The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 25
the date ascribed to theFlood, those of Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus inthe fourth dynasty deserve special attention. Not that 2 EGYPT AND NUBIA. the oldest monuments were built during the reigns ofthese kings (for the pyramids of Sakkarah, Dashour,and Medoun all date hundreds of years before… … FlG. i.—Pyramid cf Chei cipal pyramids of the group of Gizeh (Fig. i), whichare held the most important typical and instructivecreations of their kind throughout the land. These great masses of masonry, fifteen in number,lie on the west bank of the Nile near Cairo, with facesturned to the four…
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