A Selection of Books on the East: In the Same Series and Similarly Illustrated; British North Borneo, Burma, Ceylon, China, Delhi, Egypt, Holy Land, India, India History of India Homes of Japan, Japan History of Java, Kashmir, Korea, Siam
Excerpt from A Selection of Books on the East: In the Same Series and Similarly Illustrated; British North Borneo, Burma, Ceylon, China, Delhi, Egypt, Holy Land, India, India History of India Homes of Japan, Japan History of Java, Kashmir, Korea, Siam The Pyramids, for instance, those huge piles that are still the wonder of the world, were far older than any building now standing in Europe, before Joseph was sold to be a slave in Potiphar's house. Hundreds upon hundreds of years before anyone had ever heard of the Greeks ...
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Excerpt from A Selection of Books on the East: In the Same Series and Similarly Illustrated; British North Borneo, Burma, Ceylon, China, Delhi, Egypt, Holy Land, India, India History of India Homes of Japan, Japan History of Java, Kashmir, Korea, Siam The Pyramids, for instance, those huge piles that are still the wonder of the world, were far older than any building now standing in Europe, before Joseph was sold to be a slave in Potiphar's house. Hundreds upon hundreds of years before anyone had ever heard of the Greeks and the Romans, there were great Kings reigning in Egypt, sending out their armies to conquer Syria and the Soudan, and their ships to explore the unknown southern seas, and wise men were writing books which we can still read. When Britain was a wild, unknown island, inhabited only by savages as fierce and untaught as the South Sea Islanders, Egypt was a great and highly civilized country, full of great cities, with noble palaces and temples, and its people were wise and learned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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