The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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Up and Down the Middle Nile Laurence Oliphant. PREFACE . My first visit to Egypt took place just forty years ago , and I have a very vivid recollec- tion of its aspect in those days , and of the strong impression which the contrasts of ...
Up and Down the Middle Nile Laurence Oliphant. PREFACE . My first visit to Egypt took place just forty years ago , and I have a very vivid recollec- tion of its aspect in those days , and of the strong impression which the contrasts of ...
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... Egypt , had not the kindness of the authorities enabled me to spend some months in the interior under conditions particularly favourable for an obser- vation of the present state of the people , and which , moreover , tempted me , in ...
... Egypt , had not the kindness of the authorities enabled me to spend some months in the interior under conditions particularly favourable for an obser- vation of the present state of the people , and which , moreover , tempted me , in ...
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... Egypt . In conclusion , I would express my sense of obligation and thanks to his Highness the Khedive , his Excellency Riaz Pasha , and Sir Edward Malet , H.B. Agent and Consul- General , for the hospitality with which we were treated ...
... Egypt . In conclusion , I would express my sense of obligation and thanks to his Highness the Khedive , his Excellency Riaz Pasha , and Sir Edward Malet , H.B. Agent and Consul- General , for the hospitality with which we were treated ...
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... ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE EXCAVATIONS OF THE LABYRINTH , HAWARA , Frontispiece PROSTRATE OBELISK NEAR EDGIB , IN THE FAYOUM , 98 FELLAHAH GIRL , MIDDLE Egypt , TOMBS OF BENI HASSAN , 144 200 THE LAND OF KHEMI . CHAPTER I. THE ARSINOITE NOME.
... ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE EXCAVATIONS OF THE LABYRINTH , HAWARA , Frontispiece PROSTRATE OBELISK NEAR EDGIB , IN THE FAYOUM , 98 FELLAHAH GIRL , MIDDLE Egypt , TOMBS OF BENI HASSAN , 144 200 THE LAND OF KHEMI . CHAPTER I. THE ARSINOITE NOME.
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... Egypt for the luxuriance of its vegetation and the variety of its products . Known in modern days as the Fayoum , it was called by the Greeks the Arsinoite Nome , and by the early Egyptians Phiom , or " " the district of the marsh ...
... Egypt for the luxuriance of its vegetation and the variety of its products . Known in modern days as the Fayoum , it was called by the Greeks the Arsinoite Nome , and by the early Egyptians Phiom , or " " the district of the marsh ...
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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 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 Maps Medinet el Fayoum ment miles Minieh modern monuments Moses mounds mummies Nile Nome numerous OLIPHANT picturesque Pinedjem Poems 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-factories temple Third Edition tion tombs town University of Edinburgh village vols walls worship