Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé

by F. Barham Zincke

INDEX.

• Abraham, his genealogy, [29].
• At the Pyramids, [83].
• At Heliopolis, [119].
• Bargaining with Ephron, [337]
• Abydos, [97-104].
• Ride to, [98].
• Its Palace and Temple, [100];
• its Tablet, [101].
• Antiquity of its civilisation, [102-104]
• Acacia, [411]
• Achmed and Hodge, [396-401]
• Agriculture, Egyptian, favoured early civilization, [13-15].
• Syrian, [245]
• Alexandria, [448-457]
• Alkali, Egyptians used, in washing, [367]
• Amasis, [277]
• Amenemha III., his register of risings of the Nile, [5], [114].
• Engineered Lake Mœris, [114]
• American, an, on the Pyramids, [85].
• The ⸺ pig, [433]
• Amunoph, [124].
• His Colossus, [150]
• Apries, or Pharaoh Hophra, [277]
• Arabs sleep in the open air, [99].
• Truthfulness and honesty of, [176].
• Superstitions, [359-364]
• Arch, date of the, in Egypt, [142].
• Why not used, [294].
• Date of the pointed, [464]
• Art, style of Egyptian, [36]
• Arts, antiquity of useful, [44]
• Aryan ancestors of Egyptians might have come from the Persian Gulf, [38].
• Date, [40].
• Their belief in a future state, [35], [195]
• Ashdod, siege of, [275]
• Ass, the, [424]
• Assassef, [151]
• Assyrian Dynasty at Bubastis, [271].
• They overrun Egypt, [272]
• Assouan, Governor of, [168].
• Camel-riding at, [421]
• Astronomer Royal for Scotland on the Pyramids, [63], [65]
• Awe, its place in religion of Egypt, [127]
• Backsheesh, [45-51]
• Bahr Jusuf, [103], [106], [475]
• Bargaining, [337], [469]
• Basques, possible origin of, [40], [44]
• ‘Beginning’ of 1st Ch. of Genesis, [264]
• Belief, travel and, [244-256]
• Belzoni, [138]
• Benihassan, [173]
• Bethany, girl of, [47-49]
• Bethlehem, women of, [50]
• Birds in Egypt, [436-440]
• Birket el Keiroon, [106], [111], [112]
• Bitter Lakes, [486]
• Bottled-up labour, Capital is, [59]
• Boulak Museum, wooden statue in, [72-74].
• Chephren’s statue in, [74]
• Brotherhood, doctrine of, [318].
• Overthrew Egyptianism, [320].
• Its subsequent history, [322]
• Bubastis, [270].
• Festival of, [278].
• Canal of, [473], [475]
• Buffalo, the, [433]
• Builders, Orientals great, [467]
• Buildings, cause of disappearance of, [77].
• Destruction of, in Egypt, [79].
• In the Delta, [266-289].
• Preservation of, in Upper Egypt, [290-298].
• Why large, and constructed of large stones, [293]
• Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ [190]
• Cairo, [458-471]
• Caliphs, tombs of the, [467]
• Camel, [417-423]
• Canalization of the Isthmus, [472-493]
• Capital, what ⸺ is, and how it acts, [59].
• What it will do for the East, [394]
• Caste, origin of, [34].
• How used by the Egyptians, [311].
• Survey of the phenomena of, [332-336]
• Christianity has no written law, [211], [213], [215], [217], [220], [229], [233], [318].
• Why ⸺ triumphed in Egypt, [320].
• Why ⸺ failed, [321].
• Was a protest, [509].
• What it dealt with, [516]
• Chronology, early, [75], [81]
• Church and State, [514].
• Its relation to religion, [515].
• Its conflicts with the State, [516].
• Originally included the State, [517].
• Its usurpations stopped, [519].
• Who look to the, for the education of the people, [525].
• Its inability to educate, [526].
• Its sphere, [528].
