Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... ( Indian Saying . ) In this work I offer 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 ...
... ( Indian Saying . ) In this work I offer 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 ...
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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 sur- roundings ...
... 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 sur- roundings ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ' The Acts of the Apostles , chapter xix . , verse 19 . degree 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 of ...
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... India , Chaldea , Egypt , and Samothra- cia - 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 PREFACE . xix.
... India , Chaldea , Egypt , and Samothra- cia - 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 PREFACE . xix.
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