Egypt : handbook for travellers / edited by K. Baedeker.

Date:
1885-1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Egypt : handbook for travellers / edited by K. Baedeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Route page From Maliallet Ruh to Zifteh 445 From Mahallet Ruh to Desuk 445 d. Sa'is 445 e. Rosetta 447 From Alexandria to Rosetta. Canopus 447 From DamanMr to Rosetta 448 The Rosetta Stone 450 f. San (Tanis) 451 From Abu Shekuk or Abu Kebir to Tanis 451 From Port Sarid to Tanis. The Ancient Tennis .... 452 From Tanis to Damietta, Mansfira, or Sinbelawin. . . . 452 9. The Fayum 456 Situation and History of the Fayum 456 Excursions from Medinet el-Fayum 459 Hawara el-Kebir, the Pyramid of Hawara, and the Labyrinth 459 Lake Moeris. Circuit of the old bed of the Lake .... 462 Birket el-Kurun and Kasr Karun 465 Pyramid and Mastaba of Medum 467 Atfih (Aphroditopolis). Ahnas el-Medineh (Herakleopolis) 469 Beni-Suef. Monasteries of SS. Anthony and Paul .... 470 10. The Peninsula of Sinai 470 Preparations. Contract with Dragoman. Camels, etc. . . 470 Routes. Sea-Voyage to Tur 473 Formation of the Peninsula. Group of Mt. Sinai .... 477 Inhabitants ■ 478 History 479 Exodus of the Israelites 481 From Suez to Mt. Sinai hy Maghara and Wadi Firan. . 485 Stations of the Israelites in the Desert, and Number of the Emigrants 486 The Jebel Hammam Farfun 488 Mines of Maghara 491 The Wadi Maghara a station of the Israelites 493 Sinaitic Inscriptions 493 The Oasis of Firan 495 Rephidim, and the Biblical Narrative , . 496 Mt. Serbal 497 Monastery of St. Catharine on Mt. Sinai 503 Church of the Transfiguration. Chapel of the Burning Bush. Mosque. Library. Cemetery. Garden 506-509 The Jebel Musa and Ras es-Safsaf 510 The Jebel Frera. 513 The Wadi el-Leja. Der el-Arbarin 514 The Jebel Katherin 514 The Wadi SebaTyeh 515 The Jebel Umm Shomar 515 Route to Mt. Sinai via Tur 515 1. Through the Wadi es-Sleh 517 2. Through the Wadi Hebran 518 From the Monastery of Mt. Sinai to rAkaba 519 From fAkaba to Petra 520 Return-Route from the Monastery of Mt. Sinai to Suez through the Wadi esh-Shekh and via Sarbut el-Khadem 520 Tndex 525