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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... Upper Egypt, Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son have arranged with Mr. E. A. Wallis Budge to compile the following pages, which they have much pleasure in presenting to every passenger under their Nile arrangements on their Tourist Steamers and ...
... Upper Egypt, Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son have arranged with Mr. E. A. Wallis Budge to compile the following pages, which they have much pleasure in presenting to every passenger under their Nile arrangements on their Tourist Steamers and ...
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... Egypt and the Egyptians, and his is the oldest Greek treatise on the subject ... Egypt, and he appears to have been perfectly acquainted with the ancient ... Upper and Lower Egypt was divided into a large series of small, independent ...
... Egypt and the Egyptians, and his is the oldest Greek treatise on the subject ... Egypt, and he appears to have been perfectly acquainted with the ancient ... Upper and Lower Egypt was divided into a large series of small, independent ...
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... Egypt Baq or Baqet; ; Egypt as the olive-producing country, and as the land of the inundation; the name by which it ... Upper Egypt Ta-res or Ta-qem , “the southern land;” and II. Lower Egypt , , Ta-me “the northern land.” The kings of ...
... Egypt Baq or Baqet; ; Egypt as the olive-producing country, and as the land of the inundation; the name by which it ... Upper Egypt Ta-res or Ta-qem , “the southern land;” and II. Lower Egypt , , Ta-me “the northern land.” The kings of ...
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... Egypt proper terminates at Aswân (Syene); the territory south of that town ... Egypt proper available for cultivation is about 11,500 square miles; the Delta ... Upper Egypt are each divided into seven Provinces, the names of which are as ...
... Egypt proper terminates at Aswân (Syene); the territory south of that town ... Egypt proper available for cultivation is about 11,500 square miles; the Delta ... Upper Egypt are each divided into seven Provinces, the names of which are as ...
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... Egypt is in the hands of the fellâîn. The Copts are also direct descendants from the ancient Egyptians, and inhabit chiefly the cities of Upper Egypt. such as Asyû mîm. The and A name Copt is derived from , the Arabic form of the Coptic ...
... Egypt is in the hands of the fellâîn. The Copts are also direct descendants from the ancient Egyptians, and inhabit chiefly the cities of Upper Egypt. such as Asyû mîm. The and A name Copt is derived from , the Arabic form of the Coptic ...
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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