Excerpt from The Life of the Ancient East: Being Some Chapters of the Romance of Modern ExcavationThe sites chosen for study have not been taken at random, as might appear on a casual glance. Each one finds its place here because of some special contribution which it made in bygone days to human knowledge and culture, or else because of some special advance of our knowledge of the past which has resulted from its excavation. Thus, to take inst...
When we consider the Cretans and Hittites, the powers of Babylonia and Assyria, and the internal conditions in Syria and Palestine, it can hardly be doubted that the reign of Akhetaten marks a turning point, notably in Egyptian history, but also in the wider history of the ancient world. Here the author vigorously reproduces this age, to show the intensely human interest that lies in the story of religion and art of decadence and reform.
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Excerpt from The Story of the PharaohsThe illustrations in the text are mostly reproduced from Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, but I have to acknowledge the kindness of Professor Petrie in granting permission to use Figs. 1, 2, and 3, as well as Plate XXI and of the authorities of the Egypt Exploration Fund in allowing the use of Fig. 22 (from el-amarna, iii.) while for the drawings used in Fig. 3, and Figs. 41 to 49 inclusive, I am indebted to...
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Excerpt from Through the TelescopeThe main object of the following chapters is to give a brief and simple description of the most important and interesting facts concerning the heavenly bodies, and to suggest to the general reader how much of the ground thus covered lies open to his personal survey on very easy conditions. Many people who are more or less interested in astronomy are deterred from making practical acquaintance with the wonders ...
Excerpt from Lands and Peoples of the BibleThe substance of the following chapters was delivered in lecture form to a class of young men and women during the winter of 1913 - 14. A few minor additions and corrections have since been made, but the bulk of the material remains as originally delivered. The volume is now published in the hope that Bible students, and possibly teachers of Bible classes, may find it useful in the way of providing a ...
Excerpt from Wonder Tales of the Ancient WorldFor, indeed, instead of being the dark, gloomy, mysterious people that we are apt to imagine them, the Egyptians were really one of the gayest, most light-hearted, and most easily amused of peoples. They were very fond of music and singing, and some of the oldest songs in all the world are the Simple old verses that the workmen used to sing at their work - the fisherman as he hauled his nets, the f...
Excerpt from Peeps at the Royal NavyIT is upon the Navy that, under the good providence of God, the wealth, prosperity, and the peace of these Islands and of the Empire do mainly depend. 80 runs a sentence in the Articles of War carried on board every warship of the British Fleet. And the purpose of this little book is to try to Show you how true that sentence has been and is, and how, bit by bit, through many hundreds of years, the rulers and...
Excerpt from A Century of Excavation in the Land of the PharaohsIt is somewhat remarkable that , in spite of the considerable, if spasmodic , interest which is taken in the results of research in Egypt, no adequate account of the work of excavation has ever been written. The student who wishes to learn how, when, and where the facts and objects which interest him were discovered, has himself to excavate the desired information from the innumer...
