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... lived in an early age when the mammoth and many other extinct beasts were yet alive , that he even had learned to sketch them on bone before they became extinct , -is the testimony of the caves . Long ages must have elapsed before the ...
... lived in an early age when the mammoth and many other extinct beasts were yet alive , that he even had learned to sketch them on bone before they became extinct , -is the testimony of the caves . Long ages must have elapsed before the ...
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... lived about 2100 B.C. The former speaks of himself , in one of his texts , as ruling in the Phoenician regions ; and the incur- sions of the Akkadians into Sinai are mentioned some centuries earlier . The account in Genesis of ...
... lived about 2100 B.C. The former speaks of himself , in one of his texts , as ruling in the Phoenician regions ; and the incur- sions of the Akkadians into Sinai are mentioned some centuries earlier . The account in Genesis of ...
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... lived near Lake Van . About 1500 B.C. Dusratta , the ruler of Mitani ( or Matiene ) in Ar- | menia , wrote to Egypt a letter in his own language , from which it appears that his race was also Minyan ( see the paper by the present author ...
... lived near Lake Van . About 1500 B.C. Dusratta , the ruler of Mitani ( or Matiene ) in Ar- | menia , wrote to Egypt a letter in his own language , from which it appears that his race was also Minyan ( see the paper by the present author ...
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... history of Manetho - who lived in the third century B.C. — and partly on the occurrence of the name Raamses ( Exod . i . 11 ) as that of a store - city built by Israelites for the Pharaohs . The objections to such a 35 THE EXODUS.
... history of Manetho - who lived in the third century B.C. — and partly on the occurrence of the name Raamses ( Exod . i . 11 ) as that of a store - city built by Israelites for the Pharaohs . The objections to such a 35 THE EXODUS.
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... lived on for any length of time at such centres , until the occasion for conquest came with the decay of the Egyptian power . The scene of their wanderings is defined ( Deut . i . 1 ) as being in the Arabah , between Tophel ( now ...
... lived on for any length of time at such centres , until the occasion for conquest came with the decay of the Egyptian power . The scene of their wanderings is defined ( Deut . i . 1 ) as being in the Arabah , between Tophel ( now ...
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