The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Volume 1George Bell and sons, 1885 - 842 pages |
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... received from grammarians and critics , whatever in history we have gained from chronology , in poetry from prosody , in geography from mathematics , in medicine from anatomy , was first taught in Alexandria . Its public library was the ...
... received from grammarians and critics , whatever in history we have gained from chronology , in poetry from prosody , in geography from mathematics , in medicine from anatomy , was first taught in Alexandria . Its public library was the ...
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... received its name Tape - Hanes , or Daphnæ . Fig . 165. The head of Cyrus with an Egyptian head - dress . From a bas - relief at Persepolis . ( Ker Porter's Travels . ) Fig . 166. The restoration of the temple at Sais described by ...
... received its name Tape - Hanes , or Daphnæ . Fig . 165. The head of Cyrus with an Egyptian head - dress . From a bas - relief at Persepolis . ( Ker Porter's Travels . ) Fig . 166. The restoration of the temple at Sais described by ...
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... received the name of Ægyptus , Egypt , or the land of Copts ; and these last two names , having once meant the Delta , were afterwards stretched southward to include the whole of the country . ( 3 ) We learn from the book of Genesis ...
... received the name of Ægyptus , Egypt , or the land of Copts ; and these last two names , having once meant the Delta , were afterwards stretched southward to include the whole of the country . ( 3 ) We learn from the book of Genesis ...
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... received worship in its own city ; while for the others the people respectfully stepped aside when they met them in the streets or fields . On the banks of the Nile it was easier , said the Greeks , to find a god than a man . It is not ...
... received worship in its own city ; while for the others the people respectfully stepped aside when they met them in the streets or fields . On the banks of the Nile it was easier , said the Greeks , to find a god than a man . It is not ...
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... received the name of hieroglyphics , or sacred carving . Egyptian 87 , 88 . ( 21 ) The power of making our thoughts known to Fig . 14 . absent friends and after ages by means of a few black marks on the paper , and of thus treasuring up ...
... received the name of hieroglyphics , or sacred carving . Egyptian 87 , 88 . ( 21 ) The power of making our thoughts known to Fig . 14 . absent friends and after ages by means of a few black marks on the paper , and of thus treasuring up ...
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Abou Simbel afterwards Alexander Alexandria Amasis Amun-Ra Amunothph Antigonus Arabs army Arridæus Artaxerxes Asia Minor Assyrian Athenians Babylon body Bubastis buildings built called Cambyses cataract chief coast conquered conqueror Cyprus Cyrene Darius death Delta Demetrius desert Diod Egyptian Ethiopia goddess gods gold Greece Greek Greek mercenaries head Hebrew held Heliopolis Herodotus hieroglyphics honour Hophra hundred Inarus inscriptions island Israelites Jews Judæa Karnak king's kingdom kings of Sais land Libyan Lower Egypt Macedonian Manetho marched Memphis Meroë mummy Napata nation Nectanebo neighbours Nile Nubia obelisks ornamented Osiris Osirtesen Pelusium perhaps Persians Phenicians Philadelphus priests province Pthah Ptolemy pyramids queen Rameses Rameses II Red Sea reign religion river sacred satrap sculpture sent ships Shishank side soldiers statues stone Syene Syria temple Thebaid Theban kings Thebes Thothmosis thousand throne tombs trade troops Upper Egypt valley walls worshipped
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