Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... tion known in historic times . This people had an abundant literature , and they were the inventors of a system of writing which was at first hieroglyphic . Of the people who invented this system of writing very little is known with cer ...
... tion known in historic times . This people had an abundant literature , and they were the inventors of a system of writing which was at first hieroglyphic . Of the people who invented this system of writing very little is known with cer ...
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... tion for Orientalists and philologists . They are not yet agreed as to its meaning , simply because they do not know to what language it belongs nor whence came the people who raised the monument . We are told they were strangers in the ...
... tion for Orientalists and philologists . They are not yet agreed as to its meaning , simply because they do not know to what language it belongs nor whence came the people who raised the monument . We are told they were strangers in the ...
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... tion of auguries was well nigh reduced to a simple matter of form , Chaldean magicians , whose fame was universal and dated from very remote antiquity , flocked to Rome , and were welcomed by the Romans of all classes and both sexes ...
... tion of auguries was well nigh reduced to a simple matter of form , Chaldean magicians , whose fame was universal and dated from very remote antiquity , flocked to Rome , and were welcomed by the Romans of all classes and both sexes ...
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... tion to the god Asshur , the mighty god who dwells in the temple of Kharsak - kurra , " the mountain of the world , daz- zling with gold , silver , and precious stones , " has been trans- lated by Professor Sayce of England.1 The name ...
... tion to the god Asshur , the mighty god who dwells in the temple of Kharsak - kurra , " the mountain of the world , daz- zling with gold , silver , and precious stones , " has been trans- lated by Professor Sayce of England.1 The name ...
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... tion , but that through some strange anomaly in the history of man they had been deprived of a great part of the language and the entire written system which had formerly been the ' Pio Perez , Maya dictionary . Pedro Beltran , Art del ...
... tion , but that through some strange anomaly in the history of man they had been deprived of a great part of the language and the entire written system which had formerly been the ' Pio Perez , Maya dictionary . Pedro Beltran , Art del ...
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Abbé Brasseur adorned Akkadian alphabet Americanist ancestors ancient Maya archæology Asia assertion AUGUSTUS LE PLONGEON Brinton called Caribbean Sea Chaldean chap Chichen Cogolludo Coh's Memorial Hall color Cosas de Yucatan cosmogonic earth Egypt Egyptians emblem existed Father figure Fresco Painting funeral chamber gods Greek hand head Herodotus Hindoos Hist History of Egypt Ibid India inhabitants inscriptions island Khafra kings Kneph knowledge land Landa learned lineal measures Manners and Customs Maya books Maya civilization Maya dictionary Maya Empire Maya language Maya sages Maya word Mayach Mayapan meaning metre monuments Naacal Nahuatls natives Osiris palaces Palenque peninsula Plate Plongeon priests Prince Coh's Memorial Queen Móo Quichés remote ages represented Sacred Mysteries says sculptures serpent Sir Gardner Wilkinson Sphinx symbol tableau temples tion to-day translation tree Troano Uxmal verse warrior West Western Continent worship writing Yucatan