Queen M'oo and the Egyptian sphinxРипол Классик, 1972 - 277 pages |
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... monuments of India, Chaldea, Egypt, and Greece; in the great pyramid of Ghizeh, in the famed Parthenon of Athens. Although architecture is an unerring standard of the degree of civilization reached by a people, and constitutes ...
... monuments of India, Chaldea, Egypt, and Greece; in the great pyramid of Ghizeh, in the famed Parthenon of Athens. Although architecture is an unerring standard of the degree of civilization reached by a people, and constitutes ...
Page xvi
... monuments for a future occasion; restricting my observations now principally to the Memorial Hall at Chlchen, dedicated to the manes of Prince Coh by his sisterwife Queen M60; and to the mausoleum, erected by her order, to contain his ...
... monuments for a future occasion; restricting my observations now principally to the Memorial Hall at Chlchen, dedicated to the manes of Prince Coh by his sisterwife Queen M60; and to the mausoleum, erected by her order, to contain his ...
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... monuments. The accuracy of said drawings and plans can be easily proved on the photographs themselves. I have besides given many references whose correctness it is not diflicult to ascertain. This is not a. book of romance or ...
... monuments. The accuracy of said drawings and plans can be easily proved on the photographs themselves. I have besides given many references whose correctness it is not diflicult to ascertain. This is not a. book of romance or ...
Page xxiv
... monuments of Yucatan are very ancient, much anterior to the Christian era, notwithstanding the opinion to the contrary of the self-styled authorities on Maya civilization. 3. That nothing now stands in the way of acquiring a perfect.
... monuments of Yucatan are very ancient, much anterior to the Christian era, notwithstanding the opinion to the contrary of the self-styled authorities on Maya civilization. 3. That nothing now stands in the way of acquiring a perfect.
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... monuments appeared new, as if they had been. built only twenty years, the Indians did 'not live in them, but used them as temples and sanctuaries, offering in them sacrifices, sometimcs of men, women, and children; and that their ...
... monuments appeared new, as if they had been. built only twenty years, the Indians did 'not live in them, but used them as temples and sanctuaries, offering in them sacrifices, sometimcs of men, women, and children; and that their ...
Table des matières
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LXHI Javelin Head and Arrow Points found with the Charred | 159 |
Portrait of Queen M60 From a demirelief adorning | 166 |
Portrait of Bishop Lands second Bishop of Yucatan | 169 |
LXVHI Mezzorelievo in Stucco on the Frieze of the Temple | 197 |
Fresco Painting in the Funeral Chamber of Prince Cohs | 222 |
The Lord of the Yucatan Forests From life | 236 |
Part of Facade of the Sanctuary at Uxmal Cosmic | 256 |
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