The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... scenic feature un- known in any other part of Egypt . Where these dams exist there are often little lakes , embowered in palm - groves and gardens , thus giving the Fayoum a pre - eminence , so far THE ARSINOITE NOME . 13.
... scenic feature un- known in any other part of Egypt . Where these dams exist there are often little lakes , embowered in palm - groves and gardens , thus giving the Fayoum a pre - eminence , so far THE ARSINOITE NOME . 13.
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... exist , seems an over - estimate . The present population is probably about 150,000 souls , of whom 9000 live in the chief town . This , after establishing ourselves in the quarters which had been kindly provided for us , we lost no ...
... exist , seems an over - estimate . The present population is probably about 150,000 souls , of whom 9000 live in the chief town . This , after establishing ourselves in the quarters which had been kindly provided for us , we lost no ...
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... exist , I never saw more than two fastened to the river - bank at one time . " The brick quays along which they are moored as far as the eye can reach , " exist entirely in the writer's imag- ination ; and it is evident , as the canal ...
... exist , I never saw more than two fastened to the river - bank at one time . " The brick quays along which they are moored as far as the eye can reach , " exist entirely in the writer's imag- ination ; and it is evident , as the canal ...
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... exist on the north and west sides , must have been about thirty miles long , with an average breadth of one hundred and fifty feet - a work on a scale which would have appalled engineers not accustomed to build pyramids . Linant Bey ...
... exist on the north and west sides , must have been about thirty miles long , with an average breadth of one hundred and fifty feet - a work on a scale which would have appalled engineers not accustomed to build pyramids . Linant Bey ...
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... exist , the nature of which I was anxious to try and verify , as it is still a matter of dispute . Linant considers them the remains of the pyramids upon which were the statues of King Moeris and his consort , which Herod- otus ...
... exist , the nature of which I was anxious to try and verify , as it is still a matter of dispute . Linant considers them the remains of the pyramids upon which were the statues of King Moeris and his consort , which Herod- otus ...
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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