An important piece of evidence on this point has recently come to light in the shape of the carved hippopotamus-tusk handle of an Egyptian predynastic stone knife, said to have been found in the Wadi el 'Araq, on the right bank of the Nile opposite Nag`Hamadi, and now in the Louvre.23 On this remarkable object, which is certainly of predynastic Egyptian date (before 3500 B.C.), we see representations of early Egyptians and perhaps other tribes fighting, with ships, some like those represented on the Egyptian predynastic pots and others different, with high prows and sterns, and we also see a strange deity of Babylonian aspect. [Please select]
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He saw his galleys rammed by the sharp prows of other galleys; his fighting-men shot down; his ships boarded. [Please select]
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"Why, the queer little ships with the high sides and prows." [Please select]
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Galleys of the Lochlanns ran here to beach, in quest of prey, their bloodbeaked prows riding low on a molten pewter surf. [Please select]
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My eyes were fixed upon the Nile and on the lights that hung to the prows of the Great King's ships. [Please select]
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Their vessels were also ingeniously formed; those belonging to the Rajah had their prows carved and richly gilt. [Please select]
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To the eastward turned the prows of the English ships; the sails filled, the shores slipped past. [Please select]
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At an early period they had round bottoms and sharp prows. [Please select]
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For a month the canoe prows met the current when a portage lifted the fleet out of the Ottawa into a shallow stream flowing toward Lake Nipissing, and from Lake Nipissing to Lake Huron. [Please select]
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