March 1, 2024 - Reporting History

Temples and Tombs of the Egyptians

Another Article on the Ancient Buildings of the Nile Country.

BY GIDEON A. LYON
Photographs by the Author

A general view of the Temple of Karnak, Luxor

RETURNING to Luxor from the west bank of the Nile, after visiting the tombs and temples of the ancient “City of the Dead,” one sees in its fullest proportions the Temple of Luxor, earliest, it is believed, of the great religious structures of the east bank. It presents from this point of view more the aspect of an architectural unit than dees its greater and more celebrated neighbor, the Temple of Karnak. Yet it is sadly ruined and is, more over, marred by the intrussion within its very precincts of a mosque that, standing on higher ground, dominates the scene with its incongruous outlines.

According to accepted hypothesis, ancient Thebes, on the east bank, was regarded as the city of the living, while the Thebes of the west bank was known as the city of the dead. Thus the tombs are on the west bank, while the temples, with a few exceptions, such as the Der el-Bahri, the Medinet Habu and the Ramesseum, are on the east side of the river. Western Thebes was a necropolis, while Eastern Thebes was the city of splendor, of ceremony, of wealth, of active power.

Daily News World War 1

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US Civil War

March 1, 1861 – A Tennessee Editor on Jefferson Davis and the Confederate States

The Nashville Democrat of the 16th inst. has a slashing article on President Jefferson Davis and the new Confederacy, from which we extract as follows:

This same blusterer, in a speech few years ago, ventured to slander the Tennessee volunteers. We know what we say; when we assert that, with all his bluster, Tennessee could, if so disposed, subdue the whole Cottonocracy in a short time. He calculates now on the soldiers of Tennessee to aid him in his wicked and fiendish purpose of breaking up this glorious government.

He is as proud and as vain as Beelzebub. He thinks that he holds the “kingdoms of the world, and the powers thereof,” in the hollow of his band. He is looking for the English Government to bow to him. He says the English Government will acknowledge the Cottonocracy.