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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter IV. TOMBS. A Short notice of some of the chief burial-grounds and tombs in Egypt is necessary. For more information we refer to the authorities cited in this chapter. Among the most extensive burial-grounds in Egypt were those in the neighbourhood of the pyramids of Jizeh; and indeed, for some distance to the south beyond Abousir, one great cemetery seems to have extended. The proximity of the antient capital Memphis, now partly occupied by the village of Mitrahenny, is sufficient to account for the innumerable sepulchres which spread over a space many miles in length. At Jizeh these mausoleums run north and south of the pyramids, and are found also in their immediate neighbourhood as represented in our plan. Captain Caviglia laid open several of these constructed tombs, which were found to be built of large stones, and generally in an oblong form, with the walls slightly inclining inwards from the perpendicular. The roofs were flat, with a parapet of stones round them. The entrances, which are sometimes door-ways, in other cases merely square holes, have been made only on the north and east, with the view, as it is conjectured, of keeping out the sand, which is blown from the Libyan desert. The first edifice, that Captain Caviglia opened, had the walls covered with stucco, and adorned with rude paintings. Fragments of mummies, with their cases, were also found See chapter on Pyramid. here. A second edifice contained no paintings, but some fragments of statues, of which one specimen, a figure in the act of walking, with the left leg extended, is now in the Museum. (See p. 18, No. 35.) This figure is of calcareous stone, and, as already observed, evidently not a work in the pure Egyptian style. It is a combination of the two styles, Greek and Egyptian, as e...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217067447 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217067441 |
| Weight | 0.79 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $21.51 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 240 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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