The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... cliff of projecting débris , a hand- broom made of date - fibre , and a key of curious shape , heavily oxidised . From the great quan- tities of slag lying about in parts of these ruins , it would seem as though the city had been ...
... cliff of projecting débris , a hand- broom made of date - fibre , and a key of curious shape , heavily oxidised . From the great quan- tities of slag lying about in parts of these ruins , it would seem as though the city had been ...
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... cliff of débris , we come upon all the evidences of Egyptian structure , with bones and mummy - cloth more abundant , and thicker layers of straw or fibre . It was from the bottom of the cliff that I 24 THE LAND OF KHEMI .
... cliff of débris , we come upon all the evidences of Egyptian structure , with bones and mummy - cloth more abundant , and thicker layers of straw or fibre . It was from the bottom of the cliff that I 24 THE LAND OF KHEMI .
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... cliff that I pulled out a fragment , at least a foot square , of what must have been an ancient Egyptian fishing- net . The crude brick walls which crop out from the base of these mounds , and over which prob- ably a later town was ...
... cliff that I pulled out a fragment , at least a foot square , of what must have been an ancient Egyptian fishing- net . The crude brick walls which crop out from the base of these mounds , and over which prob- ably a later town was ...
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... cliffs which form their banks , form a striking feature in the scenery of the Fayoum . So long as the Bahr Youssef remains in the valley of the Nile , skirting the base of the Libyan hills , it inundates the country like its parent ...
... cliffs which form their banks , form a striking feature in the scenery of the Fayoum . So long as the Bahr Youssef remains in the valley of the Nile , skirting the base of the Libyan hills , it inundates the country like its parent ...
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... cliff , and the ruined walls of which could be distinguished from Aboukser with a spy - glass . There are no villages worthy the name on the margin of the lake . The fishing population are mostly Bedouin Arabs , who live in tents or ...
... cliff , and the ruined walls of which could be distinguished from Aboukser with a spy - glass . There are no villages worthy the name on the margin of the lake . The fishing population are mostly Bedouin Arabs , who live in tents or ...
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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