The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 57National Geographic Society, 1930 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 95
... ancient Ur , an early fore- runner of modern Baghdad and once the capital of the greatest empire in the middle East . We shall imagine , too , that we have at last made our painful way across the sandy mounds that bury the ancient ruins ...
... ancient Ur , an early fore- runner of modern Baghdad and once the capital of the greatest empire in the middle East . We shall imagine , too , that we have at last made our painful way across the sandy mounds that bury the ancient ruins ...
Page 109
... ancient world . Records of eclipses and the interclash of nations , attested from different and often rival sources , have enabled the mod- ern scholar to check the tables of his ancient predecessor , and though the gaps predynastic ...
... ancient world . Records of eclipses and the interclash of nations , attested from different and often rival sources , have enabled the mod- ern scholar to check the tables of his ancient predecessor , and though the gaps predynastic ...
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... ancient Barca ac- quired fame as charioteers . Many of the lions used in the arenas of Rome were brought from the Libian hinterland . There are two attractive postage stamps in modern Libia . One portrays Isis , god- dess of the ancient ...
... ancient Barca ac- quired fame as charioteers . Many of the lions used in the arenas of Rome were brought from the Libian hinterland . There are two attractive postage stamps in modern Libia . One portrays Isis , god- dess of the ancient ...
Contents
An Expedition on the ChinaTibet Frontier to | 131 |
Sumatra A Ribbon of Color on the Equator 25 illustrations in color from autochromes | 186 |
Cirenaica | 325 |
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