. The sacred beetle: a popular treatise on Egyptian scarabs in art and history. THE TERRACE-TEMPLE OFQUEEN HATASU. Everything proceeding from the remarkable princess, QueenHatasu, is in good taste, and proves her to have been a giftedand able ruler of a cultivated people. The celebrated Terrace Plate II.] SCARABS OF THE EARLY NEW KINGDOM. 49. QUEEN HATASU. Temple of Deir el Bahri, Thebes, is the most elegant specimen of architecture in Egypt, and shows what we would term pure Grecian taste, and in the severe Doric style. But it was built more than iooo years before the first Greek temples, and
. The sacred beetle: a popular treatise on Egyptian scarabs in art and history. THE TERRACE-TEMPLE OFQUEEN HATASU. Everything proceeding from the remarkable princess, QueenHatasu, is in good taste, and proves her to have been a giftedand able ruler of a cultivated people. The celebrated Terrace Plate II.] SCARABS OF THE EARLY NEW KINGDOM. 49. QUEEN HATASU. Temple of Deir el Bahri, Thebes, is the most elegant specimen of architecture in Egypt, and shows what we would term pure Grecian taste, and in the severe Doric style. But it was built more than iooo years before the first Greek temples, and when Pericles raised the Parthenon, he knew not of the earlier masterpiece. It was lost to the world for 2000 years, and has only been recently ex-cavated from the ruins of mud brick buildings which entombed it, and at the same time preserved it for our generation. The three beautiful volumes of the Egypt Exploration Fund, which illustrate it, are well worthy of study. Even the Scarabs of this wonderful lady are con-spicuous by their exquisite temple wasbuilt to immortalize hermother, Queen Aahmes, andher own scientific expeditionsto foreign lands. It mayalso have been intended forher own mortuary mummy of QueenHatasu has never beenfound, and her tomb may stillexist, entombed in the rockbehind or beneath the
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