View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryOliver, 1844 - 460 pages |
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... hundred gates and its vast population , was a subject of wonder and of the most exalted pane- gyric , an effect which we should at once attribute to the exaggeration of the poet , were it not that the re- mains which , even after the ...
... hundred gates and its vast population , was a subject of wonder and of the most exalted pane- gyric , an effect which we should at once attribute to the exaggeration of the poet , were it not that the re- mains which , even after the ...
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... hundred tons , separated from the adjoin- ing mountain and lifted up into the air . By whom and by what means these wonderful efforts have been accomplished is a mystery sunk too deep in the abyss of time ever to be revealed . To Greece ...
... hundred tons , separated from the adjoin- ing mountain and lifted up into the air . By whom and by what means these wonderful efforts have been accomplished is a mystery sunk too deep in the abyss of time ever to be revealed . To Greece ...
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... hundred years later , — the country was not covered with a less depth than fifteen or sixteen cubits . The additional elevation , therefore , was equal to seven cubits at the least , or a hundred and twenty - six inches , in the course ...
... hundred years later , — the country was not covered with a less depth than fifteen or sixteen cubits . The additional elevation , therefore , was equal to seven cubits at the least , or a hundred and twenty - six inches , in the course ...
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... hundred years before the Christian era . 3. The causeway which crosses the plain of Siout furnishes a similar ground for supposing that it must have been constructed twelve hundred years prior to the same epoch . 4. The pillar at ...
... hundred years before the Christian era . 3. The causeway which crosses the plain of Siout furnishes a similar ground for supposing that it must have been constructed twelve hundred years prior to the same epoch . 4. The pillar at ...
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... hundred years ago , a failure in the inundation was announced to the farmers of Egypt by a clerical envoy from the chief city of Ethiopia ; who , after having stated that the season in the hill country had been unusually dry , advised ...
... hundred years ago , a failure in the inundation was announced to the farmers of Egypt by a clerical envoy from the chief city of Ethiopia ; who , after having stated that the season in the hill country had been unusually dry , advised ...
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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