Queen M'oo and the Egyptian sphinxРипол Классик, 1972 - 277 pages |
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... (Indian Saying.) IN this work I ofler no theory. In questions of history theories prove nothing. They are therefore out of place. I leave my readers. to draw their own inferences from the facts presented for their consideration. Whatever ...
... (Indian Saying.) IN this work I ofler no theory. In questions of history theories prove nothing. They are therefore out of place. I leave my readers. to draw their own inferences from the facts presented for their consideration. Whatever ...
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... Indian Ocean. The truth of the matter is, that these opinions are mere conjectures, simple hypotheses, and their advocates know no more when and where man first' appeared on earth than the new-born babe knows of his surroundings or how ...
... Indian Ocean. The truth of the matter is, that these opinions are mere conjectures, simple hypotheses, and their advocates know no more when and where man first' appeared on earth than the new-born babe knows of his surroundings or how ...
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... Indian. Ocean. -. Valmiki, in his beautiful epic the “ Ramayana,” says that, in times so remote that the “ sun had not yet risen above the horizon,” the Mayas, great navigators, terrible warriors, learned architects, conquered the ...
... Indian. Ocean. -. Valmiki, in his beautiful epic the “ Ramayana,” says that, in times so remote that the “ sun had not yet risen above the horizon,” the Mayas, great navigators, terrible warriors, learned architects, conquered the ...
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... 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, therefore,. ' The Acts ...
... 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, therefore,. ' The Acts ...
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... India, Ohaldea, Egypt, and Samothracia—the origin of the worship of the cross, of that of the tree and of the serpent, introduced in India by the Nagas, who raised such. a magnificent temple in Cambodia, in the city PREFA CE. xix.
... India, Ohaldea, Egypt, and Samothracia—the origin of the worship of the cross, of that of the tree and of the serpent, introduced in India by the Nagas, who raised such. a magnificent temple in Cambodia, in the city PREFA CE. xix.
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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