The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 - 311 pages |
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Page 167
... columns , four in each ; the cavern is about 21 feet square , and the niche in the wall at the end was probably ... columns and the lower parts of some of the tombs are coloured red to resemble granite . The northern tomb is remarkable ...
... columns , four in each ; the cavern is about 21 feet square , and the niche in the wall at the end was probably ... columns and the lower parts of some of the tombs are coloured red to resemble granite . The northern tomb is remarkable ...
Page 168
... column to column , is vaulted . The columns in the southern tombs have lotus capitals , and are exceedingly graceful . The Tomb of Ameni belongs to the northern group of tombs ; he is not the head of the family which was buried at Beni ...
... column to column , is vaulted . The columns in the southern tombs have lotus capitals , and are exceedingly graceful . The Tomb of Ameni belongs to the northern group of tombs ; he is not the head of the family which was buried at Beni ...
Page 173
... columns and buildings inscribed with hieroglyphs were still visible . The Coptic name Manbalot , " place of the sack , " * is the original of its Arabic name to - day . ASYÛT . Asyût , 249 miles from Cairo , is the capital of the ...
... columns and buildings inscribed with hieroglyphs were still visible . The Coptic name Manbalot , " place of the sack , " * is the original of its Arabic name to - day . ASYÛT . Asyût , 249 miles from Cairo , is the capital of the ...
Page 188
... columns . The Temple of Denderah was nearly buried among the rubbish which centuries had accumulated round about it , and a whole village of wretched mud - huts actually stood upon the roof ! The excavation of this fine monument was ...
... columns . The Temple of Denderah was nearly buried among the rubbish which centuries had accumulated round about it , and a whole village of wretched mud - huts actually stood upon the roof ! The excavation of this fine monument was ...
Page 196
... columns . The Obelisk now standing there records the names , titles , etc. , of Rameses II . , and stands about 82 feet high ; it is one of the finest specimens of sculpture * See page 70 . known . Its fellow obelisk stands in the Place ...
... columns . The Obelisk now standing there records the names , titles , etc. , of Rameses II . , and stands about 82 feet high ; it is one of the finest specimens of sculpture * See page 70 . known . Its fellow obelisk stands in the Place ...
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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...