View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryHarper & Brothers, 1846 - 348 pages |
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... kings of Egypt will increase hereafter into a much greater degree of brightness . It was not the least pleasant part of our task to trace the steps of that arduous investigation which finally led to the knowledge of Phonetic ...
... kings of Egypt will increase hereafter into a much greater degree of brightness . It was not the least pleasant part of our task to trace the steps of that arduous investigation which finally led to the knowledge of Phonetic ...
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... King Thamus - Works of Thoth or Hermes - Quotation of Clemens Alexandrinus - Greeks learned History from Egypt - The Numerical System of the Ancient Egyptians - The Arabians derived their Arithmetical Signs from Egyptians .. .. Page 129 ...
... King Thamus - Works of Thoth or Hermes - Quotation of Clemens Alexandrinus - Greeks learned History from Egypt - The Numerical System of the Ancient Egyptians - The Arabians derived their Arithmetical Signs from Egyptians .. .. Page 129 ...
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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 country 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 country 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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... the origin of the term by which Egypt is known among the moderns . It is asserted , by the Greeks , that a celebrated king of this name bequeathed it to his dominions , which had formerly passed 26 PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL.
... the origin of the term by which Egypt is known among the moderns . It is asserted , by the Greeks , that a celebrated king of this name bequeathed it to his dominions , which had formerly passed 26 PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL.
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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