Land of Khemi: Up & Down the Middle NileBlackwood, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... bricks , rags , fibre , and dust . The highest mound is fifty feet above the level of the plain , and its summit commands a panoramic view of the whole of the province . It is impossible to describe the rich and glowing beauty of the ...
... bricks , rags , fibre , and dust . The highest mound is fifty feet above the level of the plain , and its summit commands a panoramic view of the whole of the province . It is impossible to describe the rich and glowing beauty of the ...
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... In places we see cropping out the remains of old brick walls , still stand- ing wedged in the mound ; here and there they are undermined by the labours of the peasants , who come and scoop out the dust of ages which 20 THE LAND OF KHEMI .
... In places we see cropping out the remains of old brick walls , still stand- ing wedged in the mound ; here and there they are undermined by the labours of the peasants , who come and scoop out the dust of ages which 20 THE LAND OF KHEMI .
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... bricks , twenty inches long by nine wide , which he was picking out of a wall just showing through the mound . In one part of these ruins there are numbers of chambers , built of crude brick , in a very fair state of preservation ; and ...
... bricks , twenty inches long by nine wide , which he was picking out of a wall just showing through the mound . In one part of these ruins there are numbers of chambers , built of crude brick , in a very fair state of preservation ; and ...
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... brick walls which crop out from the base of these mounds , and over which prob- ably a later town was built , are ... brick walls frequently had the additional security of a layer of reeds or bricks , placed at intervals to act as ...
... brick walls which crop out from the base of these mounds , and over which prob- ably a later town was built , are ... brick walls frequently had the additional security of a layer of reeds or bricks , placed at intervals to act as ...
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Up & Down the Middle Nile Laurence Oliphant. or bricks , placed at intervals to act as binders . The courses of bricks were also disposed occa- sionally in horizontal curves , or a succession of concave and convex lines , throughout the ...
Up & Down the Middle Nile Laurence Oliphant. or bricks , placed at intervals to act as binders . The courses of bricks were also disposed occa- sionally in horizontal curves , or a succession of concave and convex lines , throughout 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 Feap 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 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-factory temple Third Edition tion tombs town University of Edinburgh village vols walls worship
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