View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryHarper & Brothers, 1846 - 348 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... described its grandeur as having already reached its con- summation , 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 con- summation , 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 conclusion 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 conclusion 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 army authority banks Belzoni beys body building Cairo called capital celebrated chamber character colour columns Copts covered Dendera Denon described desert Diodorus discovered dynasty east edifice erected Europe European eyes feet figures French granite Greeks ground height Herodotus hieroglyphics history of Egypt hundred inches inhabitants inscription inundation kings labour Lake land length Lower Egypt Luxor magnificence Mamlouks Manetho Memphis mentioned ments miles modern Mohammed monuments native Nile Nubia Oasis object observed occupied ornamented pasha passage period portico possession present priests Ptolemy Pyramid reader Red Sea regard reign remains remarkable resemblance river rock Roman ruins sacred Saladin sand sculptures Sesostris side similar Sphinx stone Strabo success Syria temple Thebes thousand throne tion tomb town traveller Turks Upper Egypt valley viceroy walls whole