The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... chamber , hermetically sealed from the outward air , for 5600 years , when the garish light of nineteenth - century civilisation was let in upon them . They represent the Prince Raho - tep , son of King Seneferoo of the third dynasty ...
... chamber , hermetically sealed from the outward air , for 5600 years , when the garish light of nineteenth - century civilisation was let in upon them . They represent the Prince Raho - tep , son of King Seneferoo of the third dynasty ...
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... chambers , and in which the pot- tery and bones are embedded . This they sift and carry off to put upon their fields as manure . It is a fine impalpable powder , which gets into one's nose and eyes , and penetrates into the innermost ...
... chambers , and in which the pot- tery and bones are embedded . This they sift and carry off to put upon their fields as manure . It is a fine impalpable powder , which gets into one's nose and eyes , and penetrates into the innermost ...
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... chambers , built of crude brick , in a very fair state of preservation ; and it was in these that I found most of the beads and coins . Besides bricks and pottery , one now and then stumbles across a small piece of marble carving , or ...
... chambers , built of crude brick , in a very fair state of preservation ; and it was in these that I found most of the beads and coins . Besides bricks and pottery , one now and then stumbles across a small piece of marble carving , or ...
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... no moral doubt as to their identity . The name given by Josephus is Mautaretis ; that inscribed in the chamber of Abydos is Maut - Art , or the great mother- thus furnishing a curious confirmation of the truth of the 36 THE LAND OF KHEMI .
... no moral doubt as to their identity . The name given by Josephus is Mautaretis ; that inscribed in the chamber of Abydos is Maut - Art , or the great mother- thus furnishing a curious confirmation of the truth of the 36 THE LAND OF KHEMI .
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... chambers that the buildings of the Labyrinth contain are all double , one underground and the other built above it . They number 3000 , 1500 in each level . We traversed those that are above ground , and we speak of what we have seen ...
... chambers that the buildings of the Labyrinth contain are all double , one underground and the other built above it . They number 3000 , 1500 in each level . We traversed those that are above ground , and we speak of what we have seen ...
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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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