Budge's Egypt: A Classic 19th-Century Travel GuideCourier Corporation, 2012 M08 13 - 336 pages Focusing on the monuments on either side of the Nile, the author describes Egyptians, their writing, religion and gods, plus historic locales and objects: Alexandria, Cairo, the Rosetta Stone, the pyramids, the Sphinx; the statue of Rameses II, the temples at Luxor and Karnak, major sites where royal mummies were discovered, and more. |
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... Arabs and Turks. It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to describe, otherwise than in the briefest possible manner, its history under these ... Arabic âhira, El-U have not been altered. Similarly, the ordinary well-known.
... Arabs and Turks. It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to describe, otherwise than in the briefest possible manner, its history under these ... Arabic âhira, El-U have not been altered. Similarly, the ordinary well-known.
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... Arabic names “Rameses,” “Thothmes,” “Amenophis,” “Amsis,” “Psammetichus,” “Hophra” or “Apries,” etc., etc., have been used in preference to the more correct transcriptions “R uti- -messu,” “Te mes,” “ ,” “ ,” “Psemthek,” “ ” The dates ...
... Arabic names “Rameses,” “Thothmes,” “Amenophis,” “Amsis,” “Psammetichus,” “Hophra” or “Apries,” etc., etc., have been used in preference to the more correct transcriptions “R uti- -messu,” “Te mes,” “ ,” “ ,” “Psemthek,” “ ” The dates ...
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... Arabs El-Fayûm,11 was built. The rise of the Nile was marked on the rocks at Semneh, about thirty-five miles above the second cataract, and the inscriptions are visible to this day. 2266. IV. 2233. Dynasties XIII–XVII. The Hyksos Period ...
... Arabs El-Fayûm,11 was built. The rise of the Nile was marked on the rocks at Semneh, about thirty-five miles above the second cataract, and the inscriptions are visible to this day. 2266. IV. 2233. Dynasties XIII–XVII. The Hyksos Period ...
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... Arabs, and Turks, have had no permanent effect either on their physical or mental characteristics. The Egyptian has seen the civilizations of all these nations rise up, progress flourish, decay, and pass away ; he has been influenced ...
... Arabs, and Turks, have had no permanent effect either on their physical or mental characteristics. The Egyptian has seen the civilizations of all these nations rise up, progress flourish, decay, and pass away ; he has been influenced ...
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... Arabic form of the Coptic form of the Greek name for Egyptian, A ; it may be mentioned, in passing, that A , Egypt, is thought by some to be derived from an ub ancient Egyptian name for Memphis, , “The house of the genius et-ka-Pta of ...
... Arabic form of the Coptic form of the Greek name for Egyptian, A ; it may be mentioned, in passing, that A , Egypt, is thought by some to be derived from an ub ancient Egyptian name for Memphis, , “The house of the genius et-ka-Pta of ...
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Abydos Alexandria Amen Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Antef Apis Arabic Aswân Autocrator Caesar beautiful building built Bûlâ Cairo called Cambyses canal cataract century chamber Chephren Chnemu Christians church coffin and mummy columns Coptic Copts crocodile Dêr E. A. Wallis Budge east bank etep Ethiopians excavations famous feet high Girgeh Gîzeh gods granite Greek Harmachis Hathor Heliopolis hemt hewn hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak king of Egypt Lake land large number lived lord Manetho Mariette Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Museum Nile Nilometer Nubia obelisks Osiris papyrus Pepi Philæ priests Ptah Ptolemy pylon pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign represented river Roman royal Saârah sarcophagus scenes sculptures Serapeum Seti side sphinxes stele stone stood Strabo Suez Suten Tablet temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen walls west bank worshipped XIIth dynasty