. The eastern nations and Greece. Fig. 15. Ivory Statuette of a King of the First Dynasty ^ (From Petries Abydos, Part II). §24] THE FOURTH DYNASTY 27 of the weapons and implements were still of stone, bone, and of the stone utensils were of exquisite workmanship. Therehad been worked out a calendar which remained unchanged to theend of Egyptian history.^ 24. The Fourth Dynasty (about 2900-2750 ): the PyramidBuilders. The Egyptian architects at first used chiefly crude brick,and constructed tombs andother buildings of only smalldimensions; the age ofgigantic stone constructionbeg
. The eastern nations and Greece. Fig. 15. Ivory Statuette of a King of the First Dynasty ^ (From Petries Abydos, Part II). §24] THE FOURTH DYNASTY 27 of the weapons and implements were still of stone, bone, and of the stone utensils were of exquisite workmanship. Therehad been worked out a calendar which remained unchanged to theend of Egyptian history.^ 24. The Fourth Dynasty (about 2900-2750 ): the PyramidBuilders. The Egyptian architects at first used chiefly crude brick,and constructed tombs andother buildings of only smalldimensions; the age ofgigantic stone constructionbegan with the Pharaohs ofthe Fourth Dynasty, whoreigned at Memphis and arecalled the pyramid builders,though there were pyramidsconstructed both before andlong after this, but none onsuch an irhmense scale asthose erected at this period. Khufu, the Cheops of theGreeks, was the greatest ofthe pyramid builders. Heconstructed the Great Pyra-mid, at Gizeh,— the great-est mass of masonry thathas ever been put togetherby mortal man. ^ A recentfortunate discovery enables us now to look upon the face of thisKhufu (Fig. 16),
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