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By Ronald Burrows
Certainly a vintage of obtainable archaeological writing, Burrows' learn of historical Crete used to be one of many major participants to the graduation of contemporary knowing of the Minoans. The earliest lines of the Minoan civilization are sketched out sooner than he turns to the historic sessions whilst Minos flourished. The sack of Knossos and the top of the Bronze Age are narrated opposed to the archaeological heritage. conscious of the cultural continuity of classical tales from the island, he introduces the subject of the minotaur and the famed labyrinth of Knossos. For a person attracted to the roots of western civilization, or of the founding of classical civilizations, this ebook is still crucial analyzing.
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P The ascending corridor is 129 feet (39 m) long and only a little over 42 inches high (1 m) which makes ascending it in a crouching posture a back-bending exercise. access tunnel alerted them to the presence of this passage, and they changed direction to link up with this ascending passage and thence into the body of the pyramid. 5 miles (12 km) across the other side of the Nile. These blocks had to be dragged to the river, floated across, and hauled to the building site. Most of these stones have been stripped off by local builders in the not-too-distant past, leaving the inner stones exposed.
The reassembled statue is now in the Cairo Museum. On the east side of the great pyramid are three smaller pyramids. There are no inscriptions in them to identify their owners, but it is usually assumed that the two southern ones belong to Khufu’s queens, Meritites and Henutsen. Some scholars feel that the third one may have been for his mother Hetepheres, because her burial shaft is just to the north of this pyramid, but it would be rather strange for her to have a pyramid and a burial shaft at a distance from the pyramid.
Eighty-two feet (25m) down they found stone blocks plastered together. Under this course of masonry they found a tomb chamber filled with fabulous treasures, one of which bore the name of Hetepheres. It took many months to remove, preserve, and catalogue all these valuables, but at last, on March 3, 1927, the dramatic moment came when they opened the sarcophagus. As the lid rose, those present eagerly leaned forward for their first glimpse of the golden coffin they expected to find beneath. There was a gasp of surprise when they realized that the sarcophagus was empty.