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 2) (London, 1841)

OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.

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Reis, 11. Men, 127. Children, 117.

The same works were repeated.

A good many stones were removed at the Third and
Sixth Pyramids, and the pavement near the former was
found to have been broken up. The place was filled with
rubbish, but could not be examined, as it was necessary
to keep the surface level and hard, for the removal of the
blocks of granite.

Mr. Warden, a lieutenant of one of the Company's
ships, arrived from Suez.

July 18th.

Reis, 11. Men, 122. Children, 135.

Third Pyramid.—Interior.

- Clearing the pavement.

Fourtli Pyramid.—Blasting for another entrance.
Sixth Pyramid.—Removing stones on northern front.

As the passages and chambers, in the Fourth and
Fifth Pyramids, had been found beneath the masonry, I
■was not very sanguine about the operations which had
been so long and so unsuccessfully carried on in the
interior of the Third. They were, however, still con-
tinued at night, but the men were taken off during the
day, and were employed in blasting stones at the northern
fronts of the Third and Sixth Pyramids. Notwithstand-
mg that there still remained a number of heavy blocks on
the front of the latter pyramid, we began to remove the
sand in search of the entrance.