Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... metre in diameter . The base of these columns is formed of a single monolith one metre twenty centimetres high and two metres long , carved in GROUND PLAN . the shape of serpent heads with mouth open and tongue pro- truding . The shaft ...
... metre in diameter . The base of these columns is formed of a single monolith one metre twenty centimetres high and two metres long , carved in GROUND PLAN . the shape of serpent heads with mouth open and tongue pro- truding . The shaft ...
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... metre . For an answer to this unfounded criticism , see Appendix , notes xii , and xiv . 2 D. G. Brinton , Essays of an Americanist , p . 167 . 9 Ibid . , p . 261. For a reply to this assertion , see Appendix , note xv . ' Landa , Las ...
... metre . For an answer to this unfounded criticism , see Appendix , notes xii , and xiv . 2 D. G. Brinton , Essays of an Americanist , p . 167 . 9 Ibid . , p . 261. For a reply to this assertion , see Appendix , note xv . ' Landa , Las ...
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... metre high . The sides were once composed of slabs covered with inscrip- tions beautifully sculptured in intaglio to make them more lasting . Having been submitted to the action of fire , the characters have become well nigh obliterated ...
... metre high . The sides were once composed of slabs covered with inscrip- tions beautifully sculptured in intaglio to make them more lasting . Having been submitted to the action of fire , the characters have become well nigh obliterated ...
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... metre and its divisions are the only dimensions that can be applied to the remains of the edifices . But apart from the eccentricity of this statement , I do not see from Dr. Le Plongeon's own measurements that the metre is in any sense ...
... metre and its divisions are the only dimensions that can be applied to the remains of the edifices . But apart from the eccentricity of this statement , I do not see from Dr. Le Plongeon's own measurements that the metre is in any sense ...
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... metre is the only measure which , when applied to said buildings , leaves no fraction . How , then , does he , a mere closet archæologist , dare impute to eccentricity my statement to the " American Antiquarian Society of Worcester ...
... metre is the only measure which , when applied to said buildings , leaves no fraction . How , then , does he , a mere closet archæologist , dare impute to eccentricity my statement to the " American Antiquarian Society of Worcester ...
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