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Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
thousand years. We need take nothing from hearsay; for in
their marvellous system of hieroglyphics the Pharaohs and
their subjects wrote on every temple and tomb the date and
circumstances...
in the fifty centuries during which they were laying the basis of civilisation? Tombs and temples, and the tiniest minutiæ of household implements and personal ornaments, but hardly one house that was not built of mud. From their houses we learn little except...
in the fifty centuries during which they were laying the basis of civilisation? Tombs and temples, and the tiniest minutiæ of household implements and personal ornaments, but hardly one house that was not built of mud. From their houses we learn little except...
Oriental Cairo : the city of the "Arabian nights" [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
-Hakim, another of the primitive mosques, rise like the pylons of in the midst of mediaeval
. They have the solid
simplicity of the temples of ancient Egypt; and religion
has left them...
the sky threatens to vanish. The Gamaliya has ancient overhanging timber porches which would grace a Japanese temple. The Sukkariya and the streets which continue it are as fantastic...
the sky threatens to vanish. The Gamaliya has ancient overhanging timber porches which would grace a Japanese temple. The Sukkariya and the streets which continue it are as fantastic...