View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryOliver, 1844 - 460 pages |
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... Turks , Greeks , Jews , and Syrians - Characteristics- Cairo - Houses - Citadel - Joseph's Well , Joseph's Hall - Necro- polis - Tombs - Mosques - Palace at Shoubra - Splendid Pavil- ion - Comparison of Egypt before and under the ...
... Turks , Greeks , Jews , and Syrians - Characteristics- Cairo - Houses - Citadel - Joseph's Well , Joseph's Hall - Necro- polis - Tombs - Mosques - Palace at Shoubra - Splendid Pavil- ion - Comparison of Egypt before and under the ...
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... Turks ; among Europeans - Mosques - Mohammed Ali and Burckhardt - Language of Copts - Religion - Festival of Ca- lige Virgin offered to the Nile ; a similar Custom in India- Female Mourners in Egypt - Dress of Ladies - Amusements of ...
... Turks ; among Europeans - Mosques - Mohammed Ali and Burckhardt - Language of Copts - Religion - Festival of Ca- lige Virgin offered to the Nile ; a similar Custom in India- Female Mourners in Egypt - Dress of Ladies - Amusements of ...
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... Turks samiel , and which have so often proved fatal to whole caravans , and even to large armies . When they continue longer than three days their effects become quite insupportable , especially to persons of a full habit of body . It ...
... Turks samiel , and which have so often proved fatal to whole caravans , and even to large armies . When they continue longer than three days their effects become quite insupportable , especially to persons of a full habit of body . It ...
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... Turkish and Mamlouk domination , their positions have been partially changed ; and thus , splendid cities , celebrated in history , have been buried in their own ruins , and the traveller searches for them in vain GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT . 47.
... Turkish and Mamlouk domination , their positions have been partially changed ; and thus , splendid cities , celebrated in history , have been buried in their own ruins , and the traveller searches for them in vain GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT . 47.
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... Turkish government . Various estimates and measurements were made by the engineers under Bonaparte , who calculated that the expense of once more connecting the Nile and the Red Sea , by means of a regular canal , would not exceed ...
... Turkish government . Various estimates and measurements were made by the engineers under Bonaparte , who calculated that the expense of once more connecting the Nile and the Red Sea , by means of a regular canal , would not exceed ...
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Alexandria ancient Egypt ancient Egyptians antiquity appears Arabian Arabs architecture arms army authority Belzoni beys Bitter Lakes building Cairo called canal capital celebrated chafing-dish chamber character colour columns Copts covered Dendera Denon described desert Diodorus dynasty edifice Egyp entrance erected Europe European eyes farther feet figures French granite Greek ground height Herodotus hieroglyphs hundred Ibrahim inches inhabitants inscriptions inundation king l'Egypte labour lake land latter length Luxor magnificence Mamlouks Manetho mentioned ments miles modern Mohammed monuments native Nile Nubia Oasis object observed pasha passage period person pillars possession present priests principal Psammeticus Ptolemy pyramids reader Red Sea regard reign remains remarkable resemblance river rock Roman ruins sacred Saladin sand says sculptures side similar statue stone Strabo sultan Syria temple Thebes thousand tion tomb town traveller troops Turks Upper Egypt valley viceroy walls whole