View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryOliver, 1844 - 460 pages |
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... kings of Egypt will increase hereafter into a much greater degree of brightness . It was not the least plea- sant part of our task to trace the steps of that arduous investigation which finally led to the knowledge of Pho- netic ...
... kings of Egypt will increase hereafter into a much greater degree of brightness . It was not the least plea- sant part of our task to trace the steps of that arduous investigation which finally led to the knowledge of Pho- netic ...
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... King Thamus - Works of Thoth or Hermes — Quo- tation of Clemens Alexandrinus - Greeks learned History from Egypt The Numerical System of the ancient Egyptians- The Arabians derived their Arithmetical Signs from Egyp- tians , 139 CHAPTER ...
... King Thamus - Works of Thoth or Hermes — Quo- tation of Clemens Alexandrinus - Greeks learned History from Egypt The Numerical System of the ancient Egyptians- The Arabians derived their Arithmetical Signs from Egyp- tians , 139 CHAPTER ...
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... kings were erected , with the facts which meet the view of the traveller in our own days , amid the desolations of Karnac and the ruins of Luxor . The land of the Pharaohs , in truth , was an old coun- try in the infant age of Greece ...
... kings were erected , with the facts which meet the view of the traveller in our own days , amid the desolations of Karnac and the ruins of Luxor . The land of the Pharaohs , in truth , was an old coun- try in the infant age of Greece ...
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... kings , like that of the Babylonians and Assyrians , must have been lost , had the architectural monuments of the former people not been constructed of more imperishable substances than were to be found in the alluvial plains of ...
... kings , like that of the Babylonians and Assyrians , must have been lost , had the architectural monuments of the former people not been constructed of more imperishable substances than were to be found in the alluvial plains of ...
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... kings of Egypt . Although the valley of Fayoum supplied a natural basin for this grand reservoir , yet as the canal which connected it with the river , together with the numerous dams necessary to regulate the current during the rise ...
... kings of Egypt . Although the valley of Fayoum supplied a natural basin for this grand reservoir , yet as the canal which connected it with the river , together with the numerous dams necessary to regulate the current during the rise ...
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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