Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 490
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 AND SPHINX. 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.…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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