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The Pharaoh and the Priest
Bolesaw Prus
其他書名
An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014-02-27
主題Fiction / Science Fiction / GeneralFiction / Alternative History
ISBN14960910439781496091048
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gad2oAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋THE position of Ancient Egypt was unique, not in one, but in every sense. To begin at the very foundation of life in that country, we find that the soil was unlike any other on earth in its origin. Every acre of fruitful land between the first cataract and the sea had been brought from Inner Africa, and each year additions were made to it. Out of this mud, borne down thousands of miles from the great fertile uplands of Abyssinia by rivers, grew everything needed to feed and clothe man and nourish animals. Out of it also was made the brick from which walls, houses, and buildings of various uses and kinds were constructed. Though this soil of the country was rich, it could be utilized only by the unceasing co-ordinate efforts of a whole population constrained and directed. To direct and constrain was the task of the priests and the pharaohs.