Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 1) (London, 1840)

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also found near the Fifth and most of the other pyramids.
Mr. Perring and Mr. Mash surveyed Colonel Campbell's
Chamber.

May 30th.

Reis, 10. Men, 196. Children, 185.

Great Pyramid.—Excavation in northern front.

- Roof in Queen's Chamber.

- Clearing the Chambers and Passages.

Second Pyramid.—Roof in Belzoni's Chamber.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.

Excavation between the Third and Fifth Pyramids.

Campbell's Tomb.

Fourth Pyramid.—Interior.

Shaft westward of Sphinx.

Shaft between Campbell's Tomb and Second Pyramid.
Shaft north of Sphinx.
Bridge in southern Dyke.

Several Arab Sheiks came to the tents.

Mr. Hill copied the hieroglyphics in Campbell's Cham-
ber. The survey was continued, and a party was again
sent to the bridge in the southern Dyke. The lid of the
sarcophagus in Campbell's Tomb was moved out on
wooden rollers, that the hieroglyphics might be copied;
and various articles were sent from this place to the
consulate. A quantity of bones and pieces of earthen-
ware were found on the buttress at the south-western
angle, and in different parts of the fosse. I examined,
with Mr. Hill, the chasm at the northern front of the
Great Pyramid; it had been cleared to a great depth,
and had become so narrow that the works were carried
on with difficulty. As the operations were nearly finished
in the interior of the Great Pyramid, people were em-