This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...hall, now constructed Hatshepsut's temple. Whether her father himself, who had carved a path of conquest across Asia to the Euphrates and had established firmly the Egyptian Empire, had been later in the posi Breasted tion of King Lear, listening to first one and then another of his children, who shall ever say? Though ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...hall, now constructed Hatshepsut's temple. Whether her father himself, who had carved a path of conquest across Asia to the Euphrates and had established firmly the Egyptian Empire, had been later in the posi Breasted tion of King Lear, listening to first one and then another of his children, who shall ever say? Though he chiseled out her name in her temple, Hatshepsut erected her Karnak obelisks to him, and made one tomb for him and for herself. But the standard of filial expression in Egypt was high. That tallest obelisk rising over the wreckage is hers--the top of the other lies here. On that ninety-foot page is inscribed, as a charming American woman expressed it, the first "woman's postscript." For writ large down the shaft is the story of how Hatshepsut raises it to the honor and glory of her father, the great Thutmose I; and at the bottom is the naive addition, "And to my honor and glory too." The huge blocks had been brought on a barge from Assouan and there were well-nigh a thousand rowers in the boats which drew them to Thebes. The tops were covered with electrum, whose shining, lighted by the rays of the Sun-god, could be seen from afar. One was supposed to flood the North, or Lower Egypt, and the other, the South, with light. No wonder the traders who now filled the country spread the glories of Hatshepsut over Syria. Well might she have sung: "The thousand rowers bring my obelisks; The wandering Bedoui carry my fame." Strangely enough the Queen set up these shafts in this hall; wrecking it in the process, for the roof had to be broken and many of the columns destroyed. Though in her father's name, their shining overthrew her father's hall, the hall in which he himself had been overthrown by Thutmose III; and they c...
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