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land , untutored in the minutiæ of its history , and fairly uncritical of orthography
so long as the names employed serve to convey a definite idea of an undoubted
personage , place , or period . With which prefatory statement , let me turn for a ...
land , untutored in the minutiæ of its history , and fairly uncritical of orthography
so long as the names employed serve to convey a definite idea of an undoubted
personage , place , or period . With which prefatory statement , let me turn for a ...
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But that it must endure for a very appreciable period is certain , and even then its
withdrawal would probably mean nothing more than the substitution of some
other alien hand . Ever since the decline of the Ramessids , ages and ages ago ...
But that it must endure for a very appreciable period is certain , and even then its
withdrawal would probably mean nothing more than the substitution of some
other alien hand . Ever since the decline of the Ramessids , ages and ages ago ...
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... only to the smaller mosques . But with the end of the Kait Bey period - roughly
between 1400 and 1500 A . D . — mosque building ceased to develop in charm ,
and the newer edifices of Cairo cannot be said to compare with the old . It is the ...
... only to the smaller mosques . But with the end of the Kait Bey period - roughly
between 1400 and 1500 A . D . — mosque building ceased to develop in charm ,
and the newer edifices of Cairo cannot be said to compare with the old . It is the ...
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The pity is that it is not more isolated , as are the other tomb - mosques of the
period which lie farther to the north , well out of the nest of buildings and set in the
broad expanse of the desert . The latter succeed much better than Kait Bey ' s ...
The pity is that it is not more isolated , as are the other tomb - mosques of the
period which lie farther to the north , well out of the nest of buildings and set in the
broad expanse of the desert . The latter succeed much better than Kait Bey ' s ...
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Such non - mortuary temples as remain , apart from the glorious composite at
Karnak , date mainly from the Ptolemaic period and are therefore very late as
compared with the general antiquity of Egypt . In only a few isolated instances ,
such as ...
Such non - mortuary temples as remain , apart from the glorious composite at
Karnak , date mainly from the Ptolemaic period and are therefore very late as
compared with the general antiquity of Egypt . In only a few isolated instances ,
such as ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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