. A history of art in ancient Egypt . iling of themummy-chamber of the weight to be placed above it. Thefirst four of these chambers were of similar shape and had flatroofs, but the roof of the fifth was formed of sloping slabs, 222 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. meeting In a ridge, and giving the chamber a triangular section(see Fig. 152). Thanks to this succession of voids immediatelyover the main chamber, and to the pointed arch which surmountsthem, the vertical pressure of the superstructure is dischargedfrom the chamber itself and distributed over the lateral partsof the pyramid. Thes
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . iling of themummy-chamber of the weight to be placed above it. Thefirst four of these chambers were of similar shape and had flatroofs, but the roof of the fifth was formed of sloping slabs, 222 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. meeting In a ridge, and giving the chamber a triangular section(see Fig. 152). Thanks to this succession of voids immediatelyover the main chamber, and to the pointed arch which surmountsthem, the vertical pressure of the superstructure is dischargedfrom the chamber itself and distributed over the lateral partsof the pyramid. These precautions have been quite a stone has been stirred either by the inward thrust or bythe crushing of their substance ; not a block is out of place butthose which have been disturbed by the violence of man ; and,moreover, the whole structure is so well bonded and so wellbalanced that even his violent attacks have led neither to dis-ruption nor settlement in the apartment of Cheops or in thegalleries which lead to it.^. Fig. 153.—Longitudinal section through the hnver chambers ; perspective after Pening, The glory of the workmen who built the Great Pyramid isthe masonry of the Grand Gallery, the gallery which opensimmediately into the vestibule of the Kings Chamber. As thiscorridor is 28 feet high and 7 feet wide, the visitor can breathemore freely than in the low and narrow passages which lead to ^ The discovery of these chambers Avas interesting from another point of name of Choufou was found continually repeated upon the blocks of whichthey are formed. It was written in red ochre, and, in places, it was upside down,thus proving that it must have been written before the stones were put in cannot therefore have been traced after the tradition which assigned thepyramid to Cheops, that is, to Khoufou, arose ; and so it affords conclusivecorroboration of the statements of Herodotus. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire. 223 it, and can examine at h
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