| American Antiquarian Society - Mammoth Cave (Ky.) - 1820 - 478 pages
...Continent, we see, that, though their form is alike, their destination was altogether dif264 ferent. The group of pyramids 'at Geeza and at Sakhara in...to serve as the sepulchres of the illustrious dead. Nothing is more natural to men^ than to commemorate the spot where rest the ashes of those, whose memory... | |
| Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 492 pages
...though their form is alike, their destination is altogether different. The group of pyramids at Ghiza, and at Sakhara, in Egypt ; the triangular pyramid...are said to have been enclosed in the labyrinth of King Porsenna, at Clusium, were reared to serve as the sepulchres of the illustrious dead. Nothing... | |
| Josiah Conder - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 380 pages
...and Sakkara in Egypt; the triangular pyramid of the queen of the Scythians, mentioned by Diodorns; the fourteen Etruscan pyramids which are said to have been enclosed in the labyrinth of King Porsenna at Clusium; the tumulus of Alyattes at Lydia (see Modern Traveller, Syria and Asia Minor,... | |
| Thomas Francis Gordon - Indians of Mexico - 1832 - 462 pages
...one stadia high, and three in circumference, surmounted by a colossal statue; the fourteen in Etruria said to have been enclosed in the labyrinth of the king Porsenna at Clusium; were sepulchres of the illustrious dead. Those of China and Thibet, have only a few -feet of elevation.... | |
| Antiquities - 1850 - 418 pages
...though their form is alike, their destination was altogether different. The group of pyramids at Gizeh and at Sakhara in Egypt ; the triangular pyramid of...to serve as the sepulchres of the illustrious dead. Nothing is more natural to men than to commemorate the spot where rest the ashes of those whose memory... | |
| Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...though their form is alike, their destination was altogether different. The group of pyramids at Gizeh and at Sakhara in Egypt ; the triangular pyramid of...enclosed in the labyrinth of the king Porsenna, at CluBium ; were reared to serve as the sepulchres of the illustrious dead. Nothing is more natural to... | |
| Robert Stuart - Architecture - 1854 - 1272 pages
...dead. The Egyptian pyramids, the triangular pyramid of the Scythian queen, mentioned by Diodorus ; the fourteen Etruscan pyramids, which are said to have been enclosed in the labyrinth of king Porsenna at Clusium; the tumulus of Alyattes at Lydia; the sepulchres of the Scandinavian king... | |
| John Wilson - Pyramids - 1856 - 512 pages
...and Saccarah in Egypt, the triangular pyramid of the queen of the Scythians, mentioned by Diodorus, the fourteen Etruscan pyramids, which are said to have been enclosed in the labyrinth of king Porsenna at Clusium, the tumulus of Alyattes at Lydia, the sepulchres of the Scandinavian king... | |
| English periodicals - 1877 - 604 pages
...though their form is alike, their destination was altogether different. The group of pyramids of Ghizeh and at Sakhara in Egypt ; the triangular pyramid of...to serve as the sepulchres of the illustrious dead. Nothing is more natural to men than to commemorate the spot where rest the ashes of those whose memory... | |
| Belgravia - 1877 - 558 pages
...though their form is alike, their destination was altogether different. The group of pyramids of Ghizeh and at Sakhara in Egypt ; the triangular pyramid of...to serve as the sepulchres of the illustrious dead. Nothing is more natural to men than to commemorate the spot where rest the ashas of those whose memory... | |
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