W Flinders Petrie Books

Egyptian Tales 1st Series

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Excerpts: [... To avoid offence a few little modifications of words have been made but rather than give a false impression by tampering with any of the narrative, ...... author and the reader: the one cannot resent it, the other therefore resents it for both. But what is to be deemed needless entirely depends on the ...... whither he went. And his majesty the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Nebka, ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 230

Egyptian Tales 2nd Series

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Excerpts: [... of his majesty who were in Joppa and his majesty said, Let Tahutia go with his footmen and destroy this wicked Foe in Joppa. And he called one ...... the poles to bear them. And he put every strong footman to bear them, in all six hundred men, and said to them, When you come into the town you shall ...... THE XVIIIth DYNASTY. THE DOOMED PRINCE. There once was a king to whom no son ...]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 404

The Religion Of Ancient Egypt

  [english | 1906]  

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Excerpts: [... was not a divine attribute. Nor was there any doubt that they might suffer while alive one myth tells how Ra, as he walked on earth, was bitten ...... found at first as separate units in different places, Isis as a virgin goddess, and Horus as a self-existent god. Each city appears to have but one ...... to feed upon. In the grave we find this belief shown by the jars of water, ...]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 11