Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 26, 2024

In Category - Travel & Geography, Antiquity

Authors: Chien Tao, Foster Barham Zincke In Year : 1873

Book Language: English

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Egypt and the Nile
How in Egypt Nature affected Man
Who were the Egyptians?
Egypt the Japan of the Old World
Backsheesh.—The Girl of Bethany
Antiquity and Character of the Pyramid Civilization
Labour was Squandered on the Pyramids because it could not be bottled up
The Great Pyramid looks down on the Cataract of Philæ
The Wooden Statue in the Boulak Museum
Date of Building with Stone
Going to the Top of the Great Pyramid
Luncheon at the Pyramids. Kêf
Abydos
The Faioum
Heliopolis
Thebes—Luxor and Karnak
Thebes—The Necropolis
Thebes—The Temple-Palaces
Rameses the Great goes forth from Egypt
Germanicus at Thebes
Moses’s Wife
Egyptian Donkey-boys
Scarabs
Egyptian Belief in a Future Life
Why the Hebrew Scriptures ignore the Future Life
Why the Hebrew Scriptures ignore the Future Life continued
The Effect of Eastern Travel on Belief
The Historical Method of Interpretation
The Delta—Disappearance of its Monuments
Post-Pharaohnic Temples in Upper Egypt
The Rationale of the Monuments
The Wisdom of Egypt, and its Fall
Egyptian Landlordism
Caste
Persistency of Custom in the East
Are all Orientals Mad?
The Koran
Oriental Prayer
Pilgrimage
Arab Superstitions.—The Evil Eye
Oriental Cleanliness
Why Orientals are not Republicans
Polygamy—Its Cause
Houriism
Can anything be done for the East?
Achmed tried in the Balance with Hodge
Water-Jars and Water-Carriers
Want of Wood in Egypt, and its Consequences
Trees in Egypt
Gardening in Egypt
Animal Life in Egypt.—The Camel
The Ass.—The Horse
The Dog.—The Unclean Animal.—The Buffalo.—The Ox.—The Goat and the Sheep.—Feræ Naturæ
Birds in Egypt
The Egyptian Turtle
Insect Plagues
The Shadoof
Alexandria
Cairo
The Canalization of the Isthmus
Conclusion
Conclusion continued

Those particulars of the History of Egypt, and of its present condition, in which it differs from other countries, are factors of the idea this famous name stands for, which must be brought prominently into view in any honest and useful construction of the idea. Something of this kind is what the author of the following work has been desirous of attempting, and so was unable, as he was also unwilling, to pass by any point, or question, which fell within the requirements of his design. His aim, throughout, has been to aid those who have not studied the subject much, or perhaps at all, in understanding what it is in the past, and in the present, that gives to Egypt a claim on their attention. The pictures of things, and the thoughts about them, which he offers to his readers, are the materials with which the idea of Egypt has been built up in his own mind: they will judge how far with, or without, reason. The work had its origin in a tour the author made through the country in the early months of this year. It consists, indeed, of the thoughts that actually occurred to him at the time, and while the objects that called them forth were still before him; with, of course, some[x] pruning, and, here and there, some expansion or addition. They are presented to the reader with somewhat more of methodical arrangement than would have been possible had the hap-hazard sequence, in which the objects and places that suggested them were visited, been adhered to. As he started for Egypt at a few hours’ notice, it did not occur to him to take any books with him. This temporary absence of the means of reference, and verification, will, in some measure, account for the disposition manifested throughout to follow up the trains of thought Egyptian objects quicken in the beholder’s mind. These excursus, however, as they will appear to those who take little interest in the internal, and ask only for the external, incidents of travel, have been retained, not merely because they were necessary for what came to be the design of the work, but also because, had they been excluded, the work would have ceased to be something real; for then it would not have been what it professes to be, that is, a transcript of the thoughts which the sights of Egypt actually gave rise to in the authors mind. Wherstead Vicarage: May 13, 1871. - Summary by from the Introduction to the first edition.