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A History of Egypt From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest
A History of Egypt From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest Author:James Henry Breasted General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: Scribner Description: A 1905 scholarly study of the development of Egyptian civilization is based on the study of hieroglyphic documents and original monuments Subjects: Egypt Pharaohs History, Ancient History / Ancient / Egypt History / Midd... more »le East / Egypt History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East / Egypt Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Middle East Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: / art than had ever before been possible/ There were among them men of the highest gifts, and one of them, who bore the same name as the king, gained such a wide reputation for his wisdom that his sayings circulated in Greek some twelve hundred years later among the '' Proverbs of the Seven Wise Men"; and in Ptolemaic times he was finally worshipped as a god, and took his place among the innumerable deities of Egypt as "Amenhotep, son of Hapu."1 Under the fingers of such men as these the old and traditional elements of Egyptian building were imbued with new life and combined into new forms in which they took on a wondrous beauty unknown before. Besides this, the unprecedented resources of wealth and labour at the command of Fio. 125. The Peripteral Cella-temple. Built by Amenhotep III on the Island of Elephantine. It was destroyed for building material by the Turkish governor of Assuan in 1822. (After the " Description " by Napoleon's Expedition.) such an architect enabled him to deal with such vast dimensions that the element of size alone must have rendered his buildings in the highest degree impressive. But of the two forms of temple which now developed, the smaller is not less | n, on. ...« less