The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son, 1892 - 374 pages |
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... given by Dragomans to travellers on the Nile , and finding with one or two striking exceptions how limited is their knowledge of facts relating to the history of the antiquities in Upper Egypt , Messrs . Thos . Cook and Son have ...
... given by Dragomans to travellers on the Nile , and finding with one or two striking exceptions how limited is their knowledge of facts relating to the history of the antiquities in Upper Egypt , Messrs . Thos . Cook and Son have ...
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... given in the " Programme " issued yearly by Thos . Cook and Son . In transcribing Arabic names of places the most authoritative forms have been followed , but such well- known names as " Luxor , " in Arabic El - Uksûr or El - kuşûr ...
... given in the " Programme " issued yearly by Thos . Cook and Son . In transcribing Arabic names of places the most authoritative forms have been followed , but such well- known names as " Luxor , " in Arabic El - Uksûr or El - kuşûr ...
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... given . During the last two years Prof. J. Norman Lockyer , F.R.S. , has been engaged in making careful investigations into the subject of the orientation of Egyptian temples , from which we may one day hope to obtain data for finding ...
... given . During the last two years Prof. J. Norman Lockyer , F.R.S. , has been engaged in making careful investigations into the subject of the orientation of Egyptian temples , from which we may one day hope to obtain data for finding ...
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... given , and it would have been , beyond all doubt , the most valuable of all documents for the chronology of the oldest period of Egyptian history , if scholars had been able to make use of it in the perfect condition in which it was B ...
... given , and it would have been , beyond all doubt , the most valuable of all documents for the chronology of the oldest period of Egyptian history , if scholars had been able to make use of it in the perfect condition in which it was B ...
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... given to the oval which the name of a royal person is enclosed . The ordinary word for " king " is www in suten . The word Pharaoh ,, which the Hebrews called the kings of Egypt , is derived from the Egyptian or per aa , otherwise ...
... given to the oval which the name of a royal person is enclosed . The ordinary word for " king " is www in suten . The word Pharaoh ,, which the Hebrews called the kings of Egypt , is derived from the Egyptian or per aa , otherwise ...
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Abydos Alexandria Amāsis Åmen Amen-Rā Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Apis Arabic Aswân beautiful body Bubastis building built Cæsar Cairo called canal chamber church coffin and mummy columns comest Coptic Copts dead dedicated Dêr Ethiopia excavations famous Fayyûm Gebel Barkal Gizeh gods granite granite sarcophagus Greek Hail Hathor Heliopolis hemt Herodotus hieroglyphic honour Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis IVth Karnak king of Egypt land large number Limestone statue lived lord Mariette Maspero maṣṭaba Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Muḥammad mummy Museum Nile Nubia obelisks Osiris papyrus priests Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid Rameses Rameses II Red granite reign represented river Roman Room royal Sakkârah sarcophagus scarabs sculptures Serapeum Seti side sphinxes stele stone Suez Sulțân Suten tablets Tanis temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Vth dynasty walls west bank worshipped XIIth XVIIIth