again design another building to rival this . The Sultan , you observe , generally paid in full ...
... monument and beheld that it was very good , ordered his sword , and with it struck off the right hand of the architect that he might never again design another building to rival this . The Sultan , you observe , generally paid in full ...
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... monument as this is bewildered and confused , how much greater is the confusion of one writing of it - forced to say something , yet knowing neither where to begin nor where to end ? - I am content to let the task go largely unperformed ...
... monument as this is bewildered and confused , how much greater is the confusion of one writing of it - forced to say something , yet knowing neither where to begin nor where to end ? - I am content to let the task go largely unperformed ...
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Abydos Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ammon Ammon-Ra ancient appears Arabs Assiut Assuan backsheesh bank bazaars Beni Hassan body building Cairo camel carved cemetery chapel Cheops Citadel cliffs colossi columns court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Hassan Hatasu Hathor history of Egypt Horus huge hypostyle hall impressive Isis Karnak Khephrên king KOM OMBO land later lofty Luxor magnificent massive mastaba mastaba tomb Memphis midst miles modern Mohammed monarchs monument mortuary mosque Mouski mummy native Nile once Osiris passed Pharaoh Philæ Professor Ptolemies pylon pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum Raschid ride river rock ruin sacred Sakkâra sands seems seen Seti shrine side sort sowaheen Sphinx spot steamer stone Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship
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Page 103 - Those who, avoiding great expense, desire the middle way, they prepare in the following manner. When they have charged their syringes with oil made from cedar, they fill the abdomen of the corpse without making any incision or taking out the bowels, but inject it at the fundament ; and having prevented the injection from escaping, they steep the body in natrum for the prescribed number of days, and on the last day they let out from the abdomen the oil of cedar which they had before injected, and...
Page 103 - ... infusion of drugs. Then with a sharp Ethiopian stone they make an incision in the side and take out all the bowels; and having cleansed the abdomen and rinsed it with palm-wine, they next sprinkle it with pounded perfumes. Then, having filled the belly with pure myrrh pounded, and cassia, and other perfumes, frankincense excepted, they sew it up again; and when they have done this they steep it in natrum, leaving it under for seventy days ; for a longer time than this it is not lawful to steep...
Page 103 - First they draw out the brains through the nostrils with an iron hook, taking part of it out in this manner, the rest by the infusion of drugs. Then with a sharp Ethiopian stone they make an incision in the side, and take out all the bowels; and having cleansed the abdomen and rinsed it with palm wine, they next sprinkle it with pounded perfumes. Then having filled the belly with pure myrrh pounded, and cassia, and other perfumes, frankincense excepted, they sew it up again; and when they have done...
Page 103 - Then having filled the belly with pure myrrh pounded, and cassia, and other perfumes, frankincense excepted, they sew it up again ; and when they have done this, they steep it in natrum, leaving it under for seventy days ; for a longer time than this it is not lawful to steep it. At the expiration of the seventy days they wash the corpse, and wrap the whole body in bandages of flaxen cloth, smearing it with gum, which the Egyptians commonly use instead of glue. After this the relations, having taken...
Page 104 - ... from escaping, they steep the body in natrum for the prescribed number of days, and on the last day they let out from the abdomen the oil of cedar which they had before injected, and it has such power that it brings away the intestines and vitals in a state of dissolution ; the natrum dissolves the flesh, and nothing of the body remains but the skin and the bones.
Page 104 - ... which they had before injected, and it has such power that it brings away the intestines and vitals in a state of dissolution ; the natrum dissolves the flesh, and nothing of the body remains but the skin and the bones. When they have done this they return the body without any further operation.
Page 56 - ... window-ledge just over the spot where condemned criminals were wont to be garroted in the brave days of old, intent on securing a picture of the old gate, the Red Mosque behind, the stream of passing traffic below, and the soaring minaret above, — but all in vain. It was a dismal failure. In no city are street scenes more difficult to photograph than in Cairo, where the upper air is so brilliant and the lower levels so shrouded in shadow.
Page 186 - I fancy this occasional contact with the African continent under our feet will become so common an occurrence that we shall soon pay little heed to it.