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	ASSMANNSHAUSEN - LoveToKnow Article on ASSMANNSHAUSEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The archaeological commission of the Description de ye ~gypte visited them in 1799, when the walls of many of the large du rnbs were still almost intact; in the first half of the i9th cen- tei ry (and to some extent later) an immense amount of destruction At is caused by blasting for stone.
		Three of the tombs illustrate su e of the darkest periods in Egypts history, when the princes of tk it played a leading part in the struggle between Heracleopolis As d Thebes (Dyns.
		IX.-XI.); another, of the XIIth Dynasty, ea ntains a remarkable inscription detailing the contracts made e.l the nomarch with the priests of the temples of Ophois th d Anubis for perpetual services at his tomb (see Breasted, scent Records of Egjvpi, Historical Documents, vol.
	20.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AS/ASSMANNSHAUSEN.htm (1208 words)

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		Nevertheless, if we overlook these isolated instances, we can safely consider that the first definable phase in the genesis of monasticism was the Antonian way of life based on solitude, chastity, poverty, and the principle of torturing the body to save the soul.
		An illiterate twenty-year-old Christian at the village of Coma in the district of Heracleopolis in Middle Egypt, Anthony heard it said one day in church: "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven" [Matthew 19:21].
		A fundamentalist, he did just that and crossed the Nile for the desert solitude where he spent eighty-five years of increasing austerity and asceticism.
	www.coptic.net /articles/CoptsAndChristendom.txt (10614 words)

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