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Pyramids at Gîza, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: 1 June 1848Reference: 33290iPart of: Egypt and Nubia- Pictures
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Pyramids at Gîza, seen from the banks of the Nile, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: [1846]Reference: 31791iPart of: Egypt and Nubia- Pictures
The Sphinx and the Pyramids. Watercolour by A.O. Lamplough, 1919.
Lamplough, A. O. (Augustus O.)Date: 1919Reference: 45056i- Pictures
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The Pyramids of Dahshoor, Egypt: view from the south. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1858.
Frith, Francis.Date: 1858Reference: 568194i- Pictures
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The Pyramids of Dahshoor, Egypt: view from the east. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1858.
Frith, Francis.Date: 1858Reference: 568199i- Pictures
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The Pyramids of Sakkarah, Egypt: view from the north east. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1858.
Frith, Francis.Date: 1858Reference: 568201i- Archives and manuscripts
Photograph of Lieutenant J.F. Ford and Bugler J.F. Ford at the Pyramids, Gizah, Egypt
Date: 1915Reference: RAMC/1224/2Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Pictures
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The Second Pyramid (one of the Pyramids of Giza), Egypt: view from the south east. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1858.
Frith, Francis.Date: 1858Reference: 568222i- Books
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A brief discourse concerning the lawfulness of worshipping God by the common-prayer. In answer to the objections against common-prayer worship. The sixth edition. With a postscript, relating to Mr. Mather's remarks on G. Keith's sermon preached at Boston in New-England.
Williams, John, 1636?-1709.Date: 1704- Books
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Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt / [John Greaves].
Greaves, John, 1602-1652.Date: 1646- Books
Bandages, bedpans, pills & stethoscopes : a history of all things medical in Pyramid Hill and District.
Date: [2009?]- Pictures
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Egypt: the pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.
Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich, 1808-1894.Date: [1878]Reference: 40357iPart of: Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich- Books
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Suada Anglicana: or, a short view of rhetoric. For the use of schools. By Richard Spencer of Cobham.
Spencer, Richard, of Cobham.Date: 1704- Books
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Nekrokedeia: or, the art of embalming; wherein is shewn the right of burial, and funeral ceremonies, especially that of preserving bodies after the Egyptian method. Together With An Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of their Embalming. AS Also A Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres, and other curious Observations any ways relating to the Physiology and Knowledge of this Art. In three letters. Illustrated with a map and fourteen sculptures. By Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon.
Greenhill, Thomas, 1680-1740?.Date: Printed in the Year, MDCCV. [1705]- Books
Identification of royal skeletal remains from Egyptian pyramids / Eugen Strouhal [and others].
Date: [date of publication not identified]- Books
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The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd / By Mr. John Greaves ... As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in answer to certain letters, & c.
Greaves, John, 1602-1652.Date: 1745- Books
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Plain trigonometry rendered easy and familiar, by calculations in arithmetick only: With Its Application and Use In ascertaining all Kinds of Heights, Depths, and Distances, In The Heavens, as well as on the Earth and Seas; Whether Of Towers, Forts, Trees, Pyramids, Columns, Wells, Ships, Hills, Clouds, Thunder and Lightning, Atmosphere, Sun, Moon, Mountains in the Moon, Shadows of Earth and Moon, Beginning and End of Eclipses, &c. In which is also shewn, A Curious Trigonometrical Method of discovering the Places where Bees hive in large Woods, in order to obtain, more readily, the salutary Produce of those little Insects. By the Rev. Mr. Turner, later of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford, Author of The View of the Earth;-View of the Heavens;-System of Gauging; and Chronologer Perpetual.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 1724-1791.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The history of the life and actions of Alexander the great. From the time of his birth, to that of his death, who afterwards was Embalmed. Translated from the French of Monsieur de Vaugelas: Which Work he was above Thirty Years in perfecting. To which is prefixed, an account of the antient Egyptians; the Grandeur of their Publick Buildings; Obelisks, Pyramids, Lake of Moeris, the Nile, the famous Canal between the Red-Sea, and the Mediterranean. Also the Manners, Customs, Laws, Learning and Government of the Egyptians. Likewise Their Manner of treating dead Bodies; Method of Embalming; and particular Way of trying and judging Persons after their Death. With seven large and curious Cuts of Egyptian Mummies, exactly drawn; with their Hieroglyphic Characters, interpreted and explained.
Curtius Rufus, Quintus.Date: [1755?]- Books
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Travels through Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and the Holy-Land. Containing, among many other curious Particulars, I. A Description of Egypt, the River Nile, Pyramids, &c. II. A Description of Turkey, and of its Provinces and Islands. III. A Description of Syria, the Ruins of Palmyra, the Desarts of Arabia, &c. IV. A Description of the Holy-Land: Particularly, of Jerusalem, and the Holy Places; of Jericho, Jordan, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, &c. V. The Manners, Customs, Government and Trade of the Egyptians, Turks, Tartars, and Arabs. VI. Their Religions, Genius, Tempers, Persons, Habits, Diversions, Exercises, Buildings, Curiosities, &c. Interspers'd with many judicious observations. By an English merchant. With Explanatory, Theological, Historical, Geographical and Miscellaneous notes, by a gentleman of Oxford.
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with The Explanation of divers Lines therein heretofore measur'd. By Mr. John Greaves. Astronomy Professor at Oxford. As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in Answer to certain Letters, &c.
Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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An appendix to the Elements of Euclid, in seven books. Containing forty-two moveable schemes for forming the various kinds of solids, and their sections, by which the Doctrine of Solids in the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Fifteenth Books of Euclid is illustrated, and rendered more easy to Learners than heretofore. Book I. Contains the Five regular Solids. II. Shews the Inscription and Circumscription thereof, as set forth in the Fifteenth Book of the Elements. III. Exhibits a great Variety of irregular Solids. IV. Contains sundry Sorts of Prisms. V. Various Kinds of Pyramids, and Frustrums thereof. VI. Some difficult Propositions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Books. Vii. The Cone and its several Sections. Second edition. By John Lodge Cowley, F. R. S. Professor of Mathematicks in the Royal Academy at Woolwich.
Cowley, John Lodge, 1719-1797.Date: [1765?]- Pictures
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Above, the shell of a purpura; below, three sea shells and three diagrams of pyramids. Etching by T. Jefferys.
Reference: 41850i- Archives and manuscripts
Narratives of visits to Alexandria, Cairo and the pyramids, while Bracey was returning from China on his second voyage.
Date: 1874Reference: MS.5290Part of: Bracey, Herbert Richard (c. 1849-1901), P.&O. Company ship's surgeon- Pictures
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The spectacle fly and the Egyptian jerboa; pyramids in the background. Etching by J. Pass, 1803, after G. Edwards.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773.Date: 6 June 1803Reference: 578666i- Pictures
Boat on the river Nile looking towards the pyramids at Saqqâra and Dahshûr, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: [1846]Reference: 31654iPart of: Egypt and Nubia