The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... Haram aş- Şayyâdîn , or " Hunters ' Pyramid . " It was opened by Mariette in 1880. His mummy is preserved in Cairo . The official Her - khuf began his career in this reign . B.C. 3166. Nefer - ka - Rā , Pepi II HISTORICAL SUMMARY . 31.
... Haram aş- Şayyâdîn , or " Hunters ' Pyramid . " It was opened by Mariette in 1880. His mummy is preserved in Cairo . The official Her - khuf began his career in this reign . B.C. 3166. Nefer - ka - Rā , Pepi II HISTORICAL SUMMARY . 31.
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... Cairo . 2400. Amenemhāt II . Khnemu - hetep , son of Nehera , whose tomb is at Beni - hasân , lived during the reign of this king . 2366. Usertsen II . He built a pyramid at Illahûn . In his reign a party of 37 Aamu , or Semites from ...
... Cairo . 2400. Amenemhāt II . Khnemu - hetep , son of Nehera , whose tomb is at Beni - hasân , lived during the reign of this king . 2366. Usertsen II . He built a pyramid at Illahûn . In his reign a party of 37 Aamu , or Semites from ...
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Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge. to conquer . B.C. the Museum in Cairo . The text is a speech of 1550. the god Amen - Rã addressed to Thothmes . After describing the glory and might which he has attached to his name , he goes on to ...
Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge. to conquer . B.C. the Museum in Cairo . The text is a speech of 1550. the god Amen - Rã addressed to Thothmes . After describing the glory and might which he has attached to his name , he goes on to ...
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... Cairo , and built the mosque Al - Azhar . Mu'izz died in 975 . ' 975. Al - ' Aziz . Great peace and prosperity in Egypt . 996. Al - Hâkim was a social and religious madman . He founded a hall of science , and established an ob ...
... Cairo , and built the mosque Al - Azhar . Mu'izz died in 975 . ' 975. Al - ' Aziz . Great peace and prosperity in Egypt . 996. Al - Hâkim was a social and religious madman . He founded a hall of science , and established an ob ...
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... Cairo , with 60,000 men , but is beaten , and about 15,000 of his men are killed . This fight is commonly called the Battle of the Pyramids . A few days later Nelson destroyed the French fleet in Abukir Bay . 1799. Destruction of the ...
... Cairo , with 60,000 men , but is beaten , and about 15,000 of his men are killed . This fight is commonly called the Battle of the Pyramids . A few days later Nelson destroyed the French fleet in Abukir Bay . 1799. Destruction of the ...
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Abû Abydos Alexandria Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Atbara Barrage Blue Nile body British building built Cairo called canal capital Cataract chamber chapel Christians church columns Coptic Copts corvée Dêr Dervishes desert east excavations famous feet Gebel Barkal gods Government granite Greek Ḥalfa Hathor hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak Khalifa Khartûm king Lake land large number Luxor Mariette Memphis Meroë metres miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum natives Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâshâ period Philæ pillars priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid railway Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman royal ruins sarcophagus Sawâkin scenes Seti shrine side statue stele stone Sûdân Suez suten temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Wâdî walls west bank White Nile worship XIIth XVIIIth dynasty
Popular passages
Page 412 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 370 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 117 - His Britannic Majesty's Government declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Egypt. The Government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fixed for the British occupation or in any other manner...
Page 339 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 379 - 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 destroyed.
Page 13 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 411 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Page 13 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 13 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.