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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is, however, a secret passage below the sarcophagus in
the tomb discovered by Signor Belzoni at Thebes.

Mr. Perring sent me several quarry-marks found upon

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the stones taken up in Belzoni's Chamber; and said that
there were also many others, but that they were quite
illegible, and even these do not admit of any interpreta-
tion. No. 1. was found on all the four sides of a block.

The whole of the pavement in Belzoni's Chamber was
examined, and the sarcophagus removed from its place;
it was bedded in a fine cement, upon a large block of
granite, and great hopes were at first entertained that a
secret entrance was concealed beneath it; but, upon
further examination, the granite proved to be merely a slab
from twelve to eighteen inches in thickness; and as the
lower face of it was rough and irregular, it was bedded,
like the sarcophagus, in fine cement, or gypsum ; the rock
appeared solid in every other part; without the slightest
indication of a passage. Mr. Perring is still, however,
°f opinion that the principal chamber in this pyramid
is concealed.