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 | | These learned Thebans tell us little of the Pyramids, and it grieves us to read of an ec- clesiastic, though of the idolatrous persuasion, the terms in which that little is introduced by Syncellus, who knew his author best. |
 | | Another point to be noted is, that the~ vaults are entered by sloping passages open- ing high in the northern face of each pyramid,. |
 | | There is no trace of any idolatrous building in Lower Egypt before the Theban Amosis, who, according to an in- scription yet remaining in the quarry, built the temple of Phthah at Memphis, in the twenty-second year of his reign. |
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