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... Egyptian stones , older and larger but better understood than those of Stonehenge . What extraordinary skills it took to cut the enormous stones of red Aswan granite , to get them from the quarry to the Nile , to barge them to a ...
... Egyptian stones , older and larger but better understood than those of Stonehenge . What extraordinary skills it took to cut the enormous stones of red Aswan granite , to get them from the quarry to the Nile , to barge them to a ...
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... Egyptian terms a vast dead city . Work was going all the time , new tombs being built , older ones being maintained or refurbished . A horde of workmen was busy building walls , sawing timbers , while sculptors and painters were always ...
... Egyptian terms a vast dead city . Work was going all the time , new tombs being built , older ones being maintained or refurbished . A horde of workmen was busy building walls , sawing timbers , while sculptors and painters were always ...
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... Egyptian Breasted , James Henry . A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest ( New York : Bantam , 1964 ) . The classic work . Though contradicted here and there by contemporary scholars ( it was first published ...
... Egyptian Breasted , James Henry . A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest ( New York : Bantam , 1964 ) . The classic work . Though contradicted here and there by contemporary scholars ( it was first published ...
Contents
Chapter Three ARCHITECTURAL TRAVEL WITH PARTICULAR | 35 |
Chapter Six THE ARCHITECTURE OF STONE | 151 |
English Features | 417 |
Copyright | |
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The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That ... Jake Morrissey,J. P. Morrissey No preview available - 2005 |