. The builders of the pyramid; the story of Shelby County: its resources and developments . for twenty years. The probable costwas about $40,000,000. The second pyramid, close to the first, wasbuilt by the successor of Cheops, who was namedChepheron ; but the inscriptions on the stones givethe name Shafra. The sides of its base are aboutsixty feet less than that of Cheops. About fortyyears later Mycerinus or Mencheres built a third;but the side of the base is only about 364 feet, ^orless than half of that of the Great Pyramid. Itwas, however, entirely faced with polished granite,while the othe
. The builders of the pyramid; the story of Shelby County: its resources and developments . for twenty years. The probable costwas about $40,000,000. The second pyramid, close to the first, wasbuilt by the successor of Cheops, who was namedChepheron ; but the inscriptions on the stones givethe name Shafra. The sides of its base are aboutsixty feet less than that of Cheops. About fortyyears later Mycerinus or Mencheres built a third;but the side of the base is only about 364 feet, ^orless than half of that of the Great Pyramid. Itwas, however, entirely faced with polished granite,while the others were faced with limestone. The number of pyramids on the range ofcliffs overlooking the Nile from Abooroash in theNorth to lUahoon in the South, is in the neigh-borhood of 100. The construction of pyramids-seems to have ended in lower Egypt at a veryearly date, probably with the old dynasty of Memphis. The erection of Cheops occurred, according to the best au-thors, nearly 2,170 years B C To reahze such a date one has tothink back forty centuries. After all these forty centuries the. Obelisk at Karnac erected by Thothmes 1. 90 chisel marks of the masons are as easily seen as when first Egyptians not only produced marvels m their pyramids, butthey excelled all others in their tombs and temples, their obelisksand sphynxes. In domestic art they were masters, for in all the con-veniences and elegancies of building they seem to have anticipatedeverything that has been accomplished in modern times. DECORATIVE INSTINCT OF EGYPTIANS. The Egyptians were eminently wellversed in decorative art. On the largerquestions of the aesthetic in schemes of de-sign, of the meaning of ornament, symbolicor religious, and of the value and effect ofcolor, they possessed full knowledge of truedecorative effect. Their love of form anddrawing was inherent, and in all their dec-orative work they never lost sight of theoriginal pictures. This remained with themas shown by their hieroglyphic pic
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