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Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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RAMSES II. STRIKES A GROCP OP PRISONERS. 410 THE REACTION AGAINST EGYPT. the hypostyle hall rests on six pillars with Hathor-headed capitals of fineproportions. A third excavated grotto of modest <limensions served as anaccessory chamber to tiie tvvo others.^ An inexhaustible stream of yellow sandpoured over the great temple from the summit of the cliff, and partially coveredit every year. No sooner were the efforts to remove it relaxed, tlian it spreads
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THE FACADE OF THE LITTLE SPEOS OP UAIIUK Al ALL ^liibLL. iuto the chambers, concealing the feet of the colossi, and slowly creepingupwards to their knees, breasts, and necks ; at the beginning of this centurythey were entirely hidden. In spite of all that was done to divert it, it cease-lessly reappeared, and in a lew summers regained all the ground which badbeen previously cleared. It would seem a? if the desert, powerless to destroythe work of the conqueror, was seeking nevertheless to hide it from theadmiration of posterity.* Seti had worked iudefatigably at Thebes, but the shortness of his reignprevented him from completing the buildings he had begun there. Thereexisted everywhere, at Luxor, at Karnak, and ou the left bank of the Nile, theremains of his unfinished works; sanctuaries partially roofed in, porticoes incom-plete, columns raised to merely half their height, halls as yet imperfect withblank walls, here and there covered with only the outlines in red and black It was dis

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