The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... or Betchau , in whose reign an earthquake swallowed up many people at In his reign the sign STA was first Bubastis . * Or ( HD ) or , BESH . B.C. 4133 . perhaps used to indicate the union of 27 Dynastic Period- Ancient Empire.
... or Betchau , in whose reign an earthquake swallowed up many people at In his reign the sign STA was first Bubastis . * Or ( HD ) or , BESH . B.C. 4133 . perhaps used to indicate the union of 27 Dynastic Period- Ancient Empire.
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... ancient Thebes . There yet remained on the towering piles Egyptian inscriptions , with a com- plete account of the city's past grandeur . One of the aged priests , who was desired to interpret the language of his country , related how ...
... ancient Thebes . There yet remained on the towering piles Egyptian inscriptions , with a com- plete account of the city's past grandeur . One of the aged priests , who was desired to interpret the language of his country , related how ...
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... ancient Egyptians the crescent actually occurs in the name of Aah - mes , ie . , " Child of the Moon , " the first king of the XVIIIth dynasty , about B.C. 1700 , and the five - rayed star ☆ was a well - known symbol for neter " god ...
... ancient Egyptians the crescent actually occurs in the name of Aah - mes , ie . , " Child of the Moon , " the first king of the XVIIIth dynasty , about B.C. 1700 , and the five - rayed star ☆ was a well - known symbol for neter " god ...
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Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge. THE COUNTRY OF EGYPT . Geology . In ancient days Egypt proper terminated at Aswân ( Syene ) , but now the term Egypt includes that portion of the Nile valley which lies between the Mediter- ranean and Wâdî ...
Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge. THE COUNTRY OF EGYPT . Geology . In ancient days Egypt proper terminated at Aswân ( Syene ) , but now the term Egypt includes that portion of the Nile valley which lies between the Mediter- ranean and Wâdî ...
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... ancient days the population of Egypt proper is said to have been from seven and a half to nine millions ; at the present time ( 1906 ) it is probably well over ten millions . The population of the provinces south of Egypt , which ...
... ancient days the population of Egypt proper is said to have been from seven and a half to nine millions ; at the present time ( 1906 ) it is probably well over ten millions . The population of the provinces south of Egypt , which ...
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Common terms and phrases
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.