A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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For each person were placed a chair, a huge block of bread, a wooden spoon, two tumblers, and a bouquet.

In another moment or so, our road ends suddenly in a wild tumbled waste, like an exhausted quarry, shut in all round by impending precipices, at the base of which more rock-cut portals peep out at different points. A few groups of better dressed Copts were gathered near the screen listening to a black-robed deacon, who stood reading at the reading desk with a lighted taper in his left hand. King Tut's tomb was not discovered until 1922 and the Valleys of the Kings and Queens had not been as fully explored as they are currently.As for the Temple of Gournah, it is, at least in part, as distinctly a memorial edifice as the Medici Chapel at Florence or the Superga at Turin. The original text is complimented by colour images of Amelia's artwork made during or shortly after her travels, which have only previously been reproduced as black and white engravings. Colonists not long since departed from the western coasts of Asia Minor, these early European settlers are seen with the Asiatic stamp of features; a stamp which has now entirely disappeared. Yonder their galleys are sunk; their warriors are slain, drowned, captured, scathed, as it were, in a devouring fire.

He found in it statues of wood and porcelain, and the mummy of a bull; but nothing of value save the sarcophagus, which was empty. I am almost ashamed to remember now that we took our luncheon in the shade of that solemn vestibule, and rested and made merry, before going down into the great gloomy sepulchre whose staircases and corridors plunged away into the darkness below, as if they led straight to the land of Amenti. Mustapha Aga entertained all the English dahabeeyahs, and all the English dahabeeyahs entertained Mustapha Aga.This is a book that I have encountered in quotations and excerpts over the years and always intended to read; now I have. I've only just started reading it, but the voice of the author coming through the writing is very clear and quite nice to read.

Whether you're an Egyptologist, a traveler, or simply someone interested in the history of the region, this book is a must-read that offers a rich and captivating account of one of the world's most fascinating and mysterious cultures. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. It is not that the sculptures are effaced, but that the great blocks which bore them are gone from their places, having probably been hurled down bodily upon the heads of the enemy during a certain siege of which the ruins bear evident traces.She also proves to be an excellent historian as she describes the ancient ruins she and her travel party encounter as they sail up the Nile on their dahabeeyah the "Philae". We were next ushered through an anteroom where two turbaned and barefooted servants were in waiting; the one with a brass basin and ewer, the other with an armful of Turkish towels.

The weird rocks stand like sentinels to right and left as one enters the mouth of the valley, and take strange shapes as of obelisks and sphinxes. The first Pharaoh who chose his place of burial among those hidden ways, must have been he who cut the pass and levelled the road by which we now travel.As part of her efforts Edwards embarked on an ambitious lecture tour of the United States in the period 1889–1890. We now observed with some surprise that every word of the lessons as they were read in Coptic was translated, viva voce, into Arabic by a youth in a surplice, who stood against the screen facing the congregation.