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Page 71
Here is the suburb of Ghizeh , the location of a botanical garden and a most
admirable zoo . Here also begins the road to the great pyramids , of which more
will be said later . As for the zoo , it cannot be over - praised and every one goes
to ...
Here is the suburb of Ghizeh , the location of a botanical garden and a most
admirable zoo . Here also begins the road to the great pyramids , of which more
will be said later . As for the zoo , it cannot be over - praised and every one goes
to ...
Page 82
Later we shall have occasion to come to closer grips with the desert and to
invade the sacred precints of the pyramid tombs . For the present it is high time to
seek the donkeys at the foot of the shelving path , regain the dust and tumult of
the ...
Later we shall have occasion to come to closer grips with the desert and to
invade the sacred precints of the pyramid tombs . For the present it is high time to
seek the donkeys at the foot of the shelving path , regain the dust and tumult of
the ...
Page 97
... of the museum with the Shekh el Beled , — the diorite image of Khephrên ,
builder of the Second Pyramid . Strictly , I suppose , this is not the same sort of ka
statue , but it was found in a temple of the king , of which more will be said later ...
... of the museum with the Shekh el Beled , — the diorite image of Khephrên ,
builder of the Second Pyramid . Strictly , I suppose , this is not the same sort of ka
statue , but it was found in a temple of the king , of which more will be said later ...
Page 99
Of all early tombs the mastaba type is most interesting , partly because of the
rapid development of tomb architecture during its prevalence , and partly
because of the relation which it bears to the somewhat later pyramid . In its best
estate , the ...
Of all early tombs the mastaba type is most interesting , partly because of the
rapid development of tomb architecture during its prevalence , and partly
because of the relation which it bears to the somewhat later pyramid . In its best
estate , the ...
Page 102
Still another form was developed later in the time of Thebes , the most splendid
epoch of older Egypt , under the Amenhôteps and their later successors , the
Ramessids . This was the time when absolute secrecy had come to be even more
...
Still another form was developed later in the time of Thebes , the most splendid
epoch of older Egypt , under the Amenhôteps and their later successors , the
Ramessids . This was the time when absolute secrecy had come to be even more
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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