Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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... sculptures and inscriptions , by the figure of that beautiful bird , whose plumage is composed of brilliant feathers of various colors . GODDESS ISIS AS A BIRD.1 ' Gardner Wilkinson , Manners and Customs , vol . iii . , chap . xiii ...
... sculptures and inscriptions , by the figure of that beautiful bird , whose plumage is composed of brilliant feathers of various colors . GODDESS ISIS AS A BIRD.1 ' Gardner Wilkinson , Manners and Customs , vol . iii . , chap . xiii ...
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... sculptures resembles a human heart , 5 which vividly recalls the on of the Mayas , that bears the alligator pear - the Laurus persea of Linnæus , so abundant in tropical America . X Can it be that all these are mere coincidences ? If ...
... sculptures resembles a human heart , 5 which vividly recalls the on of the Mayas , that bears the alligator pear - the Laurus persea of Linnæus , so abundant in tropical America . X Can it be that all these are mere coincidences ? If ...
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... sculptures . Did the learned men of Mayach know that the waters cover about three - fifths of the earth , the land only two - fifths ? And why not ? Do we not know it ? Were not their people navigators ? It may be asked , What is the ...
... sculptures . Did the learned men of Mayach know that the waters cover about three - fifths of the earth , the land only two - fifths ? And why not ? Do we not know it ? Were not their people navigators ? It may be asked , What is the ...
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... sculptures ; ornamenting with them the walls of their public edifices , not only to generalize them among their contemporaries , but to transmit them to future generations in a lasting manner . They did not fail to do it in this ...
... sculptures ; ornamenting with them the walls of their public edifices , not only to generalize them among their contemporaries , but to transmit them to future generations in a lasting manner . They did not fail to do it in this ...
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... sculptures of the tem- ples , in an attitude of prayer . There , as at Thebes , those monkeys were buried in stone tombs , in which their skeletons have been found in perfect preservation . Fray Geronimo Roman , a writer of the ...
... sculptures of the tem- ples , in an attitude of prayer . There , as at Thebes , those monkeys were buried in stone tombs , in which their skeletons have been found in perfect preservation . Fray Geronimo Roman , a writer of the ...
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