Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... funeral chamber , the principal events of his and her life , just as the Egyptian kings had the events of their own lives painted on the walls of their tombs . Language is admitted to be a most accurate guide in tracing the family ...
... funeral chamber , the principal events of his and her life , just as the Egyptian kings had the events of their own lives painted on the walls of their tombs . Language is admitted to be a most accurate guide in tracing the family ...
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... funeral chamber , we asked ourselves , Are we still in That small present we owe to the ghosts ; Those powers do not look at what we give them , but how ; No greedy desires prompt the Stygian shades . They only ask a tile crowned with ...
... funeral chamber , we asked ourselves , Are we still in That small present we owe to the ghosts ; Those powers do not look at what we give them , but how ; No greedy desires prompt the Stygian shades . They only ask a tile crowned with ...
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... FUNERAL BOAT . No doubt at the time of their arrival the waters were swarming with crocodiles , so they also naturally called the country the " place of crocodiles , " Ain , which word is the name of Egypt on the monuments ; and in the ...
... FUNERAL BOAT . No doubt at the time of their arrival the waters were swarming with crocodiles , so they also naturally called the country the " place of crocodiles , " Ain , which word is the name of Egypt on the monuments ; and in the ...
Page 81
... funeral chamber is most interest- ing . In these , and in the portraits of personages carved on the pillars and antæ of the portico and the jambs of the doorway , the ethnologist can study the features of the ancient Mayas , and ...
... funeral chamber is most interest- ing . In these , and in the portraits of personages carved on the pillars and antæ of the portico and the jambs of the doorway , the ethnologist can study the features of the ancient Mayas , and ...
Page 81
... funeral customs of the Egyptians , says : " Married women alone were permitted to wear the ma- gasies , or ringlets , at the side of the face . The hair was bound at the end with a string , like the plaits at the back of the head , so ...
... funeral customs of the Egyptians , says : " Married women alone were permitted to wear the ma- gasies , or ringlets , at the side of the face . The hair was bound at the end with a string , like the plaits at the back of the head , so ...
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