Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... MASTABA TOMB THE APPROACH TO THE PYRAMIDS . THE THREE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH THE SPHINX AND PYRAMID OF CHEOPS 99-100 • • 138 · • 142 • 142 SECTION OF GREAT PYRAMID , SHOWING LOWER LIMIT OF ORIGINAL PLAN THE STEP - PYRAMID AT SAKKÂRA ...
... MASTABA TOMB THE APPROACH TO THE PYRAMIDS . THE THREE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH THE SPHINX AND PYRAMID OF CHEOPS 99-100 • • 138 · • 142 • 142 SECTION OF GREAT PYRAMID , SHOWING LOWER LIMIT OF ORIGINAL PLAN THE STEP - PYRAMID AT SAKKÂRA ...
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... mastaba " - the little bench before every shop - door - sits a venerable and be - turbaned patriarch , pulling industriously at his narghileh . A boy hurries by with a tray of coffee for the customers of some near - by shop . A water ...
... mastaba " - the little bench before every shop - door - sits a venerable and be - turbaned patriarch , pulling industriously at his narghileh . A boy hurries by with a tray of coffee for the customers of some near - by shop . A water ...
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... mastaba " tomb , so - called because of its resemblance to the mastaba , or bench , found before all Cairo shops . Of all early tombs the mastaba 98 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... mastaba " tomb , so - called because of its resemblance to the mastaba , or bench , found before all Cairo shops . Of all early tombs the mastaba 98 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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... mastaba tomb consisted of a rectangular building aboveground , with sloping CERDAY CHAPEL FALIR DOOR GROUND PLAN SHAFT OF MASTABA TOMB sides and not of great height , in which was hollowed out the tomb chapel . The body itself was ...
... mastaba tomb consisted of a rectangular building aboveground , with sloping CERDAY CHAPEL FALIR DOOR GROUND PLAN SHAFT OF MASTABA TOMB sides and not of great height , in which was hollowed out the tomb chapel . The body itself was ...
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... MASTABA TOMB needs no more than a word . The eye sees at a glance what followed the ambitious design of piling mastaba upon mastaba in a gradually narrowing scale . Even the drifting sands must have suggested the filling - in of the ...
... MASTABA TOMB needs no more than a word . The eye sees at a glance what followed the ambitious design of piling mastaba upon mastaba in a gradually narrowing scale . Even the drifting sands must have suggested the filling - in of the ...
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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