. Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers. could be closed by a trap-dour at its lower end. It is continued bya horizontal shaft, 10 ft. in length, to the granite Tomb Chamber (PI. i). 134 Route 6. PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH. Third Pyramid. Immediately before the latter is reached a, flight of seven steps leads tothe right to a chamber with recesses on the right and back walls. Thetomb-chamber is paved with blocks of granite, 21/2 ft. in thickness, andits ceiling has been formed by placing the stones against each other at anangle so as to resemble a roof and then hollowing them ont on the insidein
. Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers. could be closed by a trap-dour at its lower end. It is continued bya horizontal shaft, 10 ft. in length, to the granite Tomb Chamber (PI. i). 134 Route 6. PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH. Third Pyramid. Immediately before the latter is reached a, flight of seven steps leads tothe right to a chamber with recesses on the right and back walls. Thetomb-chamber is paved with blocks of granite, 21/2 ft. in thickness, andits ceiling has been formed by placing the stones against each other at anangle so as to resemble a roof and then hollowing them ont on the insidein the form of a Gothic arch. The richly decorated sarcophagas of Men-kewre was found here by Col. Vyse in a good state of preservation. Itwas made of basalt and measured externally 2 ft. 7 in. in height. Thelid was gone. Fragments of the inner wooden coffin and of the royalmummy (now in the British Museum) were found in the chamber vessel in which the sarcophagus was being conveyed to Englandwas unfortunately lost off the coast of IfTfirnh^c^t^x^nil^^ The original intention of the builder was to construct a pyramid ona small scale, containing only the sloping corridor I k, leading to a cham-ber at e, smaller than that now existing. But when a larger pyramid wasprojected the corridor abed was formed, leading first to an antechamberand then to a tomb-chamber at «, enlarged by deepening the earlierchamber at that point. Under the New Empire the interior of the pyramidwas ruined by the forcible entry of treasure-seekers -, but probably duringthe Saite period a restoration took place. To this restoration are due thesloping shaft and the granite chamber (i) in which the stone sarcophagusof Menkewre was concealed, as well as the lower-lying room with therecesses. The Second and Third Pyramids are most conveniently visited inthe conrse of the circuit of the Pyramid plateau mentioned at p. inspecting the Great Pyramid visitors usually proceed alongits E. side t
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