History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Fig. 14. The Colossal Columns of the Nave in the GreatHall of Karnak These are the columns of the middle two rows in the nave (Fig. 16). The human figures below show by contrast the vast dimensions of the columns towering above them (§ 50) The Story of Egypt 31 controlled the large island of Crete (§§ 123-125). They dug acanal from the north end of the Red Sea westward to the nearestbranch of the Nile in the eastern Delta (see map, p. 42). ThePharaohs Mediterranean ships could sail up the easternmostmouth of t

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History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Fig. 14. The Colossal Columns of the Nave in the GreatHall of Karnak These are the columns of the middle two rows in the nave (Fig. 16). The human figures below show by contrast the vast dimensions of the columns towering above them (§ 50) The Story of Egypt 31 controlled the large island of Crete (§§ 123-125). They dug acanal from the north end of the Red Sea westward to the nearestbranch of the Nile in the eastern Delta (see map, p. 42). ThePharaohs Mediterranean ships could sail up the easternmostmouth of the Nile, then enter the canal and, passing eastwardthrough it, reach the Red Sea. Thus the Mediterranean and theRed Sea were first connected by this predecessor of the SuezCanal four thousand years ago. The power and prosperity ofthe Feudal Age did much to prepare Egypt to rule other nations,as mistress of a great empire. IV. The Empire 47. Monuments of Thebes and Arrival of the Horse in Egypt. The monuments along the river banks have thus far told usthe story of two of the th

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