Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... regarded as most worthy of being remembered and preserved for the knowledge of coming generations were carved on the most enduring material in their possession - stone . And so it is that we find to - day the cosmogonic and religious ...
... regarded as most worthy of being remembered and preserved for the knowledge of coming generations were carved on the most enduring material in their possession - stone . And so it is that we find to - day the cosmogonic and religious ...
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... regarded as artifices of the devil . They consequently destroyed all ves- tiges as well as all means of culture . They closed the acade- mies of Athens , the schools of Alexandria ; burned the libra- ries of the Serapion and other ...
... regarded as artifices of the devil . They consequently destroyed all ves- tiges as well as all means of culture . They closed the acade- mies of Athens , the schools of Alexandria ; burned the libra- ries of the Serapion and other ...
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... regarded by many as inexplicable myths . For instance , we find in them the history of certain personages who , after their death , be- came the gods most universally revered by the Egyptians , Isis and Osiris , whose earthly history ...
... regarded by many as inexplicable myths . For instance , we find in them the history of certain personages who , after their death , be- came the gods most universally revered by the Egyptians , Isis and Osiris , whose earthly history ...
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... regarded as authori- ties on American archæology . And so it is , indeed . Mine is not the fault , however , although it may be my misfortune , since it has surely entailed upon me their enmity and its conse- quences . But who are those ...
... regarded as authori- ties on American archæology . And so it is , indeed . Mine is not the fault , however , although it may be my misfortune , since it has surely entailed upon me their enmity and its conse- quences . But who are those ...
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... regarded by the ethnologist , the geologist , the naturalist , the philologist , the archæologist , and the historian as a most interesting field of study . Its area of seventy - three thousand square miles , covered with dense forests ...
... regarded by the ethnologist , the geologist , the naturalist , the philologist , the archæologist , and the historian as a most interesting field of study . Its area of seventy - three thousand square miles , covered with dense forests ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet Americanist ancestors ancient Maya archæology Asia assertion AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldean chap Chichen Cogolludo Coh's Memorial Hall color Cosas de Yucatan cosmogonic earth Egypt Egyptians emblem existed Father figure Fresco Painting funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist History of Egypt Ibid India inhabitants inscriptions island Khafra kings Kneph knowledge land Landa learned lineal measures Manners and Customs Maya books Maya civilization Maya dictionary Maya Empire Maya language Maya sages Maya word Mayach Mayapan meaning metre monuments Naacal Nahuatls natives Osiris palaces Palenque peninsula Plate Plongeon priests Prince Coh's Memorial Queen Móo Quichés remote ages represented Sacred Mysteries says sculptures serpent Sir Gardner Wilkinson Sphinx symbol tableau temples tion to-day translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship writing Yucatan