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"A Descent into Egypt" by Algernon Blackwood
0:00:00 Chapter 1
0:08:04 Chapter 2
0:28:46 Chapter 3
0:53:18 Chapter 4
1:10:50 Chapter 5
1:25:05 Chapter 6
1:33:57 Chapter 7
1:55:03 Chapter 8
2:11:10 Chapter 9
2:21:01 Chapter 10
2:31:27 Chapter 11
2:38:39 Chapter 12
2:54:19 Chapter 13
3:13:50 Chapter 14
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Published in 1914
1 league = 3 miles
Helouan: a suburb south of Cairo.
Sakkhâra: an Egyptian village that contains burial grounds of ancient Egyptian royalty. It is the necropolis for the ancient capital city of Memphis
"A Modern Reconstruction of Sun-worship in Ancient Egypt": This appears to be a fictional work. Presumably Moleson is also fictional.
Twin Colossi: the Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis.
Denderah: a town a bit north of Luxor and home to the notable Dendera Temple complex, including the Temple of Hathor (built in the 1st century BC), which once housed the Dendera zodiac
Edfu: Another ancient town, this one a bit south of Luxor, noted for its Temple of Horus
Abou Simbel: A village almost at the border with Sudan, on Lake Nasser. It is home to two rock-cut temples constructed during the reign of Ramesses II, and the temples feature the iconic reliefs of the pharaoh
Enet-te-ntōrē: Enet of the Goddess (Hathor), where 'Enet' is the name of a city
Wadi Gerraui: today this would be called Wadi el-Garawi (Qarawi) (notable for its Sadd el-Kafara, a masonry embankment dam), 10 km southeast of Helwan.
Mokattam Hills: an Eastern Desert plateau as well as the district built over it in the Southern Area of Cairo
Fayum: today spelled Faiyum, a city in central Egypt built around the Faiyum Oasis. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities.
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The pictures used are:
Ch 1: "Britain Before the First World War: Racegoers at Royal Ascot before the First World war"
Ch 2: view from the Pyramids View Inn
Ch 3: sunrise at the Valley of Whales in Egypt's Eastern Desert, by Amr.fouad, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)
Ch 4: "Panorama of the Great Sphinx of Giza, Khafre's Pyramid and Pyramid of Cheops." by kallerna, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)
Ch 5: "Sphinx et pyramide Chefren" by one P. Dittrich, no later than 1918 (Dittrich's year of death)
Ch 6: photo of the Valley of the Tomb of Kings at Thebes, by Douglas Sladen, from the book "Queer Things About Egypt." J.B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia and Hurst & Blackett, Limited: London, 1911
Ch 7: Colosses de Memnon, 19th century. Albumen silver photograph, image/sheet: 8 1/16 x 10 3/8 in. (20.5 x 26.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Alan Schlussel, 86.250.23, by Antonio Beato
Ch 8: Colossi of Memnon, West Bank, Luxor by Gabriel Indurskis, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)
Ch 9: Egypt: the "statues of Memnon". Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection
Ch 10: "The Colossal Pair, Thebes" (1856) by Frank Dillon
Ch 11: the Entrance Hall to the Mena House Hotel, circa 1900
Ch 12: Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti praying to the sun-god Aten
Ch 13: "Close view of the dam [Sadd el-Kafara] from upstream. Its construction elements (core, rock fill and layers of blocks) are visible", by Jean-Luc Frerotte
Ch 14: "Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis #1" by Fasail32, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/43816/pg43816-images.html#IV
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