Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 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 ' The Acts of the Apostles , chapter xix . , verse 19 . degree ...
... 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 ' The Acts of the Apostles , chapter xix . , verse 19 . degree ...
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... monuments for a future occasion ; restricting my observations now principally to the Memorial Hall at Chichen , dedicated to the manes of Prince Coh by his sister- wife Queen Moo ; and to the mausoleum , erected by her order , to ...
... monuments for a future occasion ; restricting my observations now principally to the Memorial Hall at Chichen , dedicated to the manes of Prince Coh by his sister- wife Queen Moo ; and to the mausoleum , erected by her order , to ...
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... monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head - a veritable sphinx . Once established in the land of her adoption , did she order the erection of another of his totems - again a leopard with human head - to preserve his ...
... monument was his totem , a dying leopard with a human head - a veritable sphinx . Once established in the land of her adoption , did she order the erection of another of his totems - again a leopard with human head - to preserve 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 difficult to ascertain . 66 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 difficult to ascertain . 66 This is not a book of romance or ...
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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 , sometimes 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 , sometimes of men , women , and children ; and that their ...
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