• What it should teach, [532]
• Civilization, early hindrances to, [13].
• What it was before the date of the Pyramids, [52-56].
• Anterior to Abydos, [102]
• Cleanliness, Oriental, [365-369]
• Cleopatra, [164], [286].
• Needle of, [455]
• Climates, Egypt has the ⸺ of two zones, [15]
• Clothes pawned returned at sunset, [340]
• Colchis, Egyptian colony at, [160]
• Colossus of Memnon, [150]
• Communications easy in Egypt, [13].
• In direction of latitude, [14]
• Conclusion, [494-540]
• Concrete, early thought, [259]
• Constantinople, [492]
• Contemporaneous, Egyptian documents, [94], [101]
• Copts at Thebes, [148]
• Cosmogony, Mosaic, how to be taken, [261]
• Crabs, their business, [145]
• Criticism, Biblical, [82], [257]
• Crocodiles, why worshipped, [109].
• The last killed below the Cataract, [435]
• Custom, persistency of, [337].
• Change of, an European characteristic, [340]
• Darius completes the Canal to the Red Sea, [477]
• ‘Day’ of the 1st Ch. of Genesis, [263]
• Dead, Book of the, [186]
• Deceased, the, [103]
• Della, its dynasties, [266-284].
• Overthrow and disappearance of its monuments, [266-289]
• Dendera, [286]
• Despotism, how nature aided, in Egypt, [18-20].
• How formerly checked, [21]
• Dish, dipping in the, [340]
• Divorce, [378], [383]
• Doctrine differs from idea, [193]
• Dodecarchs, connexion of, with Labyrinth, [115]
• Dog, the, [428]
• Dôm Palm, [413]
• Donkey-boys, [170-176]
• East, can anything be done for the? [389-395]
• Edfou, [285]
• Education, the, which the State should undertake, [524]
• Egypt, how formed, [1-9].
• Its agriculture made civilization possible, [13].
• Has two climates, [15].
• Its configuration and agriculture aided despotism, [12-20].
• What hope for modern, [21].
• Antiquity of its civilization, [26].
• Its relation to Israel, [239].
• Its prosperity under Amasis, [277].
• What its history teaches, [536]
• Egyptians, how their character affected by nature, [12-20].
• Hard lot of modern, [22-24].
• Not mainly African, or Semitic, [27].
• Mixed Aryan and Ethiopian, [32].
• Their style of art, [36].
• Aptitude for science and organization, [37].
• Might have arrived by the Red Sea, [38].
• Not Turanian, [41].
• Resembled the Japanese, [42-44].
• Their belief in a future life, [182-192].
• Their wisdom and its fall, [299-322]
• England, how want of wood in Egypt affects, [408].
• Advantage of the Canal to, [491]
• English thought practical, [120-123].
• Language in Egypt, [171]
• Equus, why not Latin for horse, [263]
• Esbekeyeh, [464]
• Esné, [287]
• Established Churches, [214]
• Ethiopians, connexion with Egypt, [33].
• Why irreproachable, [162 (note)]
• Etruscans, possible origin of, [40], [44]
• Evil eye, [360-363]
• Exclusiveness, national, [312].
• Abrogation of, [318]
• Exodus, date of, [474]
• Faioum, [105-116].
• Remoteness of its reclamation, [105].
• How reclaimed, [106-112].
• Why crocodiles were worshipped in, [109]
• Fellah, his hard case, [22]
• Festivals, at Bubastis, [278].
• At Sais, [279]
• Finns, possible origin of, [40], [44]
• Free trade and independence, [43]
• French policy in Egypt, [480]
• Fuel, how manufactured in Egypt, [407]
• Future life, Egyptian belief in, [35].
• Whence derived, [182].
• Basis of Egyptian civilization, [184].
• Why not a doctrine of the Mosaic Dispensation, [193-243].
• Why necessary for Christianity, [211-220].
• Why Moses could not have taught it, [221].
