Ten years' digging in Egypt, 1881-1891

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: .east an d west, is the door to a red granite chamber, containing the sarcophagus. T his second chamber is roofed exactly like that of Menkaura's pyramid at Giz eh, with slanting blocks cut out in a curve below. The sarcophagus is one o f the finest products of mechanical skill that is known from ancient times. It is of red granite, of a form not before met with, having a wide rectang ular brim. The surfaces are all ground flat, but not polished; truth, and n ot effect, was sought for. And its errors of work in flatness and regularit y are not more than the thickness of a visiting card. Its accuracy of propo rtion is also fine, as each dimension is a whole number of palms, with a fl uctuation of only one part in a thousand. In front of the sarcophagus stood the alabaster table of offerings, for the ka of Usertesen II, now in the G izeh Museum. Strange to say, there is not a trace of a coffin, or a lid to the sarcophagus; and, indeed, as this chamber is not under the middle of th e pyramid, it may be questioned whether the real interment is not yet to be reached by some other passage. From the north wall of this chamber a stran ge passage is cut in the rock, first northwards, then west, then south, the n east, and lastly northwards again, opening into the limestone chamber; in fact, it passes around the granite chamber. It was not a workman's passage intended to be closed up again, as the doorway of it has a bevelled edge a.

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ISBN: 1153176254

ISBN-13: 9781153176255

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Year: 2012

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