The Storehouses of the King; Or, the Pyramids of Egypt: What They Are and Who Built ThemGelder, Jane (Trill) van
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The Storehouses of the King; Or, the Pyramids of Egypt: What They Are and Who Built Them
Gelder, Jane (Trill) van
Pyramids
One hundred and sixty cubits high.—J. V. G.
Footnote 28:
Herodotus, _Euterpe_, ii.
Footnote 29:
The Pharaoh of Joseph.—J. V. G.
Footnote 30:
A malicious, culpable suppression of the truth. These people were the
Hebrews who came from Canaan to Joseph during the famine.—J. V. G.
Footnote 31:
They sold themselves for food and became slaves to Pharaoh.—J. V. G.
Footnote 32:
Joseph, made governor by Pharaoh.—J. V. G.
Footnote 33:
To guard the Pyramids from being broken into, as the people at that
time knew that they were granaries.—J. V. G.
Footnote 34:
These men were the brethren that Joseph presented to Pharaoh
immediately on their arrival, and who were appointed by him to be
rulers over his cattle. Gen. xlvii. 6.—J. V. G.
Footnote 35:
This Alisphragmuthosis is meant for Moses, the son of the daughter of
Pharaoh, by adoption.—J. V. G.
Footnote 36:
Thummosis was not the son, but brother, of Moses—Aaron.—J. V. G.
Footnote 37:
The exodus of the Children of Israel for the Land of Promise.—J. V.
G.
Footnote 38:
Josephus, _Against Apion_.
Footnote 39:
Goshen.—J. V. G.
Footnote 40:
Building treasure-cities for Pharaoh—Pithom, and Raamses.
Footnote 41:
The new king, who knew not Joseph.
Footnote 42:
The true and authentic version is in the Bible, written by Moses.
They were overwhelmed in the Red Sea, instead of retiring into
Ethiopia!—J. V. G.
Footnote 43:
Josephus, _Against Apion_.
Footnote 44:
Josephus.
Footnote 45:
The Talmud.
Footnote 46:
Done by Greeks in modern times.—J. V. G.
Footnote 47:
The consort of Moses was from Meroë, and she must have had her hair
dressed in that fashion.—J. V. G.
Footnote 48:
A.D. 1837.
Footnote 49:
Piazzi Smyth, _Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid_.
Footnote 50:
Tytler, _Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the more
Northern Coasts of America_.
Footnote 51:
Laborde, _Journey through Arabia Petræa, to Mount Sinai, and the
excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies_.
Footnote 52:
This being the camp of the Children of Israel, these chambers were
the dwellings of the living.—J. V. G.
Footnote 53:
Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_.
Footnote 54:
Vaux, _Nineveh and Persepolis_.
Footnote 55:
Vaux, _Nineveh and Persepolis_.
Footnote 56:
Mountstuart Elphinstone, _Account of the Kingdom of Cabul_.
Footnote 57:
See Lev. vi. 14-18.—J. V. G.
Footnote 58:
Lieut.-Colonel Torrens, _Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir_.
Footnote 59:
Frank Vincent, Jun., _The Land of the White Elephant._
Footnote 60:
A modern addition.—J. V. G.
Footnote 61:
Out-offices for the servants of the palace.—J. V. G.
Footnote 62:
Lieut.-General Fytche, _Burmah Past and Present_.
Footnote 63:
Ernest Oppert, _A Forbidden Land_.
Footnote 64:
W. Bullock, _Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico_.
Footnote 65:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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