 | Albert Bigelow Paine - 1911 - 454 pages
...marks and signs of which," he says, "* 'are visible to this day." Of its glory in general he adds: "There was no city under the sun so adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold and silver and ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks cut out of entire stone." Still further... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
..." ' Where through a hundred gates with marble arch " ' To battle twenty thousand chariots march.' " Although there are some that say it had not a hundred...for beauty and ' greatness to be admired, the most antient of which was in circuit ' thirteen furlongs (about one and a half miles), and five and forty... | |
 | Christopher Dawson - 1928 - 482 pages
...Diodorus in 57 BC describes how the kings of Egypt devoted themselves to the adornment of the city. " So that there was no city under the sun so adorned with...and ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks, each cut out of one entire stone. Thus the age of Amenophis III was of exceptional importance for the... | |
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... 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. 
