Identifier: wanderingsinbibl00mill (find matches)
Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d ratherthan scattered by some upheaval of nature. Here the Arab guide suddenly stopped and said, 1 hisis the place In a short time the stones, which to a cas-ual observer looked as if they had not been disturbed forcenturies were removed and the mouth of a shaft was dis-closed Ahmed had not led Brugsch astray. He had re-vealed his long-kept secret. Ropes were secured, a heavypalm log was laid across the mouth of the shaft, and slow-ly the stones were all removed. It was found that theshaft was forty feet deep and six feet square. It had beencut down into the living rock. . By means of a rope Brugsch now went down into theshaft Reaching the bottom he found a subterranean pas-sage which ran westward twenty-four feet, and then, turn-ing northward at a right angle, continued into the heart of WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 237 the mountain. The explorer pressed anxiously forward, historch only dimly lighting the passage in the bowels of themountain. The passage finally terminated in a burial
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The Mummy Head of Seti I, Father of the Pharaohof the Oppression. From a Photograph. chamber thirteen feet wide, twenty-three feet long and sixfeet high. It was not a large place, and yet it was largeenough to hold the treasures so long and so eagerly soughtfor in vain. In this secret underground chamber the director foundpiled up, not only the coffin of the Pharaoh of the op- 238 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. pression, but the sarcophagi which contained the bodiesof thirty-eight kings, queens, princes and high priests ofancient Egypt. The mountain gave up its dead, and thePharaoh who set hard taskmasters over Israel was takenfrom his second resting-place. It may now be seen by all who visit Cairo. Herr Brugsch gave the following account of the findingof the royal mummies to Mr. Wilson:* Finding Pharaohwas an exciting experience to me. It is true I was armedto the teeth, and my faithful rifle, full of shells, hung overmy shoulder; but my assistant from Cairo, Ahmed EffendiKemal, was the

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