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MITRAHENNY.
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landing-place K would then be blocked up, and
the workmen would descend by the well and
return to the open air by the corridor H, which
in its turn would be obstructed by blocks intro-
duced through the external entrance of the
monument. Let us add that experience in
excavations authorizes this explanation to a
certain extent. Indeed, it is no uncommon
tiling to find tombs where a false scent has inten-
tionally diverted the attention of the would-be
violaters of the pit in which the mummy is
reposing. *
[II.— MITRAHEN N Y.
Mitrahenny lies on the road from Cairo to
Sakkarah. Both villages therefore are visited
in the same excursion; the first is passed just
before reaching the second.
The traveller who wishes to visit Mitrahenny
and Sakkarah can wait until his dahabeah is
ready, and then make Bedreshayn his first
halting-place on his journey up the Nile.
If, however, he should prefer making the ex-
cursion from Cairo, there are two routes from
* Examine with this view the two great Pyramids of
Dashoor. Here again every endeavor has been made to
deceive those who might seek to rifle the monument.
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landing-place K would then be blocked up, and
the workmen would descend by the well and
return to the open air by the corridor H, which
in its turn would be obstructed by blocks intro-
duced through the external entrance of the
monument. Let us add that experience in
excavations authorizes this explanation to a
certain extent. Indeed, it is no uncommon
tiling to find tombs where a false scent has inten-
tionally diverted the attention of the would-be
violaters of the pit in which the mummy is
reposing. *
[II.— MITRAHEN N Y.
Mitrahenny lies on the road from Cairo to
Sakkarah. Both villages therefore are visited
in the same excursion; the first is passed just
before reaching the second.
The traveller who wishes to visit Mitrahenny
and Sakkarah can wait until his dahabeah is
ready, and then make Bedreshayn his first
halting-place on his journey up the Nile.
If, however, he should prefer making the ex-
cursion from Cairo, there are two routes from
* Examine with this view the two great Pyramids of
Dashoor. Here again every endeavor has been made to
deceive those who might seek to rifle the monument.