Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... by many hundred people every year - seems best suited to the scope of the present work . PHILIP SANFORD MARDEN . - LOWELL , MASSACHUSETTS , January 12 , 1912 . CONTENTS PART I I. SOWAHEEN IN EGYPT II . MODERN viii PREFACE.
... by many hundred people every year - seems best suited to the scope of the present work . PHILIP SANFORD MARDEN . - LOWELL , MASSACHUSETTS , January 12 , 1912 . CONTENTS PART I I. SOWAHEEN IN EGYPT II . MODERN viii PREFACE.
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... present Egyptian people , both Mohammedan and Coptic , are by edu- cation and temperament unfit to administer a gov- ernment of their own . And it is in the conflict between Copt and Moslem that most of the current unrest under British ...
... present Egyptian people , both Mohammedan and Coptic , are by edu- cation and temperament unfit to administer a gov- ernment of their own . And it is in the conflict between Copt and Moslem that most of the current unrest under British ...
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... present increase in Egypt's prosperity . The erection of the dam at Assuan , for example , while it has already added to the product- ive territory of Egypt an area not far from the size of Rhode Island , has seriously impaired the ...
... present increase in Egypt's prosperity . The erection of the dam at Assuan , for example , while it has already added to the product- ive territory of Egypt an area not far from the size of Rhode Island , has seriously impaired the ...
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... present name is merely a corruption of the Greek word for Egyptian . Racially they are blood - brothers of the Mohammedan so far as the latter is Egyptian at all . One must bear in mind , however , that the Moslem population has been ...
... present name is merely a corruption of the Greek word for Egyptian . Racially they are blood - brothers of the Mohammedan so far as the latter is Egyptian at all . One must bear in mind , however , that the Moslem population has been ...
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... present a perfect labyrinth . From the muddle of streets arises a clatter and a tumult muffled by the distance . Far across the city towers the dome of the museum and away to the west the pyramids rear themselves majestically through ...
... present a perfect labyrinth . From the muddle of streets arises a clatter and a tumult muffled by the distance . Far across the city towers the dome of the museum and away to the west the pyramids rear themselves majestically through ...
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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