| Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 360 pages
...are covered -with basreliefs crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length !...amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 688 pages
...covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone ; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length ! The amount of human labor and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with... | |
| United States National Museum - 1891 - 1232 pages
...therefore occupy an extent of nearly 3 miles in length. The amount of human labor and skill expended upon the great pyramids of Egypt, sink into insignificance...compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill temple in the interior of Java. About 40 miles southwest of Samarang, on a mountain called Junoug... | |
| William Judah Thomson - Archaeology - 1891 - 214 pages
...therefore occupy an extent of nearly 3 miles in length. The amount of human labor and skill expended upon the great pyramids of Egypt, sink into insignificance...compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill temple in the interior of Java. About 40 miles southwest of Samarang, on a mountain called Junong... | |
| New Zealand Institute - Science - 1897 - 788 pages
...are covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures and carved in hard stone, and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length....amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance -when compared with that required to complete this sculptured... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1902 - 566 pages
...covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone ; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length !...and skill expended on the Great Pyramids of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill-temple... | |
| Esther Singleton - Architecture - 1912 - 462 pages
...are covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures and carved in hard stone ; and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length !...amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured... | |
| Science - 1897 - 798 pages
...are covered with bas-reliefs crowded with figures and carved in hard stone, and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length....amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured... | |
| William Dudley Foulke - Voyages and travel - 1925 - 302 pages
...the surviving wonders of the world." And Sir Stamford Raffles, former Governor of Java declared, " The amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramids of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill temple... | |
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