The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... ancient city- " Beloved of Tum " - to the right . The high mound on which the modern village of Meidûm is situated must contain the débris of one of the oldest cities in Egypt , and would probably well repay exca- vation , as its name ...
... ancient city- " Beloved of Tum " - to the right . The high mound on which the modern village of Meidûm is situated must contain the débris of one of the oldest cities in Egypt , and would probably well repay exca- vation , as its name ...
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... ancient city was built by one of the Pharaohs on an elevated spot , near a small canal from the Nile , at the time of the exodus of the Jews , after he had afflicted them with the drudgery of hewing stones , and other laborious ...
... ancient city was built by one of the Pharaohs on an elevated spot , near a small canal from the Nile , at the time of the exodus of the Jews , after he had afflicted them with the drudgery of hewing stones , and other laborious ...
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... ancient city of Crocodilopolis Arsinoë ; and this was a never- ending source of interest and amusement . The high mounds of debris , which cover an immense area of ground , were scarcely a mile from our abode , and consist of an ...
... ancient city of Crocodilopolis Arsinoë ; and this was a never- ending source of interest and amusement . The high mounds of debris , which cover an immense area of ground , were scarcely a mile from our abode , and consist of an ...
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... ancient city of Arsinoë , is the Pyramid of Howara , distant about five miles as the crow flies from the modern town of Medinet el Fayoum , but considerably farther by the road , —if the narrow paths which traverse the fields can be ...
... ancient city of Arsinoë , is the Pyramid of Howara , distant about five miles as the crow flies from the modern town of Medinet el Fayoum , but considerably farther by the road , —if the narrow paths which traverse the fields can be ...
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... ancient city of some extent . In- deed there is every reason to suppose that in former times the edge of this plateau overlook- ing the lake was crowned with a series of towns inhabited by a large population . In point of position THE ...
... ancient city of some extent . In- deed there is every reason to suppose that in former times the edge of this plateau overlook- ing the lake was crowned with a series of towns inhabited by a large population . In point of position THE ...
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Amenemhat Amenemhat III ancient city ancient Egyptian Arab Arsinoë Arsinoite Nome Bahr Youssef bank Beni Hassan Birket el Kurûn Blackwood's Magazine boat built Cairo canal cave chambers Church cliff cloth columns Coptic Copts Crocodilopolis Crown 8vo crude brick Daira Sanieh date-trees desert dynasty Edinburgh Egypt Engravings excavations Fayoum Fcap feet formed fragments French morocco gardens gorge Greek Haybee Herodotus hieroglyphics History Hyksos Illahoon Illustrations inscription interesting irrigation Isis J. G. Lockhart JOHN Joseph Khedive king Labyrinth Lake Moris land Lepsius LL.D Medinet el Fayoum ment miles Minieh modern monuments Moses mounds mummies Nile Nome numerous OLIPHANT picturesque Pinedjem Portrait post 8vo priest Professor province Pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign remains river rock round ruins sarcophagi Scotland Second Edition sheikh side spot stone Strabo sugar-factory temple Third Edition tion tombs town University of Edinburgh village vols walls worship
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