• Logical basis of the doctrine, [238].
• Buddhist doctrine of, [240].
• Jewish morality unsupported by, [240], [500]
• Gardening in Egypt, [414-416]
• Genesis, 1st Ch. of, [261-265]
• Geese, ancient and modern, [438]
• Germanicus at Thebes, [164-167], [502]
• Girl of Bethany, [47-49].
• At Thebes, [172].
• At Benihassan, [173]
• Goats, [434]
• Gods, materials from which ⸺ were made, [290]
• Granite, why used, [267]
• Greece compared with Egypt, [501].
• What it achieved, [539]
• Greeks keep pigs in the East, [431], [432]
• Hareem, the atmosphere of the, [387]
• Harrow, my young friend late from, [47], [51], [87], [91]
• Harvests, Egypt has two, [15]
• Hebrew Scriptures not primarily historical, [81-84].
• Their chronology, [81].
• Why ⸺ have no doctrine of a future life, [193-243].
• How to be interpreted, [257].
• Right of interpretation, [259]
• Heliopolis, [117-123].
• The Holy Family at, [117].
• The University of Egypt, [119].
• Obelisk of, [119]
• Herodotus upon the formation of Egypt, [3].
• Mentions a register of risings of the Nile, [5].
• His account of Lake Mœris explained, [110].
• Of Egyptian colony in Colchis, [160].
• What he says of Bubastis, [270].
• Of the Egypt of Amasis, [277].
• Of Necho’s circumnavigation, [274].
• Of feasts of Bubastis and Sais, [278]
• Herod’s temple and palace, [246]
• Hippopotamus, [435]
• Hodge compared with Achmed, [396-401]
• Homer acquainted with the greatness of Thebes, [124].
• Why ⸺ sends the gods to the irreproachable Ethiopians, [160-162].
• Mentions the Island of Pharos, [453]
• Homœopathy, [364]
• Hophra, or Apries, [276]
• Horse, the, in Egypt, [426]
• Houriism, [381-388]
• Ideas make men and women, [385].
• Change slowly, [519]
• Imagination, its relation to history and religion, [461]
• Immortality, how the working of society confirmed the idea of, [17].
• How the river and the sun, [18].
• How Christ brought it to light, [211-234].
• Why mankind not immortal, [243 (note)]
• Insects in Egypt, [443]
• Instincts, moral sentiments are, [306].
• What are ⸺, [308].
• Egyptian study of, [310]
• Interpretation, historical method of, [257-265]
• Isaiah, why ⸺ anticipated a new earth, [243 (note)]
• Iseum, [280]
• Ismailia, [483]
• Israel compared with Egypt, [499].
• What it achieved, [539]
• Israelites, who they were, [29].
• Their ethnology, [199].
• Not unimaginative, [204].
• Their moral heroism, [241].
• When ⸺ built Pithom and Ramses, [474]
• Jacob’s deception, [250]
• Japan, Egypt compared to, [42-44]
• Jerusalem, aspect of the city, [246].
• Only a Bible word, [256].
• Pilgrims at, [357].
• Camels at, [419]
• Jesus Christ, the situation to which His teaching was addressed, [207].
• What He taught, [210-220].
• Argumentative position of, [216], [229].
• Why He taught a future life, [229].
• Why He impugned the doctrine of immediate judgments, [239].
• His doctrine, in part, a protest, [509]
• Jews, a mixed people, [29], [199].
• Moral heroism of, [241].
• Why not proselytisers, [243 (note)]
• Jezebel’s last toilet, [338]
• Joseph, story of, [338]
• Josiah defeated by Necho, [276]
• Kagabu, [339]
• Karnak, [125-132].
• Hypostyle hall of, [129]
• Kêf, [95]
• Koran, [345]
• Labour, why squandered on Pyramids and Temples, [57-63]
• Labourer, English, why held to labour all the year round, [399]
• Labyrinth, [114-116]
• Lamps, Feast of, [279]
• Landlordism Eg., [328-331]
• Language, morality compared to, [242]
• Laps, possible origin of, [40], [44]
• Law, Semitic idea of, [31].
