 | Samuel Sharpe - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...travellers, and to unfold the history of their builders. The Memnonium, the great palace of Ramcses II., was then standing ; and though it had been plundered...its ruins from those of the other palaces of Thebes. Diod. sic. One of its rooms, perhaps after the days of its builder, had been lib.i. i J fitted up as... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...Persian satraps. The Memnonium, the great palace of Eameses II., was then standing; and though it has been plundered by the Persians, the building itself...wear of the centuries which had rolled over them. Hecataeus measured its rooms, its court-yards, and its avenue of sphynxes ; and by his measurements... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...Persian satraps. The Memnonium, the great palace of Bameses II., was then standing; and though it has been plundered by the Persians, the building itself...wear of the centuries which had rolled over them. Hecataeus measured its rooms, its court-yards, and its avenue of sphynxes ; and by his measurements... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...silver, or above one million sterling, which had escaped the plundering hands of the Persian satraps. The Memnonium, the great palace of Rameses II., was...wear of the centuries which had rolled over them. Hecatasus measured its rooms, its court-yards, and its avenue of sphynxes ; and by his measurements... | |
 | Samuel Sharpe - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...the end of the world ; and seventeen of these had already been found out and broken open. Hecatasus was told that the other tombs had been before destroyed...and though it had been plundered by the Persians, tlie building itself was unhurt. Its massive walls had scarcely felt the wear of the centuries which... | |
 | Samuel Sharpe - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...and to unfold to us the history of their builders. (37) The Memnonium, the great palace of Eameses II., was then standing ; and though it had been plundered...scarcely felt the wear of the centuries which had rolled uver them. Hecateus measured its rooms, its courtyards, and its avenue of sphinxes ; and by his measurements... | |
 | Gaston Maspero - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...travellers, and to unfold to us the history of their builders. The Memnonium, the great palace of Ramses II., was then standing; and though it had been plundered...wear of the centuries which had rolled over them. Hecataeus measured its rooms, its courtyards, and its avenue of sphinxes; and by his measurements we... | |
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Hecatseus was told that the other tombs had been before destroyed ; and we owe it perhaps to this mistake that they remained unopened for more than two thousand years longer, to reward the searches of modern travellers, and to unfold to us the history... 