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  • '' 'Kahun' '' is an ancient Egyptian workers village that is located in the modern village of el-Lahun in Faiyum.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [[File: Kahan_plan_by_Petrie. jpg | thumb | 250px | right | From a plan made and published by Professor Flinders Petrie, Illahun, Kahun and Gurob, pl. xiv.]] [[File: Kahan_plan_by_Petrie. jpg | thumb | 250px | right | From a plan made and published by Professor Flinders Petrie, Illahun, Kahun and Gurob, pl. xiv.]] '' 'Kahun' '' is an ancient Egyptian workers village that is located in the modern village of el-Lahun in Faiyum.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Others are the Kahun, Berlin, Hearst and British Museum papyri.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • And the date of these was already well known from Kahun and other places; indeed the date of this cemetery could be seen at once from the chips of pottery lying on the surface.

    El Kab James Edward Quibell 1901

  • We lived for a while with Professor Flanders in the Fayum district; I saw the ruins of Kahun, built nearly three thousand years before the coming of Christ; I myself picked up a scarab as old as the ruins! ...

    The Younger Set 1899

  • In Crete this was the period when the beautiful polychrome Kamares ware was at the height of its popularity, and at Kahun, close to the pyramid of Senusert II.,

    The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

  • The little bath-tub in the Queen's Megaron at Knossos takes its place with the children's toys of the Twelfth Dynasty town at Kahun in bringing home to us the actual humanity of the people who used to be paragraphs in Lemprière's 'Classical Dictionary' or Rollin's

    The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

  • Kahun: Twelfth Dynasty town at, 116; papyrus, 148; Kamares ware at, 150, 199

    The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

  • [Page 243] trie's most interesting collection of domestic objects discovered in the ruins of Kahun – a site of which I have already had occasion to say something in Chapter IV. of this volume – and I well remember the thrill with which I saw and handled some of these very objects.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • The earlier mound is locally known as Tell Kahun, and the more recent as Tell Gurob.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

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