View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryOliver, 1844 - 460 pages |
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... described in various and opposite Colours - Used as Places of Exile - Their Number -The Great Oasis - Described by Sir A. Edmonstone - Ancient Buildings - Necropolis or Cemetery - Supposed Origin of such Land - Western Oasis - First ...
... described in various and opposite Colours - Used as Places of Exile - Their Number -The Great Oasis - Described by Sir A. Edmonstone - Ancient Buildings - Necropolis or Cemetery - Supposed Origin of such Land - Western Oasis - First ...
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... described by Diodorus - Judgment pronounced on the Dead - Civil Suits in Ancient Times - Account of Coptic Baptism - Levantines- Moslem Marriages ; Description by Mr Browne - Interior of a Harem Circassians - Ethiopian Women - Mode of ...
... described by Diodorus - Judgment pronounced on the Dead - Civil Suits in Ancient Times - Account of Coptic Baptism - Levantines- Moslem Marriages ; Description by Mr Browne - Interior of a Harem Circassians - Ethiopian Women - Mode of ...
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... described its grandeur as having already reached its consummation , and even as beginning to pass away ; while the philosophers and historians who crossed the Mediterranean in search of knowledge , were astonished at the proofs of an ...
... described its grandeur as having already reached its consummation , and even as beginning to pass away ; while the philosophers and historians who crossed the Mediterranean in search of knowledge , were astonished at the proofs of an ...
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... described by Pococke , with the caverns of Ellora , to be convinced that these sacred monuments of ancient days derived their origin from the same source . * A resemblance of a corresponding nature has been dis- covered in the religious ...
... described by Pococke , with the caverns of Ellora , to be convinced that these sacred monuments of ancient days derived their origin from the same source . * A resemblance of a corresponding nature has been dis- covered in the religious ...
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... described , that medical science , even before the days of Herodotus , must have been very carefully studied , if we may draw such a con- clusion from the fact that at the period when he wrote one physician was confined to one disease ...
... described , that medical science , even before the days of Herodotus , must have been very carefully studied , if we may draw such a con- clusion from the fact that at the period when he wrote one physician was confined to one disease ...
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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