Crania Ægyptiaca / Or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History and the Monuments

by Samuel George Morton

We proceed, in the next place, to analyze these crania individually, arranging them, for the purpose of convenience, into seven series, according to their sepulchral localities, beginning with the Necropolis of Memphis in the north:

First series, from the Memphite Necropolis.

A. Pyramid of five steps.

B. Saccàra, generally.

C. Front of the Brick Pyramid of Dashour.

D. North-west of the Pyramid of Five Steps.

E. Toora, on the Nile.

Second series, from the Grottoes of Maabdeh.

Third series, from Abydos.

Fourth series, from the Catacombs of Thebes.