Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... IN THE TEMPLE OF SETI , ABYDOS RELIEF , " SETI AT WORSHIP , " ABYDOS MAP OF EGYPT SHOWING RIVER DISTANCES • . 276 280 . 282 • 284 . 286 286 . 294 • 302 • 310 • 314 · 325 EGYPTIAN DAYS PART I 000 oood lood OWAHEEN - the xii ILLUSTRATIONS.
... IN THE TEMPLE OF SETI , ABYDOS RELIEF , " SETI AT WORSHIP , " ABYDOS MAP OF EGYPT SHOWING RIVER DISTANCES • . 276 280 . 282 • 284 . 286 286 . 294 • 302 • 310 • 314 · 325 EGYPTIAN DAYS PART I 000 oood lood OWAHEEN - the xii ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... river . It is common to refer to the climate of Egypt as rainless , and to all intents and purposes that is true . Like all generalizations , however , it is dangerous . It may rain as hard in Cairo as in any other city of the earth ...
... river . It is common to refer to the climate of Egypt as rainless , and to all intents and purposes that is true . Like all generalizations , however , it is dangerous . It may rain as hard in Cairo as in any other city of the earth ...
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... river cliffs and whirls across the waters and the narrow plain . It is scarcely more depressing than its blood- brother , the scirocco ; and is it not one of the things that one goes out to Egypt " for to see " ? Shall we condemn the ...
... river cliffs and whirls across the waters and the narrow plain . It is scarcely more depressing than its blood- brother , the scirocco ; and is it not one of the things that one goes out to Egypt " for to see " ? Shall we condemn the ...
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... river , and by the determination of what sights he will see and what omit in the long and narrow strip that stretches from Cairo to the Second Cataract . By far the greatest number are content to go no farther south than Assuan , even ...
... river , and by the determination of what sights he will see and what omit in the long and narrow strip that stretches from Cairo to the Second Cataract . By far the greatest number are content to go no farther south than Assuan , even ...
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... river ; or , if desirable , these two modes of travel may be combined . But that completes the list of alternatives . No highroads exist in Egypt , out- side the immediate environs of Cairo and one or two of the larger towns , so that ...
... river ; or , if desirable , these two modes of travel may be combined . But that completes the list of alternatives . No highroads exist in Egypt , out- side the immediate environs of Cairo and one or two of the larger towns , so that ...
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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