The treasury of ancient Egypt; miscellaneous chapters on ancient Egyptian history and archæology (1911)
Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934 · Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 339
derations, whether itwas right or not to expend the extra sum from thetaxes. The answer was plain enough. They wereof opinion that the temples would not be appreci-ably damaged by their flooding. They argued, veryjustly, that the buildings would be under waterfor only five months in each year, and… … > o yX 1) ID H Pl. XXV. The Flooding of Lower Nubia. 269 inconveniences on the one hand against the totalloss of the temples on the other. It was simplyneedful to ask whether the temporary and ap-parently harmless inundation of the ruins eachyear was worth avoiding at the cost of severalmillions…
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