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 G1ZEII.

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until the Third Pyramid had been effectually cleared
out.

I left Cairo with Mr. Hill, accompanied by Mr.
Brettell, Mr. Perring, and Mr. Andrews, of whom I took
leave near Shoubrah. It was my intention to have gone
by the desert to Alexandria from Rosetta; but, being
unable to obtain asses at Rosetta owing to a large fair in
the neighbourhood, I returned to Atfee, and arrived by
water at Alexandria, on the 9th August, 1837.

I heard at that place, from Mr. Ptaven, that he had
cleared the Third Pyramid, and had been at work upon
the pavement of Belzoni's Chamber in the Second. I also
received from Mr. Perring a drawing of the hieroglyphics
inscribed on the mummy-boards, and soon afterwards the
boards themselves together with the bones found in the
Third Pyramid, which are now in the British Museum.
He likewise informed me, that in consequence of a place
for a sarcophagus having been found in the floor of the
Great Chamber in the Third Pyramid, and of the simi-
larity of its pavement with that of Belzoni's Chamber in the
Second, that the latter had been explored in the hope of
finding a concealed passage beneath it, but that nothing
had been discovered excepting the solid rock. As I con-
sidered it an object of great interest, I left directions before
I embarked for Malta, that the whole of the pavement and
the sarcophagus should be examined, which was accord-
ingly done, but without any successful result. I also desired
Mr. Raven to remove the sarcophagus out of the Third
Pyramid, and to sink a shaft in the Great Pyramid,
which has been already alluded to. Mr. Perring likewise
mentioned that the ornaments upon the sarcophagus in the
Third Pyramid resembled those in the tomb of Numbers,

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