. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. estowed. Themagnificent and gigantic temple erected to Amon by thePharaohs, although now in ruins, is still one of the mostinteresting sights in Egypt. It was from this temple andthe worship of Amon that the Bible name of the city wastaken. When or by whom Thebes was founded is now a mat-ter of conjecture. Its early history has been lost. Thediscovery of ancient tombs shows that the city must havebeen founded as early as the time of Abraham. For cen-turies it was the capital
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. estowed. Themagnificent and gigantic temple erected to Amon by thePharaohs, although now in ruins, is still one of the mostinteresting sights in Egypt. It was from this temple andthe worship of Amon that the Bible name of the city wastaken. When or by whom Thebes was founded is now a mat-ter of conjecture. Its early history has been lost. Thediscovery of ancient tombs shows that the city must havebeen founded as early as the time of Abraham. For cen-turies it was the capital city of the Pharaohs, who ruledover both Upper and Lower Egypt. They succeeded inmaking of their capital the most magnificent city of ancienttimes. Homer refers to it in these lines: Where, in Egyptian Thebes the heaps of precious ingots gleam,The hundred-gated Thebes, where twice tenscore in martial styleOf valiant men and cars march through each massy gate. Diodorus visited the place B. C. 57 and writes of it asfollows: Afterward reigned Busirus, and eight of his pos- *Revised Version, Nahum 3: 8, The Great Hall at Karnac by Moonlight. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 217 terity after him; the last of which, of the same name withthe first, built that great city which the Egyptians call Di-ospolis, the Greeks Thebes; it was in circuit one hundredand forty stadia [about twelve miles], adorned with statelypublic buildings, magnificent temples, and rich donationsand revenues to admiration; and he built all the privatehouses, some four, some five stories high. And to sum upall in a word, made it not only the most beautiful and state-liest city in Egypt, but of all others in the world. Thefame therefore of the riches and grandeur of this city wasso noised abroad in every place, that the poet Homer takesnotice of it. . Although there are some that say ithad not a hundred gates; but there are many large porchesto the temples, whence the city was called Hecatompylus, ahundre
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