• Separation of Municipal from Religion, [212-216].
• General laws the same as particular Providence, [235]
• Legislatures, Orientals have no, [347], [371]
• Letters, discovery of, [184].
• Results, [185], [391]
• Liberty, Oriental systems extinguish, [372]
• Library of Rameses, [146].
• Of Alexandria, [455]
• Light, Symbol of the Divine Spirit, [280]
• Literature, effects of, [390-392].
• Alexandrian, [451]
• Livingstone, [2]
• London, a contemplation of, [506], [534]
• Luncheon at the Pyramids, [92-96]
• Luxor, [124]
• Luxury, Oriental, [383]
• Mad, are all Orientals, [341]
• Mandeville, his account of the Pyramids, [64-66]
• Marriages, Oriental, [338], [374].
• Why early in the East, [378]
• Master-mind, the, [122]
• Medinet Haboo, [148]
• Memnon, [150]
• Mendes, [266]
• Metaphysical solutions of physical problems, [3]
• Metaphysics, Hebrew, [261].
• Early, [232]
• Mississippi compared with the Amazon, [15]
• Modern societies, prospects of, [540]
• Mœris, Lake, [108].
• Abundance of fish, [110].
• Herodotus’ account of, [110]
• Mohamed, [66], [342]
• Mohamed Adamanhoury, [470]
• Money not known at date of the Pyramids, [58]
• Monogamists, early Egyptians were, [37].
• Nature made us, [379]
• Monuments, why disappeared in the Delta, [266-289].
• Why not in Upper Egypt, [285-289].
• Rationale of, [290-298]
• Moral being is a growth, [253].
• Moral sentiments instincts, [306-310].
• Aims of society must be, [536]
• Morality not dependent on future life, [240].
• How congenital, [242].
• Grounds of, [242].
• Progressive, [251].
• What should be taught by the State, [524].
• What by the Church, [532]
• Moses, his wife, [168].
• Aim of his legislation, [201].
• First historical protestant, [509]
• Mosks of Omar, [246].
• Of Cairo, [464].
• Of Ebn e’ Tooloon, [464].
• Of Hassam, [465].
• Of El Azar, [466]
• Mosquitoes, [443]
• Mounds of old cities, [404]
• Mouské, [461]
• Municipal religion when impossible, [227]
• Nature, how ⸺ affected the Egyptians, [12-20].
• What it presented to the Egyptians, [16].
• Variety of, [495].
• Intelligence seen in, [496]
• Necho, extends the Canal to the Bitter Lakes, [273].
• Circumnavigates Africa, [274].
• His Asiatic campaign, [275].
• Extends the Canal of Rameses, [477].
• Necropolis of Pyramid era, [91-95].
• Of Thebes, [133-143]
• Nile, how the, formed Egypt, [1-9].
• Three colours of its water, [9].
• Contrast of past and present value of its work, [10].
• Facilities for up and down traffic, [14].
• Important that it flows in the direction of latitude, [14]
• Norfolk Island Pine, [415]
• Obelisk of Heliopolis, [119].
• Of Luxor, [125].
• Of Alexandria, [281], [455].
• Were books, [298]
• Omar destroys the library of Alexandria, [456].
• Re-opens canal to Red Sea, [479]
• Orientals, are they mad? [341].
• Intellectual inferiority of, accounted for, [343]
• Originality of the Egyptians, [153]
• Osiris, temple of, at Abydos, [101].
• Mysteries of his sufferings, [271]
• Ositarsen, first name at Karnak, [130].
• At Tanis, [267]
• Ox, the, [434]
• Palace of Westminster, what it suggests, [512], [514]
• Palm-trees, tax on, [23].
• Character of, [110]
• Paradise, Hebrew, [205].
