Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... STREETS OF CAIRO THE TOMBS OF THE CALIPHS • THE TOMB MOSQUE OF KAIT BEY IN THE TOMB MOSQUE OF SULTAN BARKUK DIORITE STATUE OF KHEPHRÊN • 38 46 · 72 76 76 88 WOODEN STATUE OF THE " SHEKH EL - BELED " . 96 SECTION AND PLAN OF MASTABA TOMB ...
... STREETS OF CAIRO THE TOMBS OF THE CALIPHS • THE TOMB MOSQUE OF KAIT BEY IN THE TOMB MOSQUE OF SULTAN BARKUK DIORITE STATUE OF KHEPHRÊN • 38 46 · 72 76 76 88 WOODEN STATUE OF THE " SHEKH EL - BELED " . 96 SECTION AND PLAN OF MASTABA TOMB ...
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... the city which had mocked us through the day had vanished in the blackness . The special train was waiting on the quay . The luggage had all. CHAPTER III . MOSQUES AND BAZAARS IN THE STREETS OF CAIRO. MOSQUES AND BAZAARS OF CAIRO.
... the city which had mocked us through the day had vanished in the blackness . The special train was waiting on the quay . The luggage had all. CHAPTER III . MOSQUES AND BAZAARS IN THE STREETS OF CAIRO. MOSQUES AND BAZAARS OF CAIRO.
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... streets that led down toward the bank of the Nile . That was an arrival never to be forgotten . The long ride led through a maze of streets lined with tall buildings , across squares aglow with light , and at last down past the museum ...
... streets that led down toward the bank of the Nile . That was an arrival never to be forgotten . The long ride led through a maze of streets lined with tall buildings , across squares aglow with light , and at last down past the museum ...
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... street are largely made up of those in the manifold costumes of the East . The cab drivers are swarthy and wear the tarbush . The multitude afoot is turbaned and long - robed . But the whole effect of the setting is not Oriental , and ...
... street are largely made up of those in the manifold costumes of the East . The cab drivers are swarthy and wear the tarbush . The multitude afoot is turbaned and long - robed . But the whole effect of the setting is not Oriental , and ...
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... streets that the traveler will need to know . These are the Mouski , the most celebrated street in Cairo , which leads straight east through the Oriental quarter and the bazaars and finally out into the desert toward the tombs of the ...
... streets that the traveler will need to know . These are the Mouski , the most celebrated street in Cairo , which leads straight east through the Oriental quarter and the bazaars and finally out into the desert toward the tombs of the ...
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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