The Life of the Ancient East: Being Some Chapters of the Romance of Modern ExcavationA. & C. Black, 1923 - 463 páginas |
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Abydos adorned Ægean Akhenaten Amen Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ancient East Ancient Egypt artistic Ashur-bani-pal Assyrian Aten Babylon Babylonia beautiful brick bronze brought building built century chamber civilisation court Cretan Crete dead Der-el-Bahri discovered discovery doubt Dynasty Eannatum early Egypt Empire evidence excavation explorer fact famous feet fragments gate Gezer glory gold Greece Greek Gudea Hall hand Hatshepsut Hebrew Homeric inscription interest Karnak king Knossos Lagash land Layard Lord Minoan Minos modern mound mummy Museum Mycena Mycenæan Nile Nineveh Ningirsu obelisks Osiris palace Palestine patesi perhaps period Pharaoh probably Queen race Ramses Ramses II record reign reliefs remains remarkable romance royal ruins sacred says Schliemann sculptured Sennacherib Sety shrine side splendid splendour stele stone story Sumerian tablets Tell-el-Amarna temple Thebes Thothmes throne tion Tiryns tomb tower trace treasure Troy Tutankhamen Umma Urukagina Valley vases wall whole wonderful
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Página 58 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
Página 240 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 91 - Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Página 297 - WOE to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled ; And dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee ! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled ; And when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Página 58 - The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens., Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Página 87 - After getting through these passages, some of them two or three hundred yards long, you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps high enough to sit. But what a place of rest! Surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions; which, previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the...
Página 274 - Arabs withdrew the screen they had hastily constructed and disclosed an enormous human head sculptured in full out of the alabaster of the country. They had uncovered the upper part of a figure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth. I saw at once that the head must belong to a winged lion or bull, similar to those of Khorsabad and Persepolis. It was in admirable preservation. The expression was calm, yet majestic, and the outline of the features showed a freedom and knowledge of art...
Página 87 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support; so that I...
Página 243 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Página 373 - There was something very impressive in this vision of brilliant youth and of male beauty, recalled after so long an interval to our upper air from what had been till yesterday a forgotten world. Even our untutored Cretan workmen felt the spell and fascination. They, indeed, regarded the discovery of such a painting in the bosom of the earth as nothing less than miraculous, and saw in it the "icon...