The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... can be no doubt that in ancient days the cultivable area of the oasis was much greater than it is at present , as the indications of a town and irrigation works near the ruins of Kasr Kha- roon , 12 THE LAND OF KHEMI .
... can be no doubt that in ancient days the cultivable area of the oasis was much greater than it is at present , as the indications of a town and irrigation works near the ruins of Kasr Kha- roon , 12 THE LAND OF KHEMI .
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Up and Down the Middle Nile Laurence Oliphant. irrigation works near the ruins of Kasr Kha- roon , at the south - western extremity of the Birket el Kurûn , where it is now a desert , abundantly testify . At the present day it measures ...
Up and Down the Middle Nile Laurence Oliphant. irrigation works near the ruins of Kasr Kha- roon , at the south - western extremity of the Birket el Kurûn , where it is now a desert , abundantly testify . At the present day it measures ...
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... ruins of the ancient city of Crocodilopolis Arsinoë ; and this was a never- ending source of interest and amusement . The high mounds of débris , which cover an immense area of ground , were scarcely a mile from our abode , and consist ...
... ruins of the ancient city of Crocodilopolis Arsinoë ; and this was a never- ending source of interest and amusement . The high mounds of débris , which cover an immense area of ground , were scarcely a mile from our abode , and consist ...
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... ruins , we picked up ourselves seven coins , of which four were of the reigns of Vespasian , Diocletian , Constantine , and Trajan . One was a curious Cufic coin ; and we procured about a dozen more from the Arabs , most of which were ...
... ruins , we picked up ourselves seven coins , of which four were of the reigns of Vespasian , Diocletian , Constantine , and Trajan . One was a curious Cufic coin ; and we procured about a dozen more from the Arabs , most of which were ...
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... ruins , it would seem as though the city had been subjected at some time to the action of fire ; and large fragments of blue glass were to be found which had evidently undergone a process of fusing . These , however , may have been the ...
... ruins , it would seem as though the city had been subjected at some time to the action of fire ; and large fragments of blue glass were to be found which had evidently undergone a process of fusing . These , however , may have been the ...
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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