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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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, and Notes sur quelqiies 2>assages de la Stele de Konhan, in the Recueil de Travaux, vol. xiv.pp. 96-99; and finally by Schiaparelli, La Catena Orientale deW Egitto, pp. 86-88. Cf. Ehman,^Egypten iind .Egyptisches Lthen, pp. 617-019. * Classical authors say that he wished to establish communication between tbe Nile and the RedSea (Aristotle, Meteorol, I. xiv.; Strabo, I. i. § 31, p. 38, XVII. i. § 25, p. 804; Tliny, Nat. Hist.,vi. 29, § 165): all aifirm that this canal of Sesostris was never completed; a similar fate befell that ofPharaoh Necho (Herod., ii. 158). PUBLIC WOUES UNDER EAVSES II. 409 side of the Sinaitic Peninsula, and he built or enlarged the strongholds alongthe Nile at those points most frequently threatened by the incursions of nomadtribes. Ramses was the royal builder par excellence, and we may say withoutfear of contradiction that, from the second cataract to the mouths of the Nile,there is scarcely an edifice on whose ruins we do not find his name. In Nubia,
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lllE 1-ItUJLUTIXu COLUMNS UF Till; slXUi uF GEKF-llOSSlilN.- where the desert approaches close to the Nile, he confined himself to cuttingin the solid rock the monuments which, for want of space, he could not buildin the open. The idea of the cave-temple must have occurred very early tothe Egyptians; they were accustomed to house their dead in the mountain-side, why then should they not house their gods in the same manner? Theoldest forms of specs, those near to Beni-Hasan, at Deir el-Bahari, at El-Kab,and at Gebel Silsileh, however, do not date further back than the time oftho XVIII dynasty. All the forms of architectural plan observed in isolated For this line of fortifications, cf. what is saiil in the Daxm of Civilization, pp. 351, 3.5-J, 469, andalso p.. 122 of this volume. Some writers of the classical period attribute its fouudiitiou to Riimses II.,and speak of it as The Wall of Sesostris (Diodoiu-.s Sicvli.s, i. ..7). Urawu by Faueher-Gudin, from a photograph taken in 1881 by

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