| Herodotus - 1858 - 658 páginas
...that he was arrogant towards the Gods ; but, repenting, he wrote the Sacred Book."— [GW] service. Some were required to drag blocks of stone down to...Nile from the quarries in the Arabian range of hills ;4 others received the blocks after they had been conveyed in boats across the river, and drew them... | |
| Herodotus - 1859 - 552 páginas
...forbade the Egyptians to offer sacrifice, compelling them instead to labour, one and all, in his service. Some were required to drag blocks of stone down to...river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan.5 A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three months by a fresh... | |
| Herodotus - 1866 - 560 páginas
...the Egyp« tians to offer sacrifice, compelling them instead to labour, one and all, in his service. Some were required to drag blocks of stone down to...river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan.5 A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three months by a fresh... | |
| Herodotus - 1875 - 656 páginas
...forbade the Egyptians to oiler sacrifice, compelling them instead to lahour, one and all, in his service. Some were required to drag blocks of stone down to...Nile from the quarries in the Arabian range of hills ; 4 others received the blocks after they had been conveyed in boats across the river, and drew them... | |
| Anonymous - 1875 - 522 páginas
...which one man transports a single weight much too heavy for oue.J In an account of Cheops' causeway, "some were required to drag blocks of stone down to the Nile ; others drew them to the range of hills called Libyan ; a hundred thousand men eat bread constantly,... | |
| Herodotus - 1880 - 660 páginas
...forbade the Egyptians to offer sacrifice, compelling them instead to labour, one and all, in his service. Some were required to drag blocks of stone down to...they had been conveyed in boats across the river, and drej? them to the range of hills called the Libyan.6 A hundred thousand men The 330 kings were mentioned... | |
| 1882 - 410 páginas
...conveyance of the stone must have occupied many hundreds of hands. Herodotus says that some of the workmen were required "to drag blocks of stone down to the...river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan." But though the stones were brought, how could they have been raised ? There appear but two... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1889 - 870 páginas
...which one man transports a single weight much too heavy for oue.J In an account of Cheops' causeway, "some were required to drag blocks of stone down to the Nile; others drew them to the range of hills called Libyan; a hundred thousand men eat bread constantly,... | |
| United States National Museum - 1889 - 884 páginas
...which one man transports a single weight much too heavy for one.J In an account of Cheops' causeway, ''some were required to drag blocks of stone down to the Nile ; others drew them to the range of hills called Libyan; a hundred thousand men eat bread constantly,... | |
| Lewis Bayles Paton - 1921 - 352 páginas
...forbade the Egyptians to offer sacrifice, compelling them instead to labour, one and all, in his service. Some were required to drag blocks of stone down to...river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan. A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three months by a fresh... | |
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