A popular account of the ancient Egyptians. Revised and abridged from [Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians]. |
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... Bricks - Progress of architecture - Use of limestone Colossi Monoliths - Machinery — Masons -Early Egyptian inventions - Dresses Wigs - Dresses of women Ornaments — Ointments - Mirrors - Doctors - Magic - - 262 CHAPTER X. Funeral rites ...
... Bricks - Progress of architecture - Use of limestone Colossi Monoliths - Machinery — Masons -Early Egyptian inventions - Dresses Wigs - Dresses of women Ornaments — Ointments - Mirrors - Doctors - Magic - - 262 CHAPTER X. Funeral rites ...
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... bricks , at Thebes 196 198 · 200 200 437. The Goddess of Truth and Justice • 205 438. The Goddess of Truth " with her eyes closed " 205 439. The bastinado 440. Women bastinadoed 211 211 441. Workmen beaten 442. Bastinado for petty theft ...
... bricks , at Thebes 196 198 · 200 200 437. The Goddess of Truth and Justice • 205 438. The Goddess of Truth " with her eyes closed " 205 439. The bastinado 440. Women bastinadoed 211 211 441. Workmen beaten 442. Bastinado for petty theft ...
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... brick houses had been long exposed to the damp , the foundations gave way , and the fallen walls , saturated with water , were once more mixed with the mud from which they had been extracted . On these occasions , the blessings of the ...
... brick houses had been long exposed to the damp , the foundations gave way , and the fallen walls , saturated with water , were once more mixed with the mud from which they had been extracted . On these occasions , the blessings of the ...
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... bricks , tiles , plates of bronze , lead and other metals , wooden tablets , the inner bark ( hence liber ) and leaves of trees , and the shoulder bones of animals . Wooden tablets , covered with wax , were long in use among the Romans ...
... bricks , tiles , plates of bronze , lead and other metals , wooden tablets , the inner bark ( hence liber ) and leaves of trees , and the shoulder bones of animals . Wooden tablets , covered with wax , were long in use among the Romans ...
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... bricks , they build the boat in the following manner : -They fasten the planks round firm long pegs , and , after this , stretch over the surface a series of girths , but without any ribs ; and the whole CHAP . VII . 121 PAPYRUS BOATS ...
... bricks , they build the boat in the following manner : -They fasten the planks round firm long pegs , and , after this , stretch over the surface a series of girths , but without any ribs ; and the whole CHAP . VII . 121 PAPYRUS BOATS ...
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18th dynasty acacia according adopted Alnwick Castle ancient Egyptians animals appearance Arab arch bastinado Beni Hassan blue boats body bricks bronze cattle centre cloth colour confined cubits custom Diodorus dynasty early Eileithyias employed evidently figures fish found at Thebes frequently glass gold and silver granite Greece Greeks Hassan Heptanomis Herodotus hieroglyphics imitation inches introduced inundation invention iron Jews kind king known labour land leather length linen Lower Egypt manufacture mentioned metal mode modern Egyptians monuments mummy Museum Nile Nilometers ordinary ornaments Osiris paintings papyrus period persons Pharaoh Philoteras piece plant Plin Pliny plough present day priests probably Ptolemy punishment purpose Pyramids quantity quarries Remeses represented ring Romans rope round sails says scribe sculptures seed side sometimes Sown stone Strabo supposed talents weight temple Thebaïd Thebes Thothmes threads tion upper various vases weight wood Woodcut wooden
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