Rameses the Great; or, Egypt 3300 Years Ago

Egypt under the greatest of the pharaohs, written when the hieroglyphs had only just begun to speak — Rameses II's wars, monuments and household, with thirty-nine wood engravings.

The Monuments of Rameses The

18 pages in this part of Rameses the Great.

The Monuments of Rameses The

The Testimony of Herodotus, of Diodorus, and of the Bible. - Memphis and Thebes. -the Great Days of Royalty. - An Artesian Well in the time…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Egypt

None of Mei-Amoun's successors attained the distant boundaries that he had set to his dominion, and none of them impressed upon the soil of…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Thebes

In the temple of the god worshipped at Thebes, he consecrated a vessel of cedar wood two hundred and eighty cubits long, and plated it with…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Herodotus

THESE details, borrowed from many sources, no doubt, by the historian of Stagyra, agree with those * The Greek form of the Egyptian Phtah…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Nile

ONE hundred and fifty leagues of navigation, ascending the windings of the Nile, over the richest soil and the most densely inhabited…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Paris

A mingled surface of earth and sand nearly as spacious as the modern area of Paris, traversed by a river the width of which at its period…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Egyptian

Four enormous massive groups, standing with broad spaces between them, sentinelled upon this field of ruins and holding, as though in a…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Diodorus

In the time of Diodorus, the historical sense of this grand Egyptian period had already been lost to the Greeks, if, indeed, the latter had…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Moses

The concordance of the periods of time, and the minutie of the narrative do not leave room to attribute these wants to any other Pharaoh…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Ammon

HUREL 新 Captives building a temple; from a mural painting.-18th dynasty. us prisoners of war employed in kneading clay, moulding bricks and…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Okau

And permission to speak having been accorded to the chiefs of Okau, they said: "Thy power has no bounds; it is like the power of Mandu and…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Cush

Thus spake the chiefs of Okau; then a great dignitary, the second in the empire, the viceroy of Ethiopia, came forward to sustain their…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Nubia

And the prince of Nubia, superintendent of the land of Cush, having got together the necessary workmen recommenced the task that had been…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Champollion

Champollion has called attention to the fact that the mere presence of the wife of the Ethiopian prince who figured in this ceremony at the…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Ipsamboul

It will be understood that we refer to the speos of Athor at Ipsamboul, the grotto of purity and of love, the details of which are full of…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Sha-em-Jom

Then, as the good king Priam was made to feel in later years, he had to admit that a lengthy lineage is not always a guarantee of good…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Appendix

At the words of this aged priest, inspired with a patriotic remembrance as though by the breath of his god, Darius, the undisputed…

The Monuments of Rameses The: Bahr-bela-ma

THE ANCIENT BED OF THE NILE, (p. 33.) To the westward of the Delta, parallel to its line of inclination and thirty-five miles distant, runs…

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