Naville, Edouard [Editor]; Newberry, Percy E. [Editor]; Fraser, George W. [Editor]; Egypt Exploration Fund [Editor]: Special extra report: comprising the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund and the progress of egyptology during the year ...: The season's work at Ahnas and Beni Hasan (London, 1891)

THE CLIFFS AT BBNI HASAN.

THE CLEARANCE OF THE TOMBS AT
BENT HASAN.

On arriving with Mr. Newberry at Beni Hasan (November
25th, 1890), my first work was to construct a scaffolding
consisting of two trestles and some ladders. The ladders
were used by us continually all the time we were at work,
and one of the trestles Avas afterwards adapted and used by
Mr. Blackden while painting.

During the month of December, I employed parties of men
to clear all the tombs down to floor level. In this way the
two tombs of Baqt and Kheti, which appeared to have been
partially cleared by the authorities of the Ghizelr Museum,
were entirely cleared, and the proportions of the tombs can
now be clearly seen.

During the clearing of the tombs, an interesting discovery
was made of ancient stone chisels with which the surfaces of
the walls had been dressed down. They are chipped out of
the boulders which abound here, the material being a hard,
fine, crystalline limestone. They appear to have been used
with both hands, and not to have had any hafts.

During the clearing, a good deal of Coptic pottery was

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