Brown, Robert, 1842-1895, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Cassell · leaf 19
lettered tablets which bear witness to a vanished race. High up the Nile valley we are seldom out of sight of the gigantic monuments of a people who were so far advanced in culture that, though their civilisation might not be as lolty as that of Greece and Rome, it was in many respects even more… … PTOLEMY’S MAP OF AFRICA. still remembered as the “ Rumi ” — or Romans. A few cisterns in which a village of Avretched Arabs stable their flocks — or themselves — are about all African that remain of the famous capital of Carthage. But broken arches, civilisation ruined amphitheatres, gatetvays…
Africa -- Discovery and exploration · Africa -- Colonization
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