what about herodotus' account of solon's trip and some kinda catacombs underneath the pyramiids that solon states are more impressive than the
pyramids themselves?
A GLANCE AT THE PYRAMIDS WITH HEKODOTUS.
THE following lines were intended to give a general idea of Hero-
dotus' account of the Pyramids, and also of his style of narrative
and argument in many of his episodes. A kind of dreamy inconse-
quence often blends with an appearance and evident intention of ex-
actness and investigation ; we feel as if a great deal had passed before
our eyes, but had only left a vague and not very definite impression
of grandeur and antiquity. The inscription on the fifth, or brick
pyramid, in which it deprecates contemptuous comparisons, is
slightly altered. In Herodotus it is addressed to the passer by ; and
no allusion is made, as in the ballad, to the " guilt " connected with
the origin of the stone pyramids. But as some doubt may be felt as
to the correctness of the interpretation given to Herodotus by the
priests, it is hoped the liberty taken with the text may be excused.
THEY rose in wicked Cheops' reign,
And his worse son Chephreen ;
So say the priests who tend the fane
Of the great Egyptian Queen ;
And the royal maid her lovers prayed,
Who built a third between.
n.
Memorials of those evil days
The mighty monsters stand,
And all on them with wonder gaze
Who seek th' Egyptian land,
1 ii. 134 137, passim.
To make it took ten years, as I said—or rather to make the causeway, the works on the mound where the pyramid stands, and the underground chambers, which Cheops intended as vaults for his own use: these last were built on a sort of island, surrounded by water introduced