{"product_id":"2940015756326","title":"History Of Egypt, Chald\u0026aelig;a, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria Volume 1 of 12","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.--THE NILE AND EGYPT The River and its Influence upon the\u003cbr\u003eFormation of the Country--The Oldest Inhabitants of the Valley and its\u003cbr\u003eFirst Political Organization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.--THE GODS OF EGYPT Their Number and their Nature--The Feudal\u003cbr\u003eGods, Living and Dead--The Triads--Temples and Priests--The Cosmogonies\u003cbr\u003eof the Delta--The Enneads of Heliopolis and of Hermopolis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.--THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF EGYPT The Divine Dynasties:\u003cbr\u003eRâ, Shû, Osiris, Sit, Horus-Thot, and the Invention of Sciences and\u003cbr\u003eWriting-Menes, and the Three First Human Dynasties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: 001.jpg PAGE ONE]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: 002.jpg PAGE TWO]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.--THE NILE AND EGYPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_THE RIVER AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON THE FORMATION AND CHARACTER OF\u003cbr\u003eTHE COUNTRY--THE OLDEST INHABITANTS OF THE LAND--THE FIRST POLITICAL\u003cbr\u003eORGANIZATION OF THE VALLEY._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Delta: its gradual formation, its structure, its canals--The valley\u003cbr\u003eof Egypt--The two arms of the river--The Eastern Nile--The appearance\u003cbr\u003eof its hanks--The hills--The gorge of Gehel Silsileh--The cataracts: the\u003cbr\u003efalls of Aswan--Nubia--The rapids of Wady Halfah--The Takazze--The Blue\u003cbr\u003eNile and the White Nile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sources of the Nile--The Egyptian cosmography--The four pillars\u003cbr\u003eand the four upholding mountains--The celestial Nile the source of the\u003cbr\u003eterrestial Nile--the Southern Sea and the islands of Spirits--The tears\u003cbr\u003eof Isis--The rise of the Nile--The Green Nile and the Bed Nile--The\u003cbr\u003eopening of the dykes---The fall of the Nile--The river at its lowest\u003cbr\u003eebb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe alluvial deposits and the effects of the inundation upon the soil of\u003cbr\u003eEgypt--Paucity of the flora: aquatic plants, the papyrus and the lotus;\u003cbr\u003ethe sycamore and the date-palm, the acacias, the dôm-palms--The fauna:\u003cbr\u003ethe domestic and wild animals; serpents, the urstus; the hippopotamus\u003cbr\u003eand the crocodile; birds; fish, the fahaka.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nile god: his form and its varieties--The goddess Mirit--The\u003cbr\u003esupposed sources of the Nile at Elephantine--The festivals of Gebel\u003cbr\u003eSilsileh-Hymn to the Nile from papyri m the British Museum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe names of the Nile and Egypt: Bomitu and Qimit--Antiquity of the\u003cbr\u003eEgyptianpeople--Their first horizon--The hypothesis of their Asiatic\u003cbr\u003eorigin--The probability of their African origin--The language and its\u003cbr\u003eSemitic affinities--The race and its principal types.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe primitive civilization of Egypt--Its survival into historic\u003cbr\u003etimes--The women of Amon--Marriage--Rights of women and\u003cbr\u003echildren--Houses--Furniture--Dress--Jewels--Wooden and metal\u003cbr\u003earms--Primitive life-Fishing and hunting--The lasso and \"bolas\"--The\u003cbr\u003edomestication of animals--Plants used for food--The lotus--Cereals--The\u003cbr\u003ehoe and the plough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe conquest of the valley--Dykes--Basins--Irrigation--The princes--The\u003cbr\u003enomes--The first local principalities--Late organization of the\u003cbr\u003eDelta--Character of its inhabitants--Gradual division of the\u003cbr\u003eprincipalities and changes of then areas--The god of the city._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: 003.jpg CHAPTER ONE]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NILE AND EGYPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The river and its influence upon the formation of the country--The\u003cbr\u003eoldest inhabitants of the valley and its first political organization._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     *  The same expression has been attributed to Hecatseus of\u003cbr\u003e     Miletus. It has often been observed that this phrase seems\u003cbr\u003e     Egyptian   on  the face of it, and it certainly recalls such\u003cbr\u003e     forms of expression as the following, taken from a formula\u003cbr\u003e     frequently found on funerary \"All things created by heaven,\u003cbr\u003e     given by earth, _brought by the Nile--from its mysterious\u003cbr\u003e     sources._\" Nevertheless, up to the present time, the\u003cbr\u003e     hieroglyphic texts have yielded nothing altogether\u003cbr\u003e     corresponding to the exact terms of the Greek historians--\u003cbr\u003e     _gift_ of the Nile, or its natural _product_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA long low, level shore, scarcely rising above the sea, a chain of\u003cbr\u003evaguely defined and ever-shifting lakes and marshes, then the triangular\u003cbr\u003eplain beyond, whose apex is thrust thirty leagues into the land--this,\u003cbr\u003ethe Delta of Egypt, has gradually been acquired from the sea, and is\u003cbr\u003eas it were the gift of the Nile. The Mediterranean once reached to the\u003cbr\u003efoot of the sandy plateau on which stand the Pyramids, and formed a\u003cbr\u003ewide gulf where now stretches plain beyond plain of the Delta. The\u003cbr\u003elast undulations of the Arabian hills, from Gebel Mokattam to Gebel\u003cbr\u003eGeneffeh, were its boundaries on the east, while a sinuous and shallow\u003cbr\u003echannel running between Africa and Asia united the Mediterranean to\u003cbr\u003ethe Red Sea.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162950222064,"sku":"2940015756326","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015756326","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}