Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... King of Kings ; Look on my works , ye Mighty , and despair ! ' Nothing beside remains . Round the decay Of that colossal wreck , boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away . SHELLEY PREFACE HE primary object of this ...
... King of Kings ; Look on my works , ye Mighty , and despair ! ' Nothing beside remains . Round the decay Of that colossal wreck , boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away . SHELLEY PREFACE HE primary object of this ...
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... kings . The mass of close - packed houses is threaded by a network of numberless alleys , deep and dark , yet as a rule surprisingly clean . One or two main thoroughfares cross through it the famous Mouski , dear to the heart of all ...
... kings . The mass of close - packed houses is threaded by a network of numberless alleys , deep and dark , yet as a rule surprisingly clean . One or two main thoroughfares cross through it the famous Mouski , dear to the heart of all ...
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... kings are by no means the oldest objects in the building , but their effect is unquestionably the most overpowering and impress- ive . It is no light matter to feel that one looks upon the very flesh and bone , the very faces and ...
... kings are by no means the oldest objects in the building , but their effect is unquestionably the most overpowering and impress- ive . It is no light matter to feel that one looks upon the very flesh and bone , the very faces and ...
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... king , of which more will be said later ; and it may easily have been meant as an alternative body , failing any other , when the ka should seek once more to resume its old abode . In any case its excellence is sufficient to make it a ...
... king , of which more will be said later ; and it may easily have been meant as an alternative body , failing any other , when the ka should seek once more to resume its old abode . In any case its excellence is sufficient to make it a ...
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... king's sepulchre it was hollowed out of the bare and rugged rocks of a deep , secluded valley on the west bank of the Nile -a valley practically inclosed on every hand by fierce and barren crags , in whose sandy bottom there was no life ...
... king's sepulchre it was hollowed out of the bare and rugged rocks of a deep , secluded valley on the west bank of the Nile -a valley practically inclosed on every hand by fierce and barren crags , in whose sandy bottom there was no life ...
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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 Copts court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Greek Hassan Hatasu Hathor 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 Ptolemaic 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 street Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship