Famous Caves and Catacombs
Subtitle: Described and Illustrated
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780766159501
Subjects: World history; Earth Sciences - Geography; World - General; Science
First sentence: IN his ascent of that part of the course of the Nile which is included within the boundaries of Lower Nubia, at a distance of sixty leagues south-west of the First Cataract, and twelve leagues north of the Last, the traveller, who has been painfully impressed by the poor and desolated aspect of the country, pauses suddenly, struck with astonishment and admiration, before a range of colossal statues carved out of the rocky side of a hill of limestone, named Djebel Abou-Simbel, the base of which is washed by the waters of the famous river.