[197] Bædeker, Egypt, part i. 1878. The pages dealing with the monumental remains were edited in great part by Professor Ebers.
[198] Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, vol. i. p. 45.
[199] Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, vol. i. p. 34.
[200] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part i. pl. 94. Rhind, Thebes, its Tombs and their Tenants, p. 45. Mariette, Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, vol. ii. p. 80.
[201] Thus the Great Pyramid was 482 feet high, while the length of one side at the base is 764 feet. On the other hand, the "third pyramid" at Gebel-Barkal (Napata) is 35 feet square at the base and 60 feet high; the "fifth" is 39 feet square at the base and nearly 50 feet high. Their proportions are not constant, but the height of the Nubian pyramids is always far greater than the length of one side at its base.
[202] Herodotus, ii. 124.
[203] Du Barry de Merval, Études sur l'Architecture Égyptienne, pp. 129, 130.
[204] The discovery of these chambers was interesting from another point of view. The name of Choufou was found continually repeated upon the blocks of which they are formed. It was written in red ochre, and, in places, it was upside down, thus proving that it must have been written before the stones were put in place. It cannot therefore have been traced after the tradition which assigned the pyramid to Cheops, that is, to Khoufou, arose; and so it affords conclusive corroboration of the statements of Herodotus.
[205] This is no exaggeration. Jomard expresses himself to the same effect almost in the same terms. (Description de l'Égypte, vol. v. p. 628.)
[206] The extremity of this gallery appears on the right of Fig. 152.