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Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt (1881)

Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905), Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924), Fenn, Harry (1838-1911) · D. Appleton · leaf 619

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General view of Philae, taken from Bibbeh. In the great temple in the centre of the view the sacred college still celebrated the mysteries of Isis and Osiris so late as A.D. 443, and thus for sixty-four years resisted the forcible conversion of Egypt to Christianity which followed the edict of…

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