The Gliddon Mummy-Case in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
The Gliddon Mummy-Case in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
Charles J Pickering
The book The Gliddon Mummy-Case in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution was written by author Charles J Pickering Here you can read free online of The Gliddon Mummy-Case in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Gliddon Mummy-Case in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution a good or bad book?
What reading level is The Gliddon Mummy-Case in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The two appendages of the perch are distinctly feathers, and imply the art of falconry : an art to the present day found by Layard among the Bedouins along the Euphrates. A more Southern country is indicated by the kneading-trough ; the checkered workmanship being the same as in the shallow baskets to the present day brought down the Nile, and ascertained by myself to be manufactured at the southern extreme of Arabia. The flag-shaped fan has a narrower flap than at the present day; in those obs...erved by myself at the first cataract of the Nile, and made around Mocha in Southern Arabia, of strips of leaves of the doum-palm, Hyphaene crinita.^ * Even Arab writers speak of a period when Greece was uninhabited ; and notwithstanding recent discoveries, there is yet room for doubt, whether in the days of the Egyptian king Snophru there was a human being in Europe. Seti Mienptah ruled Egypt from B. C. 139G to 136G, and his tomb at Thebes contains the hiero- glyphic sign of a northern animal, the heaver ; also the earliest figures of northern people, possibly Europeans, having egret-plumes on the head, and wearing an ox-hide bordered and banded with swan's down ; there are no traces of woven cloth.
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
User Reviews: