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Io8. Pyramid of Medum.
CHAPTER X.
MEDUM.
l89I.
AFTER having sampled the civilization of each of the
great periods of Egyptian history, back to the twelfth
dynasty, as described in preceding chapters, I longed
more than ever to discover the beginning of things.
For this Medum offered the best chance for reaching
back. The presumption was that it belonged to the
beginning cf the fourth dynasty; and here we might
perhaps find something still undeveloped, and be able
to gauge our way in the unknown. Could we there sec
the incipient stages, or at least their traces? Could
we learn how conventional forms and ideas had arisen ?
Could we find Egypt not yet full grown, still in its
childhood ?
I called together a selected lot of my old workers
CHAPTER X.
MEDUM.
l89I.
AFTER having sampled the civilization of each of the
great periods of Egyptian history, back to the twelfth
dynasty, as described in preceding chapters, I longed
more than ever to discover the beginning of things.
For this Medum offered the best chance for reaching
back. The presumption was that it belonged to the
beginning cf the fourth dynasty; and here we might
perhaps find something still undeveloped, and be able
to gauge our way in the unknown. Could we there sec
the incipient stages, or at least their traces? Could
we learn how conventional forms and ideas had arisen ?
Could we find Egypt not yet full grown, still in its
childhood ?
I called together a selected lot of my old workers