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)

66 OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.

anteroom in the Fourth Pyramid, and to work at the
northern fronts of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth, which
are situated, as I have observed, to the eastward of the
Great Pyramid; the Seventh being the northern, and the
Eighth the central. The entrance into the Seventh was
evidently beneath a large stone, that appeared, as far as
an opinion could be formed in the ruined state of the
building, to be in the centre of the northern front, where
the sand and rubbish had been thrown up in a ridge by
former explorers, so that very little labour was required
to arrive at the passage. The superstructure had been
nearly destroyed; and there was a large cavity in the
centre, which had been covered over with sand.

A tent was set up for Mr. Andrews, who was employed
in drawing at the Great Pyramid.

I examined the Sixth. At the bottom of the passage
we found an anteroom partially filled with sand and stones,
that had fallen in by accident; for it had not been closed
up with solid masonry, as the interior had never been
finished. The chambers had been cut in the rocks, and
the marks of a chisel were every where visible. The walls
had not been plastered, nor did we perceive any hiero-
glyphics or sculpture. The sepulchral chamber had been
begun from the eastern and southern sides, and had been
finished from the top, which was completed ; but a consi-
derable part yet remained to be cut out at the northern
end, and it had been left in the same state as the western
side of the subterraneous chamber3 in the Great Pyramid.
Intersecting lines had been marked with red on the ceiling;

3 It is evident, therefore, that the latter chamber had never been
completed.