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THE writer is a well-read sailor, who has devoted much time to answering as plausibly as possible the common query of travellers, “How did the Egyptians transport such great stones from their quarries as the stones for the pyramids, the colossi and obelisks, and lift them to their present positions?”
The Mechanical Triumphs of the Ancient Egyptians.
By Commander F. M. Barber, U.S. Navy. Pp. x + 123. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1900.) Price 3s. 6d.
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The Mechanical Triumphs of the Ancient Egyptians . Nature 65, 78 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065078a0
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