• Mahomedan, [381]
• Parliament, history of the English, [513]
• Paul, St., what he taught, [220]
• Pearls, real, [121]
• Pelicans, [437]
• Persian invasion, [163]
• Petamenap, his tomb, [141]
• Pharos, [453]
• Philæ, Great Pyramid looks down on, [70].
• Ride to, [421]
• Physical Geography, bearing of, on national history, [12]
• Pigeons in Egypt, [437]
• Pilgrimage, [355-358]
• Pilgrims, Greek and Latin, at Jerusalem, [357]
• Pithom, [473]
• Platte, resemblance of valley of, to Egypt, [4]
• Pointed Arch, [464]
• Polygamy, [374-380].
• The polygamic region, [376]
• Population, Commerce supports, [245]
• Pork, why forbidden in the East, [433]
• Port Saïd, [482]
• Post-Pharaohnic temples, [285-289]
• Prayer, Oriental, what it is, [349].
• Connexion of, with morality, [351].
• Variation in its object, [352].
• Repetitions in, [354].
• Women not taught, [374]
• Printing-press, its use to the East, [392]
• Progress, in arts, [137].
• In religion, [231].
• In moral being, [253].
• Historical progress, [325].
• Ordained by God, [233].
• Rendered possible by letters, [184], [392]
• Property, value of security for, [389].
• Exists amongst animals, [429]
• Prophets, the Hebrew, have no doctrine of a future life, [194].
• Anti-Egyptian policy of, [276].
• Their hopefulness, [315].
• Their self-devotion, [500]
• Protestant, the first, [509]
• Providence, identity of particular, and general laws, [235]
• Psalm, the 109th, [250]
• Psammetichus, [272]
• Ptolemy Philadelphus re-opens the canal to the Red Sea, [478]
• Pyramids, contemporary civilization implied by, [52-56].
• Why labour was squandered on, [57-63].
• Why so formed, [63-69].
• Sir J. Mandeville’s account of, [64-67].
• Inscriptions on the Great, [65].
• Great Pyramid higher than the Cataract of Philæ, [70].
• Ascent of Great Pyramid, [85-91].
• Luncheon at, [92-96].
• Necropolis of Pyramid era, [94-95]
• Railway, a mid-European, [492]
• Rameseum, [146]
• Rameses II. at Luxor and Karnak, [125].
• His temple-palace, [145], [146].
• His library, [146].
• His great expedition, [154-163].
• His inscription in Syria, [162].
• Cut the Pithom-Ramses Canal, [473]
• Rameses III., his tomb, [135].
• His temple-palace, [148]
• Ramses, city of, [473]
• Rationale of the monuments, [290-298]
• Register of Nile risings, [5], [114]
• Religion, Aryan character of that of Egypt, [27], [35].
• Aim of that delivered by Moses, [201].
• A municipal, when impossible, [227].
• A chapter in its history, [231].
• Same as truth, [237].
• Its great rôle in Egypt, [299].
• Why it did not spread, [302].
• Its aims moral, [303].
• Why it fell, [320].
• Reverts in Egypt to Theocracy, [321].
• An organism of thought, [341].
• A distinction between Christianity and Mahomedanism, [342].
• What it is, [515].
• Its aims, [532]
• Republicans, why Orientals are not, [370-373].
• Conditions disposing them to be, [370]
• Ritualists, where those, get their ideas, [465]
• Rome compared with Egypt, [502].
• What it achieved, [539]
• Rooks, [439]
• Sais, its temple, [271].
• Connexion with the Greeks, [271].
• Festival of, [279]
• Sakia, [446]
• Sandstone-buildings long-lived, [289]
• Saul’s sons hanged, [250]
• Scarabs, [177-181]
• Scene, the, in England, [495].
• Must be associated with man, [496].
• In Egypt, [498].
