. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . us to realize that fifty centuries have elapsedsince they were made. We are tempted to imagine that the royal ladies towhom they belonged must still be waiting within earshot, ready to reply to oursummons as soon as we deign to call them ; we may even anticipate the joy theywill evince when these sumptuous ornaments are restored to them, and we needto glance at the worm-eaten coffins which contain their stiff and disfigured mum-mies to recall our imagination to the stern reality of Two other pyramids,but in this case of stone, still exist
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . us to realize that fifty centuries have elapsedsince they were made. We are tempted to imagine that the royal ladies towhom they belonged must still be waiting within earshot, ready to reply to oursummons as soon as we deign to call them ; we may even anticipate the joy theywill evince when these sumptuous ornaments are restored to them, and we needto glance at the worm-eaten coffins which contain their stiff and disfigured mum-mies to recall our imagination to the stern reality of Two other pyramids,but in this case of stone, still exist further south, to the left of the village ofLisbt :3 their casing, torn off by the fellahîn, has entirely disappeared, and from adistance they appear to be merely two mounds which break the desert horizon line,rather than two buildings raised by the hand of man. The sepulchral chambers,excavated at a great depth in the sand, are now filled with water which hasinfiltrated through the soil, and they have not as yet been sufficiently emptied to. PECTORAL ORNAMENT OF ÛSIRTASEN 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gud in, from a photograph by Emit Brugsch-Bey. 2 These are the jewels discovered by M. de Morgan in 1894, during his excavations in the neigh-bourhood of the pyramid of Dahshur (cf. the Comptes Rendus de lAcadémie des Inscriptions,1894, and published now by him in the first volume of Dahshour). 3 These pyramids, referred to by Jomard, Description des Antiquités de VHeptanomide (in theDescription de lEgypte, vol. iv. pp. 429, 430), and by Perring-Vyse, Operations carried on, vol. 77, 78, were opened between 1882 and 1886. It was not possible to explore the chambers (Maspero,Etudes de Mythologie et dArchéologie Egyptiennes, vol. i. pp. 148, 149). Excavations conducted byGautier have led, in 1895, to the discovery of eleven statues of King Ûsirtasen I., in the ruins of theexterior chapel; cf. Guide du Visiteur, pp. 222, 223, Nos. 1051-1057). TEE PTE AMID S OF ILLAEUN AND OF
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