. Architecture, classic and early Christian . the twelfth dynasty, and present few features of archi-tectural interest, though they are remarkable for theirvast extent and thevariety of form of theirvarious chambers andgalleries. They con-sist of a series ofcliambers excavated inthe rock, and it ap-pears certain that thetomb was commencedon the accession of eachmonarch, and wasdriven farther andfarther into the rockduring the continuanceof his reign till hisdeath, when all workabruptly ceased. Allthe chambers are pro-fusely decorated withpaintings, but of a kindvery different fromthose of the
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . the twelfth dynasty, and present few features of archi-tectural interest, though they are remarkable for theirvast extent and thevariety of form of theirvarious chambers andgalleries. They con-sist of a series ofcliambers excavated inthe rock, and it ap-pears certain that thetomb was commencedon the accession of eachmonarch, and wasdriven farther andfarther into the rockduring the continuanceof his reign till hisdeath, when all workabruptly ceased. Allthe chambers are pro-fusely decorated withpaintings, but of a kindvery different fromthose of the earlierdynasties. Instead ofdepicting scenes of ordi-nary life, all the paint-ings refer to the sup-posed life after deatli,and are thus of verygreat value as a meansof deteruiining the re-ligious opinions of tlie. -Plas asd Section of the TombAi Besi-Uassan. 24 ANCIENT ARCUITECTLRE. Egyptians at this time. One of the most remarkableof these tombs is tliat of Manephtliah or Sethi I., atBab-el-Molouk, and known as Belzonis tomb, as it wasdiscovered by him ; from it was taken the alabaster sarco-phagus now ill the Soane Museum in Lincolns Inn this relic a new interest is given by the announcement,Avlnle these pages are passing through the press, of thediscovery of the mummy of this very JVIanephthah, withthirty-eight other royal mummies, in tlie neighbourhoodof Thebes.
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