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Title: Photographic views of Egypt, past and present
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Thompson, Joseph Parrish, 1819-1879. [from old catalog]
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Publisher: Boston, J. P. Jewett and company Cleveland, Ohio, Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington
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ant^ (xlvi. 19). The first view of the pyramids impressed me with theirgrandeur as the monuments of kings, —- the parting view filledme with awe of their solemn majesty as monuments of de-parted empires. The kings that built them prepared atombstone for Egypt against her burial. Since I first saw EGYPT A SEPULCHRE. 345 them from the Delta, I had traversed for Jfive hundred milesthe valley of the Upper Nile, and had found it filled withburied cities: I had seen Thebes a ruin, and now saw theutter desolation of Noph and On. The whole Nile valley-is a sepulchre, where Egypt is buried, and these are themonuments that mark the entrance to the tomb. Descend-ing, I stood again in the solemn presence of the sphinx;and that huge mysterious head looked out, motionless,fathomless, while the shadows of the ages deepened, till thegrave of Egypt was shrouded in eternal night. APPENDIX. A. The following is the religious chant referred to on page 32, whosenotes form the recitative of the Nile song.
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La i – – la – – ha The following is a table of Egyptian Dynasties prepared for Bohn*sedition of the Letters of Lepsius. It contains the Lists of Manetho,and the dates of Biinsen and Lepsius. The list compiled by Mr.Poole, and reducing very much the antiquity of these dates, will befound in Appendix C. 348 APPENDIX. !3 O J. ?PI is S^ .2 S;g Jh —I rH 2 ©!2i pj !^ – « n. g r^ g a s -^ f^ ^ ^ § 1 s i -5 o.: QP Qj CO 1 S a»§ =- P O ..5 f3 rt rj CO •n cw H o o ^ ^ m i 1^ r,r ^ TO n3 i S hH 0 fcJO TO I TO •-3 (D & O rid 03 ^ fH yJ o TO ^ -g -g o « 2 TO TO .jia IIItoI^ ?xiorao •axiKiHX •axiKiHX •axiKJHaH •llSTNia APPENDIX. 349 REMARKABLE EVENTS. Builder of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh.Builds the second Pyramid. Builds the third Pyramid. Phiops (Moeris) formed out of thedesert, the fertile district of theFayoum. II 3 CDCO CO S^ o CO «2 i O O Cheops, Herodotus Chufu Chephren Schafra Menkera Mykerinus §S Apappus, Eratos., theMce
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