Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 61
... professors . " They come from all the nations that embrace Islam , and the guide indicates the several races as one passes them at their work . The foreign students sleep in the galleries of the lateral arcades . All the students are ...
... professors . " They come from all the nations that embrace Islam , and the guide indicates the several races as one passes them at their work . The foreign students sleep in the galleries of the lateral arcades . All the students are ...
Page 122
... Professor Breasted ; and the accompanying table is designed to reveal at a glance the relative positions of the great dynastic periods with which it is advisable to become fairly familiar before venturing south from Cairo , or even out ...
... Professor Breasted ; and the accompanying table is designed to reveal at a glance the relative positions of the great dynastic periods with which it is advisable to become fairly familiar before venturing south from Cairo , or even out ...
Page 149
... Professor Petrie avers that this account is entirely consistent with the task involved in conveying this enormous volume of cut stone from the quarries of Turra and raising it into position with the crude engines of that day . Besides ...
... Professor Petrie avers that this account is entirely consistent with the task involved in conveying this enormous volume of cut stone from the quarries of Turra and raising it into position with the crude engines of that day . Besides ...
Page 182
... Professor , who is with us , has a single room on the deck above . He , too , would have plenty of room if it were not for the water- that is to say , drinking - water , of which the Professor has providently laid in a large supply ...
... Professor , who is with us , has a single room on the deck above . He , too , would have plenty of room if it were not for the water- that is to say , drinking - water , of which the Professor has providently laid in a large supply ...
Page 184
... Professor had n't been to Sakkara , being newly arrived in Egypt , and Katrina agreed to go along and take care of him . In fact , they have already gone . As for me , I write . I did manage to board a donkey and ride him out to the ...
... Professor had n't been to Sakkara , being newly arrived in Egypt , and Katrina agreed to go along and take care of him . In fact , they have already gone . As for me , I write . I did manage to board a donkey and ride him out to the ...
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