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112 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
ped of its covering, and appeared to have been found there.
The prospect of getting a royal mummy made me search for
others; and I employed some of the peasants in clearing
away the ruins from the chamber near which it was found,
but to no purpose. The teeth of the last mentioned mummy
were very regular, perfectly white, and part of the hair of
the head remaining.
Denon has given an interesting description of the ap-
proach to the tombs of the kings. After continuing for half
an hour in a long winding valley, the traveller at last arrives
unexpectedly at a chasm, where the rock seems to have been
divided by art, leaving a passage, not level with the ground,
of four or five feet, through which he enters into a wide
amphitheatre of rocks, in the sides of which are the entrances
to the tombs: some are covered; others just show the cor-
nice ; others again are open, and present the whole front,
which is generally of plain masonry, of about six feet wide
and high.
The difficulty with which researches have been always
made in Egypt, has confined the drawings taken by travel-
lers, and even the scavans of the French army, to mere
objects of antiquity; whereas their situation and correspond-
ing scenery are often very interesting, and well worth being
presented to public view. The ruins of Dendyra, so often
described, so accurately drawn by the French scavans and
ped of its covering, and appeared to have been found there.
The prospect of getting a royal mummy made me search for
others; and I employed some of the peasants in clearing
away the ruins from the chamber near which it was found,
but to no purpose. The teeth of the last mentioned mummy
were very regular, perfectly white, and part of the hair of
the head remaining.
Denon has given an interesting description of the ap-
proach to the tombs of the kings. After continuing for half
an hour in a long winding valley, the traveller at last arrives
unexpectedly at a chasm, where the rock seems to have been
divided by art, leaving a passage, not level with the ground,
of four or five feet, through which he enters into a wide
amphitheatre of rocks, in the sides of which are the entrances
to the tombs: some are covered; others just show the cor-
nice ; others again are open, and present the whole front,
which is generally of plain masonry, of about six feet wide
and high.
The difficulty with which researches have been always
made in Egypt, has confined the drawings taken by travel-
lers, and even the scavans of the French army, to mere
objects of antiquity; whereas their situation and correspond-
ing scenery are often very interesting, and well worth being
presented to public view. The ruins of Dendyra, so often
described, so accurately drawn by the French scavans and