Egypt
- Why My Great-great-great Grandfather Defaced Ancient Egyptian Monuments
The Guardian (Philippa McDonnell) With photo. My ancestor, Earl Belmore, travelled throughout Egypt in the early 1800s - and developed a taste for signing his name on antiquities I have been worried by the behaviour of my great-great-great-grandfather....
- Summer Solstice
I'm off to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the Heliacal Rising of Sirius and the beginning of a new year in the Ancient Egyptian calendar. I'll be back tomorrow with more news. How many are your deeds, though hidden from sight. O sole God without...
- Belzoni's Account Of The Tomb Of Seti I
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/05/the_tomb_of_set.html The Travellers in Egypt website has another great crop of articles. This one is an extract from Belzoni's Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids,...
- Travellers In Egypt
Lotus and Pyramid: Constance - Constance Sitwell, 1928 http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/04/white_bird_in_h.html "I am sitting on the window-sill in my room eating sugar-cane. It is so juicy and fresh one could go on nibbling at it all day....
- A Miracle In Stone
Reverend Joseph A. Seiss Porter Coates Philadelphia 1877 ASIN B002EEP30M This 137 year old book is by Reverend Joseph A. Seiss pastor of The Church of the Holy Communion. The book is about the theory that the great pyramid at Giza is a holy book made...
Egypt
A 1371 view of the Great Pyramids
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/of_the_country.html
Another lovely extract from something written about Egypt in another era, this time by Jehan De Mandeville, or Sir John Mandeville, who compiled a travel book published by 1371, and written in French: "And now also I shall speak of another thing that is beyond Babylon, above the flood of the Nile, toward the desert between Africa and Egypt; that is to say, of the garners of Joseph, that he let make for to keep the grains for the peril of the dear years. And they be made of stone, full well made of masons’ craft; of the which two be marvellously great and high, and the tother ne be not so great. And every garner hath a gate for to enter within, a little high from the earth; for the land is wasted and fallen since the garners were made. And within they be all full of serpents. And above the garners without be many scriptures of diverse languages. And some men say, that they be sepultures of great lords, that were sometime". See the above page for the full extract and details about the rather mysterious author.
- Why My Great-great-great Grandfather Defaced Ancient Egyptian Monuments
The Guardian (Philippa McDonnell) With photo. My ancestor, Earl Belmore, travelled throughout Egypt in the early 1800s - and developed a taste for signing his name on antiquities I have been worried by the behaviour of my great-great-great-grandfather....
- Summer Solstice
I'm off to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the Heliacal Rising of Sirius and the beginning of a new year in the Ancient Egyptian calendar. I'll be back tomorrow with more news. How many are your deeds, though hidden from sight. O sole God without...
- Belzoni's Account Of The Tomb Of Seti I
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/05/the_tomb_of_set.html The Travellers in Egypt website has another great crop of articles. This one is an extract from Belzoni's Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids,...
- Travellers In Egypt
Lotus and Pyramid: Constance - Constance Sitwell, 1928 http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/04/white_bird_in_h.html "I am sitting on the window-sill in my room eating sugar-cane. It is so juicy and fresh one could go on nibbling at it all day....
- A Miracle In Stone
Reverend Joseph A. Seiss Porter Coates Philadelphia 1877 ASIN B002EEP30M This 137 year old book is by Reverend Joseph A. Seiss pastor of The Church of the Holy Communion. The book is about the theory that the great pyramid at Giza is a holy book made...