The cliffs fall steeply away, sometimes with a sheer descent; sometimes in a succession of terraces, and from them rise up pyramids and pinnacles of rock; the wonders of the valley.
Whether suffering death at the hands of the Persia Magi, or being built alive by Tamerlane into pyramids of hideous glory, scarcely a generation has passed to the grave without giving up its heroes and martyrs to the Cross of Christ.
Harry saw a vast bank of fire and smoke and then he saw shooting above it pyramids and spires of flame.
The great uplifts and projections of stone assumed the shapes of castles and pyramids and churches.
These ornamentalpyramids begin with doorposts of single stones 60 ft.
When they leave the hands of the builder they are either cubes or parallelopipeds, pyramids or prisms, cylinders or cones.
The problem was a much simpler one in the cases of the pyramids in Lake Mœris.
The pyramids differ also in the materials employed.
The observations made by Lepsius in the Stepped Pyramid and in one at Abousir seem to prove that some pyramidswere constructed in this manner.
The pyramids of Memphis, one of them the greatest building upon earth, stand upon enormous bases.
Lepsius's first volume (map of the pyramids of Gizeh and panorama taken from the summit of the second pyramid).
The great pyramidsat Gizeh are built of fine limestone from Mokattam and Toura; the chief one at Sakkarah of a bad clayish limestone from the neighbouring rocks; at Dashour and Abou-Roash there are pyramids of unburnt brick.
The great pyramid and the small pyramids at its foot; from Perring.
Their proportions are not constant, but the height of the Nubian pyramids is always far greater than the length of one side at its base.
He has observed that the pyramids are, so to speak, grouped chronologically from north to south; those of the fourth dynasty at Gizeh, those of the fifth at Abooseer, those of the twelfth in the Fayoum.
In the pyramids the corridor which leads to the mummy-chamber is sometimes an ascending plane, but in the Theban tomb it is always descending.
The Tomb under the Ancient Empire The Mastabas of the Necropolis of Memphis The Pyramids § 3.
It has been suggested by Mr. Cope Whitehouse that the nucleus of rock under the great pyramids was originally much more important than is commonly supposed.
The desert sands have overwhelmed its famous avenue of sphinxes; and the great Pyramids of Gizeh, and the colossal Sphinx, are the chief memorials of the past in its vicinity.
They are usually given as follows: (i) The Pyramidsof Egypt.
Although various opinions have prevailed as to their use, the Pyramids were really nothing more than the tombs of monarchs of Egypt who flourished from the first to the twelfth dynasty.
Illustration: The Egyptian features are as unchangeable as the pyramids themselves.
Not only the Israelites but the Egyptians as well were forced into service to build the great Pyramids to immortalize Egypt’s rulers.
Of about forty pyramids now left standing in Middle Egypt, the most remarkable are the group of nine at Gizeh, near the site of ancient Memphis.
With the exception of some very late pyramids in Nubia, none were constructed after the twelfth dynasty; the later kings were buried at Abydos, Thebes, and other places, in tombs of a totally different construction.
Three pyramids surpass all the rest by their prodigious size; these are at Ghizeh and belong to the fourth dynasty.
At Meroë arepyramids of the Ethiopic kings of the Decadence.
Among the other pyramids there is considerable variety both of type and material.
The pyramids and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus are the most imposing and elaborate outgrowths of this practice, of which the prehistoric tumuli are the simpler manifestations.
The other two pyramids differ from that of Cheops in the details of their arrangement and in size, not in the principle of their construction.
We are about starting to the illustrious Pyramids of Egypt, and the donkeys for the voyage are under inspection.
At the distance of a few miles the Pyramids rising above the palms, looked very clean-cut, very grand and imposing, and very soft and filmy, as well.
I always thought ill of people at home who trimmed their shrubbery into pyramids and squares and spires and all manner of unnatural shapes, and when I saw the same thing being practiced in this great park I began to feel dissatisfied.
If we were lying in sight of the Pyramids of Egypt, they would not come on deck until after breakfast, now-a-days.
The reflection that he must some day be taken apart like an engine or a clock, or like a house whose owner is gone, and worked up into arches and pyramids and hideous frescoes, did not distress this monk in the least.
