Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 28
... numerous . Copts are reckoned as numbering only about 600,000 souls . No one seems to like them , despite their usefulness and quickness of comprehension . They do not get on well either with the English or with the natives of the ...
... numerous . Copts are reckoned as numbering only about 600,000 souls . No one seems to like them , despite their usefulness and quickness of comprehension . They do not get on well either with the English or with the natives of the ...
Page 43
... numerous World's Fairs , on whose re- productions of Oriental life most of us base our pre- conceptions of the streets of Cairo . - It is in the great highway that leads down past Shepheard's that one first meets the real East — an East ...
... numerous World's Fairs , on whose re- productions of Oriental life most of us base our pre- conceptions of the streets of Cairo . - It is in the great highway that leads down past Shepheard's that one first meets the real East — an East ...
Page 47
... numerous bazaars that are to be found all about this congested district . There is another just across the Mouski , on the other side among the closely set houses - a deep lane that is even more easily overlooked than the well - trodden ...
... numerous bazaars that are to be found all about this congested district . There is another just across the Mouski , on the other side among the closely set houses - a deep lane that is even more easily overlooked than the well - trodden ...
Page 103
... Numerous lateral chambers were provided in the living rock , each decorated with a world of symbolical painting- much of it having to do with the abode of the dead , however , instead of as before with the life , activities , and sports ...
... Numerous lateral chambers were provided in the living rock , each decorated with a world of symbolical painting- much of it having to do with the abode of the dead , however , instead of as before with the life , activities , and sports ...
Page 107
... Numerous as the genuine scarabs must have been , they have proved insufficient to supply the army of modern collectors , and one of the great industries of Egypt has come to be the vending of fraudulent imita- tions . The safest rule is ...
... Numerous as the genuine scarabs must have been , they have proved insufficient to supply the army of modern collectors , and one of the great industries of Egypt has come to be the vending of fraudulent imita- tions . The safest rule is ...
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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