Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, and Early HistoryJ. Murray, 1842 - Egypt |
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... Valley of the Nile , terminates the third volume . The Appendix is preceded by a wood - cut , giving a topographical survey of the pyramids , and the tombs in their immediate vicinity , constructed by me in 1826 ; with the names of two ...
... Valley of the Nile , terminates the third volume . The Appendix is preceded by a wood - cut , giving a topographical survey of the pyramids , and the tombs in their immediate vicinity , constructed by me in 1826 ; with the names of two ...
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... Valley of the Nile not African Races · Asiatic Origin of the Egyptians . Egypt considered by some to be in Asia Ethiopia or Cush - The Thebaïd , the Parent of Egyptian Science , whence the Precedence of the Upper Country . Herodotus's ...
... Valley of the Nile not African Races · Asiatic Origin of the Egyptians . Egypt considered by some to be in Asia Ethiopia or Cush - The Thebaïd , the Parent of Egyptian Science , whence the Precedence of the Upper Country . Herodotus's ...
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... Valley of the Nile . extent E. and W. Cause of its Downfall . Towns on the Edge of the Desert Supposed Encroachments of the Sand . M. de Luc's No- Narrow Tract of Land in Nubia - 217 Increasing Position of · · · 219 - 221 - 223 Revenues ...
... Valley of the Nile . extent E. and W. Cause of its Downfall . Towns on the Edge of the Desert Supposed Encroachments of the Sand . M. de Luc's No- Narrow Tract of Land in Nubia - 217 Increasing Position of · · · 219 - 221 - 223 Revenues ...
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... valley of the Nile * , they bear the evident stamp of an Asiatic origin ; and Juba , according to Pliny t , af- firms that " the people of the banks of the Nile , from Syene to Meroe , were not Ethiopians ‡ , but Arabs . " And if ...
... valley of the Nile * , they bear the evident stamp of an Asiatic origin ; and Juba , according to Pliny t , af- firms that " the people of the banks of the Nile , from Syene to Meroe , were not Ethiopians ‡ , but Arabs . " And if ...
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... valley they inhabited to belong to Asia rather than to Africa * : others , again , have divided the country into two parts , the east and west banks of the Nile , assign- ing the former to Asia , the latter to Africa , and taking the ...
... valley they inhabited to belong to Asia rather than to Africa * : others , again , have divided the country into two parts , the east and west banks of the Nile , assign- ing the former to Asia , the latter to Africa , and taking the ...
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18th Dynasty According to Eusebius Ægyptus alluded Amasis Amosis Amunoph ancient authors appears Apries Arabs arms army Ascended the Throne Assyrians Beni Hassan brother called Cambyses canal captives chariots civilisation Conf conquests cubits Darius deity Delta desert Diod Diodorus Diospolite Kings Egyp Egypt and Thebes Egyptian Egyptian monarch enemy erected Ethiopia Eusebius event Exod Exodus gods Greeks Hebrew Herod Herodotus hieroglyphics historian Homer invaded Jews Joseph Karnak land Lower Egypt Manetho Medeenet Haboo Memnonium Memphis Menes mentioned military mode monarch monuments Name from Ancient nations Neco Nile nome observed omitted Osirei Pelusium period Persian Pharaoh Philoteras Plin Pliny Plutarch priests prince probably Psamaticus Pthah Ptolemy pyramids remarkable Remeses river Sabaco sacred Saïte says sculptures Sesostris Sethos shepherds shield stone Strabo succeeded successor Suphis suppose Syene Syria Tanites temple Thebaïd Theban Thebes Thothmes tians tion tomb town troops upper valley Vide wood-cut
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Page 73 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 51 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 73 - And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee : the land of Egypt is before thee ; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell ; in the land of Goshen let them dwell : and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
Page 51 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 174 - And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord ; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Page 159 - Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
Page 162 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land : for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Page 70 - And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
Page 174 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Page 171 - Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: and I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation ; and they shall be there a base kingdom.