A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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Viewing these tales by the light of a certain passage of the Ritual, in which the happy dead is promised "power to transform himself at will, to play at draughts, to repose in a pavilion," Dr.

De eerste ontdekkingen in Egypte waren gedaan, Champollion had de hiëroglyfen ontcijferd, het eerste museum van oudheden was ingericht in Caïro (maar veel waren al naar het buitenland verscheept). She has a unique talent for bringing the people and places she encounters to life, and her descriptions of the landscape and culture of the Nile are both beautiful and insightful. She wrote less than fifty years after Champollion, a decade before Gordon died at Khartoum; she was acquainted with most of the Egyptologists of her time and was a friend of Flinders Petrie.

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The EES, and many friends and colleagues around the world, mourn the death of Martin Davies who sadly passed away on Tuesday 6th June 2023.However, the incidents and places visited in the 1870s show an Egypt that must have been a wonder to encounter. Edwards was looking at statues that were thousands of years old - it was amazing that any vivid colors remained at all! It is the only detailed description of the condition of numerous Egyptian artifacts along the Nile region. Though she was easily as educated as the men she was helping craft the careers of, she received little respect.