The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... observe the depression which was once filled by the waters of Lake Mœris , and a portion of which is now a sandy desert ; its southern extremity is marked by the Pyramid of Illahoon , also clearly visible . A little fur- ther on we ...
... observe the depression which was once filled by the waters of Lake Mœris , and a portion of which is now a sandy desert ; its southern extremity is marked by the Pyramid of Illahoon , also clearly visible . A little fur- ther on we ...
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... observe a protruding skull , with short curly hair still clinging to it . We make an Arab manure - sifter exhume the mor- tal remains , and find clinging to the legs the wrappages of coarse linen , in which the whole body was once ...
... observe a protruding skull , with short curly hair still clinging to it . We make an Arab manure - sifter exhume the mor- tal remains , and find clinging to the legs the wrappages of coarse linen , in which the whole body was once ...
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... observe evidences of an- tiquity ; and these were of especial interest when we reached the ten - arched bridge of Kanatir el Agami . This spans a dry culti- vated wady , in which is a grove of date - trees ; but in ancient times it was ...
... observe evidences of an- tiquity ; and these were of especial interest when we reached the ten - arched bridge of Kanatir el Agami . This spans a dry culti- vated wady , in which is a grove of date - trees ; but in ancient times it was ...
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... observe a vast plain of stone slabs . Descending again , and looking into the halls , we may observe the whole series borne by twenty - seven mono- lithic columns : the walls also are constructed E of stone of similar size . At the end ...
... observe a vast plain of stone slabs . Descending again , and looking into the halls , we may observe the whole series borne by twenty - seven mono- lithic columns : the walls also are constructed E of stone of similar size . At the end ...
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... observed five human skulls , and there were numerous bones to which the dried flesh still adhered under the wrappings of mummy - cloth . Altogether , the vestiges of these ruins conveyed as much the idea of a necropolis as of an ...
... observed five human skulls , and there were numerous bones to which the dried flesh still adhered under the wrappings of mummy - cloth . Altogether , the vestiges of these ruins conveyed as much the idea of a necropolis as of an ...
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