The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... of the marsh ; " and a tradition still exists among the country people that this marsh was reclaimed by Joseph the son of Jacob . Whether it derived another A and equally ancient appellation of Ta - She , or CHAP PAGE THE ARSINOITE NOME,
... of the marsh ; " and a tradition still exists among the country people that this marsh was reclaimed by Joseph the son of Jacob . Whether it derived another A and equally ancient appellation of Ta - She , or CHAP PAGE THE ARSINOITE NOME,
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... Joseph , " which is , in fact , a branch of the Nile , diverted from that river at Siout , and which , after a tortuous course of upwards of two hundred miles along the base of the Libyan hills and parallel with the Nile , takes ...
... Joseph , " which is , in fact , a branch of the Nile , diverted from that river at Siout , and which , after a tortuous course of upwards of two hundred miles along the base of the Libyan hills and parallel with the Nile , takes ...
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... Joseph's time , to which I shall presently allude . It does not , however , follow that Joseph had nothing to do with perfecting the irrigation works con- nected with the river which is called after him . There is generally some ...
... Joseph's time , to which I shall presently allude . It does not , however , follow that Joseph had nothing to do with perfecting the irrigation works con- nected with the river which is called after him . There is generally some ...
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... Joseph's death , that they " multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty , and the land was filled with them . " Indeed , Leo Africanus says , in his descrip- tion of this locality , - " The ancient city was built by one of the Pharaohs on an ...
... Joseph's death , that they " multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty , and the land was filled with them . " Indeed , Leo Africanus says , in his descrip- tion of this locality , - " The ancient city was built by one of the Pharaohs on an ...
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... Joseph in the country . In those days Egypt was called " the Land of Khemi , " the " Ham " of the Bible , or " the Black Country " -a name derived from the blackness of the soil . Amenemhat seems to have had a great talent for ...
... Joseph in the country . In those days Egypt was called " the Land of Khemi , " the " Ham " of the Bible , or " the Black Country " -a name derived from the blackness of the soil . Amenemhat seems to have had a great talent for ...
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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