. William H. Seward's travels around the world. cerning the conception ofthe Sphinx. It was built after the Pyramid of Cheops. Most ofthe innumerable pictures of the Sphinx are in profile. A frontview shows that the face, especially the nose, has been the expression is one of supreme benignity. TheSphinx does not seem to wonder while it excites the wonder of thebeholder. The effect cannot be conceived unless, together with thecolossal figure itself, we bring up its associations. Taken withthese, the grim gigantic Pyramids, the indefinable debris, and thecloudless, treele
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. cerning the conception ofthe Sphinx. It was built after the Pyramid of Cheops. Most ofthe innumerable pictures of the Sphinx are in profile. A frontview shows that the face, especially the nose, has been the expression is one of supreme benignity. TheSphinx does not seem to wonder while it excites the wonder of thebeholder. The effect cannot be conceived unless, together with thecolossal figure itself, we bring up its associations. Taken withthese, the grim gigantic Pyramids, the indefinable debris, and thecloudless, treeless, limitless sterility of the scene, and they awakenin the beholder imaginations of events and of men of whommemory, history, and tradition, alike fail to impart any Bey, an indefatigable antiquary in the Khedives service, MARIETTE BEY. 501 has within the last six years excavated an area between Cheopsand the Sphinx, in which he found a subterranean temple. Weexplored it. It is one story high, built entirely of red granite,. THE SPHINX. without arches, inscriptions, ornaments, painting, or sculpture ofany kind. It contains ten spacious chambers, all opening intoeach other. Mariette Bey has been unable to form an opinionwhether this temple was designed as a place of worship of theremains of the kings interred in the Pyramids, or whether it is atemple erected for the worship of the god Anaraches, who is sup-posed by some antiquaries to be represented by the Sphinx, No unsophisticated person, who for the first time sees the Pyra-mids, the sarcophagus of Cheops, the newly-disclosed temple, and 502 EGYPT AND PALESTINE. the Sphinx, can for a moment doubt that they are simply sepulchresof the dead, safe depositories, where the embalmed bodies of thekings might rest in secure concealment during their appointed know from history that the ancient Egyptians believed, after amanner, in the resurrection of the dead. They believed that thedeparted spirit would pas
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