The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 - 311 pages |
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Page 34
... Arabs , and Turks , have had no permanent effect either on their physical or mental characteristics . The Egyptian has seen the civilizations of all these nations rise up , progress flourish , decay , and pass away ; he has been ...
... Arabs , and Turks , have had no permanent effect either on their physical or mental characteristics . The Egyptian has seen the civilizations of all these nations rise up , progress flourish , decay , and pass away ; he has been ...
Page 37
... Arabic form of the Coptic form of the Greek name for Egyptian , AiquπTIOS ; it may be mentioned , in passing , that Ayuòos , Egypt , is thought by some to be derived from an ancient Egyptian name for Memphis , Het - ka - Ptaḥ , " The ...
... Arabic form of the Coptic form of the Greek name for Egyptian , AiquπTIOS ; it may be mentioned , in passing , that Ayuòos , Egypt , is thought by some to be derived from an ancient Egyptian name for Memphis , Het - ka - Ptaḥ , " The ...
Page 39
... Arabic , and though copies of parts of the Bible are found in churches and private houses , they are usually accompanied by an Arabic version of the Coptic text , which is more usually read than the Coptic . The Bible , in all or part ...
... Arabic , and though copies of parts of the Bible are found in churches and private houses , they are usually accompanied by an Arabic version of the Coptic text , which is more usually read than the Coptic . The Bible , in all or part ...
Page 40
... Arabic- speaking and Muhammedan tribes , who live in the deserts which lie on each side of the Nile ; they amount in number to about 250,000 . The Bisharîn , Hadendoa , and Ababdeh tribes , who speak a language ( called ' to bedyhawîyeh ...
... Arabic- speaking and Muhammedan tribes , who live in the deserts which lie on each side of the Nile ; they amount in number to about 250,000 . The Bisharîn , Hadendoa , and Ababdeh tribes , who speak a language ( called ' to bedyhawîyeh ...
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... Arabic well . The Nubians found in Egypt are generally doorkeepers and domestic servants , who can usually be depended upon for their honesty and obedience . The Negroes form a large part of the non - THE MODERN EGYPTIANS . 41.
... Arabic well . The Nubians found in Egypt are generally doorkeepers and domestic servants , who can usually be depended upon for their honesty and obedience . The Negroes form a large part of the non - THE MODERN EGYPTIANS . 41.
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Abydos Alexandria Åmen Åmen-Rā Amenemḥāt Amenophis Amenophis III ancient days ancient Egyptian Apis Arabic Aswân beautiful building built Cairo called Cambyses canal cataract century chamber Chephren church coffin and mummy columns Coptic Copts crocodile dedicated Denderah Dêr east bank Egyptian Ethiopians excavations famous feet high Girgeh Gizeh gods granite Greek Harmachis Hathor Heliopolis hemt Herodotus hewn hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak king of Egypt land large number lived lord Manetho Mariette maṣṭaba Memphis miles from Cairo monuments Mosque Muḥammad mummy Museum neter Nile Nilometer Nubia obelisks Osiris papyrus pillars priests Ptaḥ Ptolemy Ptolemy II pylon pyramid Rameses II reign represented river Roman royal Sakkârah sarcophagus scenes sculptures Serapeum Seti side sphinxes stele stone stood Strabo Suez Sulțân Suten t'etta Thebes thee Thothmes tombs town Unȧs Upper Egypt Usertsen walls west bank worshipped XIIth dynasty XVIIIth
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Page 35 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Page 81 - Hail to thee, maker of all beings, Lord of law, father of the gods ; maker of men, creator of beasts ; Lord of grains, making food for the beast of the field The One alone without a second King alone, single among the gods ; of many names, unknown is their number.
Page 90 - Isis set out once more in search of the scattered members of her husband's body, using a boat made of the papyrus rush in order the more easily to pass through the lower and fenny parts of the country.
Page 100 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved • if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be de stroyed.
Page 164 - The rooms above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal inspection. But the underground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians who have charge of the building would, on no account, show me them, saying, that there were the sepulchres of the kings who originally built this labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have...
Page 138 - ... ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile.
Page 193 - ... there was no city under the sun so ' adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold, silver, and ' ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks, cut out of one entire 'stone.
Page vii - It is for this reason that no attempt has been made to run logs in the river.
Page 139 - Cheops reached such a degree of infamy, that being in want of money, he prostituted his own daughter in a brothel, and ordered her to extort, they did not say how much ; but she exacted a certain sum of money, privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone towards the edifice she designed : of these stones they said the pyramid was built that stands in the middle of the three, before the great...
Page 138 - And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil lasted ten years on the road which they constructed...