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)

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APPENDIX.

Plate XXVII., the interior of the Great Pyramid. The King's
Chamber is placed in the middle of the structure, and the
Queen's under it, with a flat roof. The King's Chamber is said
to be composed of granite, and the roof of seven stones, the
Sarcophagus to have been made of marble; and it is added that
fragments of terra cotta were found near it. Plate XXVIII. is
a general view of the three Pyramids — that of Chemmis, of
Chephren, and of Rhodope or of Mycerinus.

As I before stated, Nos. 26, 27, and 28, are not worthy of
notice.

MR. BROWNE (1792-1798)

Gives the following account of the dimensions of the King's
Chamber:—

Feet. Inches.

Length - - - - 34 5

Breadth - - - - 17 2

Sarcophagus, Length - - - 7 8

Breadth - - - - 3 2

Depth within - - - 2 10 j

Thickness - - - 0 6

The Galleries and Great Chamber are situated due north and south,
allowing for the variation of the needle.

The first passage descending

105

H

Small chamber, Length

18

9

Breadth

- • 17

1

Antechamber, length

7

5

Main gallery, upper part

150

0

lower part

148

0

Passage to inferior chamber

109

0

He adds, that the King's Chamber and Sarcophagus are
formed of granite, but that the Pyramids are built of a soft white
freestone, replete with shells, like the rock on which they are
placed.

M. DENON (1799),

Who was a member of the Institute in Egypt in 1779, states, that
Cheops was the fourth king in succession after Sesostris, and that
he built the Great Pyramid in emulation of the mausolca of his