Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 230
cribed bythe historian; and to this he partly attributes the unexampledduration of the Egyptian monarchy. It is only doing justice to the modern Egyptians to say thatgratitude is still a distinguishing trait of their character; andthis is one of the many qualities inherited by them, for whichtheir… … •XT- pRE^^, JoiLET AND JeWELRY. We now come to the dress of the Ancients. We shall haveto consider those articles of dress used as a protection againstthe weather, and those prescribed by decency or fashion, also thecoverings of the head and the feet, the arrangement of the hairand the ornaments.…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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