Petrie, William M. Flinders: Ten years' digging in Egypt: 1881 - 1891 (London, 1892)

24 TEX YEARS DIGGING IN EGYrT

pyramids were also disposed of. The passages are
commonly supposed to have been blocked up by

DOOR OF THE SOUTH PYRAMID OF DAHSHUR

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OOOROF THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZEH

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8. Pyramid Doors.
plugs of stone; whereas in both the great and second
pyramids there is proof in the passages that no such

g. Pivot IIoi.f. of Door and Cutting of Roof;
South Pyramid, Dahshur.

blocks ever existed. The entrances arc supposed to
have been concealed by the solid masonry; whereas
at Dahshur, and in Strabo's account: of the great