The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Volume 2George Bell, 1885 - Egypt |
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... seem to have been made at Memphis , under the rule of the Persians . Fig . 20. A drawing from a papyrus in the British Museum , of a lion playing at chess or draughts with a horned ass or unicorn . By the side of 278433 it , for ...
... seem to have been made at Memphis , under the rule of the Persians . Fig . 20. A drawing from a papyrus in the British Museum , of a lion playing at chess or draughts with a horned ass or unicorn . By the side of 278433 it , for ...
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... seems to say to the spirit of death ; Hurt me not . In the British Museum . Another Gnostic gem , bearing an armed man with two serpents for his legs and a cock's head . On his shield is written I , A , O. for Jehovah , and around him ...
... seems to say to the spirit of death ; Hurt me not . In the British Museum . Another Gnostic gem , bearing an armed man with two serpents for his legs and a cock's head . On his shield is written I , A , O. for Jehovah , and around him ...
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... seem likely to stand , to tell their tale to those who will Pausanias , hereafter call us the ancients . After this rebellion , Lathyrus reigned in quiet , and was even able to be of use to his Greek allies ; and the Athenians , in ...
... seem likely to stand , to tell their tale to those who will Pausanias , hereafter call us the ancients . After this rebellion , Lathyrus reigned in quiet , and was even able to be of use to his Greek allies ; and the Athenians , in ...
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... seems to have been at liberty to murder his wife . But Alexander was hated by the people as a king thrust upon them by foreign arms ; and Berenice , whatever they might have before thought of her , was regretted as the queen of their ...
... seems to have been at liberty to murder his wife . But Alexander was hated by the people as a king thrust upon them by foreign arms ; and Berenice , whatever they might have before thought of her , was regretted as the queen of their ...
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... seem to have failed ; their worn surface no longer declares to us their builders ' names and history . Their sloping sides , formed to withstand attacks , have not saved the inscriptions which they once held ; and the builders , in thus ...
... seem to have failed ; their worn surface no longer declares to us their builders ' names and history . Their sloping sides , formed to withstand attacks , have not saved the inscriptions which they once held ; and the builders , in thus ...
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