• The chief ⸺ in England, [506]
• Science, Egyptian aptitude for, [37]
• Scotchman’s opinion of Heliopolis, [120]
• Sebennytus, [280]
• Secession of military caste, [273]
• Semites, their monotheistic tendency, [30].
• Their view of law, [31].
• Not unimaginative, [204]
• Semnéh, Nile registration at, [5]
• Serpent-charming, [340]
• Sesortosis not first dresser of stone, [72-81]
• Sethos, his hypostyle hall, [129].
• His tomb, [134], [138].
• His temple-palace, [147]
• Shadoof, [445]
• Sheep, [434]
• Shoes taken off in holy places, [338]
• Shops, Eastern, [263]
• Silsiléh, Cataract once at, [7]
• Slavery, its abolition not contemplated by the first Christians, [234]
• Sluices of Lake Mœris, [108].
• At Suez, [477], [478]
• Solanum, a handsome one, [416]
• Solomon’s Pools and Aqueduct, [50].
• Has no doctrine of a future life, [194]
• Sparrows, [437]
• State, relation of, to Church, [513].
• Stops the usurpations of the Church, [519].
• Does not see its own duty, [520].
• Neglected national education, [521].
• What it should teach, [523].
• Why it should enforce moral training, [528].
• The sphere of the, [528].
• Its ability to give moral training, [529]
• Statue, wooden, at Boulak Museum, [72-74].
• Of Chephren, [74]
• Stone, date of building with, [75-81].
• Why large stones used in building, [293]
• Street, the Royal, at Thebes, [151]
• Suez, [477], [478], [484]
• Superstitions, Arab, [359-364].
• The evil eye accounted for, [360-363]
• Sycamore, [117]
• Tablet of Abydos, [101]
• Tacitus’ account of Germanicus’ visit to Egypt, [165]
• Tamarisk, [412]
• Tanis, [267].
• Hyksos at, [269].
• Connexion with the Exodus, [269]
• Tax on palm-trees, [23]
• Temples fortresses, [286]
• Testament, relation of New to Old, [235]
• Thebes becomes the capital, [125].
• Sources of its wealth, [130].
• Necropolis of, [133-143].
• Its temple-palaces, [144-153].
• Grandeur, [151]
• Theology and religion, [67].
• Not religion, [321].
• Of Alexandria, [451]
• This. See [Abydos]
• Tombs, pictures and sculptures of, [134-142].
• Why larger in Egypt than elsewhere, [296].
• Of the Memlooks, [467]
• Transmigration of souls, [188]
• Travel, effects of Eastern, on belief, [244-256].
• An aid to understanding the Scriptures, [249].
• Affects different minds differently, [253]
• Trees in Egypt, [410-413]
• Truth identical with religion, [237]
• Turanians, Egyptians not, [41]
• Turtle, how treated, [441]
• Unclean, the, animal, [431]
• Unconformable stratification of Nile mud, [9]
• Upper Egypt in post-Pharaohnic times, [289]
• Veil, the, [338]
• Venice, [492]
• Vertebrate skeleton, belief in a future life the ⸺ of thought, [183]
• Vespasian’s excise on scouring, [367]
• View from citadel of Cairo, [460].
• In London, [506]
• Villages, wretched houses in the, [405]
• Wagtail, [436]
• Wall-space for records, [290-298]
• Warburton’s Divine legation, [238]
• Water-jars, [402-404]
• Wells, suggestion for, in Egypt, [459]
• Westminster Abbey, what it suggests, [508], [511].
• What palace of, suggests, [512], [514]
• Wheat, mummy, cultivated by early settlers in central Europe, [44]
• Wife, an unfaithful, drowned, [384]
• Wisdom of Egyptians, [299-321].
• In what it consisted, [306].
• What overthrew it, [320]
• Women, Oriental, why frail, [386].
• Water-carriers, [402]
• Wood, want of, in Egypt, [405-409]
• Woollen, why Egyptian priests did not use, [367]

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