Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... seem that the addition of yet another in- volves some temerity on my part . But of such a book as this there has seemed to me to be a very genuine need , owing to the fact that the previously existing works on this subject have sought ...
... seem that the addition of yet another in- volves some temerity on my part . But of such a book as this there has seemed to me to be a very genuine need , owing to the fact that the previously existing works on this subject have sought ...
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... as is made 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.
... as is made 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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... seems to require no apology . But the fact may serve to call attention at the outset to the great and first difficulty that greets one on the threshold of a work like this , namely , that of deciding upon any definite system of ...
... seems to require no apology . But the fact may serve to call attention at the outset to the great and first difficulty that greets one on the threshold of a work like this , namely , that of deciding upon any definite system of ...
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... seem most convenient to the needs of other " sowaheen " visit- ing Egypt for the first time in the same case with myself ; to wit , unlearned in the archæology of the land , untutored in the minutiae of its history , 4 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... seem most convenient to the needs of other " sowaheen " visit- ing Egypt for the first time in the same case with myself ; to wit , unlearned in the archæology of the land , untutored in the minutiae of its history , 4 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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... seem likely to be useful to the individual " sowâh . " The vast majority of people who visit Egypt do so , I suppose , because of the intense historic interest of the country and because of the overmastering antiquity of its surviving ...
... seem likely to be useful to the individual " sowâh . " The vast majority of people who visit Egypt do so , I suppose , because of the intense historic interest of the country and because of the overmastering antiquity of its surviving ...
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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