History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . hough they weresometimes eighty or ninety feet high and weighed as much as athousand tons. This is a burden equal to a great transcontinentaltrain of eleven steel sleeping cars each weighing ninety the train, however, the statue was not cut up into smallerunits, but had to be handled as a single vast burden. Neverthe-less, the engineers of the Empire moved many such giganticfigures for hundreds of miles.^ It is in works of this massive,monumental character that the art of Egypt excelled. 52. Life a
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . hough they weresometimes eighty or ninety feet high and weighed as much as athousand tons. This is a burden equal to a great transcontinentaltrain of eleven steel sleeping cars each weighing ninety the train, however, the statue was not cut up into smallerunits, but had to be handled as a single vast burden. Neverthe-less, the engineers of the Empire moved many such giganticfigures for hundreds of miles.^ It is in works of this massive,monumental character that the art of Egypt excelled. 52. Life and Art of the Empire. Just as at Gizeh, so thecemetery at Thebes tells much of the life of the times which pro-duced it. In the majestic western cliffs (Fig. 17) are cut hundredsof tomb-chapels belonging to the great men of the Empire. Herewere buried the able generals who marched with the Pharaohs on 1 City plans which treat a whole city as a symmetrical and harmonious unit are nowbeginning to be made in America. 2 On the moving of such great burdens, see Ancient Times, Fig.
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