They existed in the age of the Pharaohs, and rival in antiquity, in massive grandeur, and in perfect preservation, the Pyramids of Egypt.
Its influences will last when even thePyramids have passed away.
They had seen the Pyramidswhich had already stood for twenty centuries, the hieroglyph-covered obelisks of Luxor, avenues of silent and mysterious sphinxes, colossi of monarchs who reigned in the morning of the world.
In the central space, between the rows of pillars, immense chandeliers dropped from the rafters, so covered with lamps that they looked like pyramids aglow.
Egypt, the home of the Pyramids and the Sphinx, was the birthplace of the Hidden Wisdom and Mystic Teachings.
There are also some Egyptian harps; portions of flutes found in the northern brick pyramids at Dashour; a pipe with seven burnt holes in it; and a pair of bronze cymbals tied together by a band of linen.
Peeping above the sands which surround the famous pyramids of Gizeh, is the upper part of a man-headed sphinx.
Here one frowning terrace rises above another; there the glacier swells and rises into huge pinnacles and towering pyramids of purest ice.
I know this, however, whether he walked, rode an ass, or was driven in a carriage of state, he enjoyed the Pyramids not one whit more than I do.
Deep down in the Pyramids were left open chambers and passages, as the burial places of the illustrious builder and his family.
As one sees these pinnacles and pyramids of purest azure ice bathed in the golden splendor of the setting sun, their shining steps look like a crystal stairway reaching from earth to heaven.
Sometimes very tall slim pyramids are made, becoming almost pillars of foliage and fruit in their old age.
Especially if some sort of formal gardening is attempted, the cordons, espaliers and pyramids exactly suit the demands.
Lake Moeris itself, whose origin he ascribes to the hand of man, and the two Pyramids which are situated a little above the lake.
These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to use in the present connexion.
The first time that I went to the Pyramids of Ghizeh there were a number of Arabs hanging about in its neighbourhood, and wanting to receive presents on various pretences; their Sheik was with them.
I visited the very ancient Pyramidsof Aboukir and Sakkara.
I secretly smiled at this last prophecy as a “bad shot,” for I had fully determined after visiting the Pyramids to take ship from Alexandria for Greece.
When I went to see the pyramids of Sakkara I was the guest of a noble old fellow, an Osmanlee, whose soft rolling language it was a luxury to hear after suffering, as I had suffered of late, from the shrieking tongue of the Arabs.
Next morning all the pyramids were found covered with drawings.
It is as though the ancient builders looked for such natural pyramids purposely.
In pyramids as well as in caves everything seems to be calculated with geometrical exactitude.
On the summit there is a wide extensive level, the eastern part of which is occupied by three truncated cones, resembling the smaller mounds found among the pyramids of Teotihuacan.
But the remains of edifices, pyramids and tombs were not the only relics found by the traveller in these dense forests bordering the Atlantic coast.
Not far from the camp of the Hasnardar, some ruins and several small pyramids attracted my attention.
We passed one small island, which the natives said was called also Meroe, as well as the site where we found the pyramids and temple below.
If there were any pyramids near Saba, I should believe it to be the ancient Meroe, because Josephus represents that the ancient name of Meroe was "Saba.
In view from this place, many other pyramids were in view higher up the river, on the opposite bank, one of them large.
This circumstance gave me an opportunity of visiting the Pyramids which I have mentioned as in view from Meroe.
Pyramids of Egypt,' I answered, laughingly, from the threshold.
Soldiers, from the top of yon pyramids the forty thieves look down upon you!
I feel persuaded that the ancient Egyptians took their designs for monuments and buildings from the hills themselves, and raised in the plains of Lower Egypt artificial pyramids in imitation of the granite hills of this form.
So exactly do they resemble artificial pyramidsat a distance, that it is difficult to believe they are natural objects.
Nevertheless, throughout that desert, and neglected wilderness, the Nile has flowed for ages, and the people upon its banks are as wild and uncivilized at the present day as they were when the Pyramids were raised in Lower Egypt.
There are the vast Pyramids that have defied time; the river upon which Moses was cradled in infancy; the same sandy deserts through which he led his people; and the watering-places where their flocks were led to drink.
Memphis was a town in Egypt near to which the pyramids were built.
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