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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... Museum. IV. Decrees, Scarabs, Statues of Kings and Private Persons are fruitful sources of information about historical, religious, and chronological subjects. V. Biblical notices about Egypt and allusions to events of Egyptian history ...
... Museum. IV. Decrees, Scarabs, Statues of Kings and Private Persons are fruitful sources of information about historical, religious, and chronological subjects. V. Biblical notices about Egypt and allusions to events of Egyptian history ...
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... Museums of London and Berlin, some are at the Gîzeh Museum, and some are in private hands. The Assyrian kings Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Assurbanipal marched against Egypt; Tirhakah defeated Sennacherib at Eltekeh, but was defeated by ...
... Museums of London and Berlin, some are at the Gîzeh Museum, and some are in private hands. The Assyrian kings Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Assurbanipal marched against Egypt; Tirhakah defeated Sennacherib at Eltekeh, but was defeated by ...
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... Museum. Some copies of the Book of the Dead say that the 64th chapter of that work was compiled during the reign of this king. Dynasty V, from Elephantine. 3366. etep were written during the reign of this king. e -ka-R . The Precepts of ...
... Museum. Some copies of the Book of the Dead say that the 64th chapter of that work was compiled during the reign of this king. Dynasty V, from Elephantine. 3366. etep were written during the reign of this king. e -ka-R . The Precepts of ...
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... Museums of London and Berlin. (“brilliance, or glory of the IV. or the ruins of which are called Tell el-Amarna, and of the heresy of the diskworshippers. He was succeeded by a few kings who held the same religious opinions as himself ...
... Museums of London and Berlin. (“brilliance, or glory of the IV. or the ruins of which are called Tell el-Amarna, and of the heresy of the diskworshippers. He was succeeded by a few kings who held the same religious opinions as himself ...
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... Museum, and encouraged excavations on the sites of the ancient cities of Egypt. 1863. Isma'îl, son of Ibrâhîm Pasha, and grandson of Muammad 'Ali, was born in 1830. He was made Khedive in 1867. He caused railways, docks, and canals to ...
... Museum, and encouraged excavations on the sites of the ancient cities of Egypt. 1863. Isma'îl, son of Ibrâhîm Pasha, and grandson of Muammad 'Ali, was born in 1830. He was made Khedive in 1867. He caused railways, docks, and canals to ...
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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