The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1890 - 311 pages |
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Page 124
... court measures 350 feet × 400 feet . The building contains 366 pillars - one row on the west side , three rows on the north and south sides , and six rows on the east side ; one of the pillars bears the name of Muḥammad . In the north ...
... court measures 350 feet × 400 feet . The building contains 366 pillars - one row on the west side , three rows on the north and south sides , and six rows on the east side ; one of the pillars bears the name of Muḥammad . In the north ...
Page 125
... court are compartments , each of which is reserved for the worshippers who belong to a certain country . The Lîwân of the mosque is huge , and its ceiling is supported upon 380 pillars of various kinds of stone ; it is here that the ...
... court are compartments , each of which is reserved for the worshippers who belong to a certain country . The Lîwân of the mosque is huge , and its ceiling is supported upon 380 pillars of various kinds of stone ; it is here that the ...
Page 126
... court are two fountains which were formerly used , one by the Egyptians , and one by the Turks . On the eastern side are still to be seen a few of the balls which were fired at the mosque by the army of Napoleon . The Mosque of Barkûk ...
... court are two fountains which were formerly used , one by the Egyptians , and one by the Turks . On the eastern side are still to be seen a few of the balls which were fired at the mosque by the army of Napoleon . The Mosque of Barkûk ...
Page 127
... court is square , with one row of pillars on each of its four sides , and in the centre is the fountain for the Turks ; the clock in the tower on the western side was presented to Muḥammad ' Ali by Louis Philippe . The Mosque of el ...
... court is square , with one row of pillars on each of its four sides , and in the centre is the fountain for the Turks ; the clock in the tower on the western side was presented to Muḥammad ' Ali by Louis Philippe . The Mosque of el ...
Page 157
... court , confidant of the king , etc .; he held also priestly rank as prophet , and was attached to the service of the pyramids of Abuşîr . He had sprung from a family of humble origin , but his abilities were so esteemed by one of the ...
... court , confidant of the king , etc .; he held also priestly rank as prophet , and was attached to the service of the pyramids of Abuşîr . He had sprung from a family of humble origin , but his abilities were so esteemed by one of the ...
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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...