Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 484
which is yet an enigma, stands for ourastonishment Herodotus tells us, when speaking of the Laby-rinth of Egypt, that it had 3,000 chambers, half of them aboveand half below ground. He says, The upper chambers I my-self passed through and saw, and what I say concerning them isfrom my own… … THE GREAT PYRAMID AINU SlIlI^X sepulchres of the kings who built the labyrinth, and also thoseof the sacred crocodiles;thus it is from hearsayonly that I can speak ofthe lower chambers.The upper chambers,however, I saw withmy own eyes, and foundthem to excel all otherhuman productions. Thepassage…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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