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  2. ANTIQUITIES.

    We were now approaching the limit of the city, which was formed by a double wail, one several yards within the other. Just before passing through the Herculaneum Gate, our attention was directed to a ...

    Article : 1,173 words
  3. LITERARY DISCOVERIES.

    Signor Vincenzo Divet, a distinguished profrssor of the college of Padua, has, it is said, made a discovery of great interest in the field of classical literature. In an ancient manuscript in the library ...

    Article : 151 words
  4. NEW THEORY RESPECTING THE PYRAMIDS.

    A new theory of the object for which the Pyramids were erected, after the question has been discussed for more than two thousand years, cannot be expected to command immediate assent: the atmost that the ...

    Article : 1,065 words
  5. MUMMY FOUND AT POSSERSSION ISLAND.

    A natural mummy has been discovered at Possession Island, in Saldanha Bay, near to Ichaboe, on the southern coast of Africa, and has been brought to this country in the ship Toronto, ...

    Article : 449 words
  6. INTERIOUS OF ANCIENT HOME.

    The interiors of ancient Italy corresponded in some particulars with the modern. The sole occupation of a large house depended, of course, upon the income of the individuals. The Parisian system ...

    Article : 855 words
  7. EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.

    A sale by auction took place lately at the auction rooms of Messrs Sotheby and Wilkinson, Wellinslonstreet, Strand, of a collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of Mr Salt, which were discovered by ...

    Article : 743 words
  8. ANCIENT STONE AND LEADEN COFFINS, &C.

    During the late restorations at the Temple Church, extensive excavations were made in the Round Church, and several ancient stone and leaden coffins came to light. In the choir of the ...

    Article : 581 words
  9. ANCIENT QUARRIES IN SICILY.

    Net tar from the Greek city of Selinont exists a movement quite as curious and still more rare, of anctewt aieiiitectttre—-the quarrieti whence the Selinontines derived their temples and their palaces. The ...

    Article : 624 words
  10. THE MARKET AT ANCIENT ATHENS.

    He market-place was filling fast when Chariclcs entered it. Traders had set up their hurdle-work stalls all over it, with their wares exposed on tables and benches. Here the female bakers had piled up ...

    Article : 755 words
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