 | Philip Smith - 1871 - 620 σελίδες
...to sacrifice, compelling them instead to labour, one and all, in his service. A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three...make the causeway for the conveyance of the stones. The Pyramid itself was twenty years in building." The fairest conclusion from the absence of those... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1871 - 332 σελίδες
...service. A hundred thousand men worked constantly, and were relieved every three months by a fresh gang. It took ten years' oppression of the people to make the causeway for the conveyance of the stones. The Pyramid itself was twenty years in building." Not the least striking testimony borne by the pyramids... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 656 σελίδες
...other tools wero already in nso when the pyramids wore built.—[GW] CHAP. 124. HIS GREAT CAUSEWAY. 199 laboured constantly, and were relieved every three...years' oppression of the people to make the causeway 6 for the conveyance of the stones, a work not Upper Ethiopia. Tombs of Egyptians being seldom found... | |
 | William Long - 1876 - 302 σελίδες
...boats across the river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Lybian. A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three months by a fresh lot. In Canon Rawlinson's translation of Herodotus, and in Sir Gardner Wilkinson's " Manners and Customs... | |
 | 1884 - 672 σελίδες
...across the river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Lybian. A hundred thousand men labored constantly, and were relieved every three months by...causeway for the conveyance of the stones, a work not much inferior, in my judgment, to the pyramid itself. This causeway is five furlongs in length, ten... | |
 | Herodotus - 1889 - 560 σελίδες
...boats across the river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan. 5 A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three...causeway' for the conveyance of the stones, a work not much inferior, in calls him flicmmis or Chembes, and places seven kings between him and Klmnpsinit... | |
 | John Henry Wright - 1902 - 490 σελίδες
...across the river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan. A hundred thousand men labored constantly, and were relieved every three months by...causeway for the conveyance of the stones, a work not much inferior, in my judgment, to the pyramid itself. This causeway is five furlongs in length, ten... | |
 | Edgar James Banks - 1916 - 276 σελίδες
...boats across the river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan. A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three...causeway for the conveyance of the stones, a work not much inferior, in my judgment, to the pyramid itself. This causeway is five furlongs in length, ten... | |
 | Lewis Bayles Paton - 1921 - 356 σελίδες
...boats across the river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan. A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three...causeway for the conveyance of the stones, a work not much inferior, in my judgment, to the pyramid itself. This causeway is five furlongs in length, ten... | |
 | Lewis Bayles Paton - 1921 - 382 σελίδες
...boats across the river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan. A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three...causeway for the conveyance of the stones, a work not much inferior, in my judgment, to the pyramid itself. This causeway is five furlongs in length, ten... | |
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laboured constantly, and were relieved every three months by a fresh lot. It took ten years' oppression of the people to make the causeway* for the conveyance of the stones, a work not Upper Ethiopia. Tombs of Egyptians being seldom found in Nubia may... 
