...cut like glass. After getting through these passages, some of them two or three hundred yards long, you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps high enough to sit. But what a place to rest, surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions, which, previous to my being accustomed...

...cut like glass. After getting through these passages, some of them two or three hundred yards long, you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps...the wall; the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air; the different objects that were around me seeming to converse with each other;...

...passages, some of them two or three hundred yards long," he says, describing one of his mummy-raids, "you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps...accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. . . . After the exertion of entering into such a place, through a passage of fifty, a hundred, three...

...passages, some of them two or three hundred yards long," he says, describing one of his mummy-raids, "you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps...accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. . . . After the exertion of entering into such a place, through a passage of fifty, a hundred, three...

...not its least merit. I quote from the pamphlet Belzoni's account of his penetrations among the tombs. But what a place of rest! surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies on every side, which, previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. The blackness...

...through these passages, some of them two or three hunlirc'l yards long, you generally find a nuire commodious ! place, perhaps high enough to sit. But what a place of rest ! surrounded hy bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions, which, previous to my being accustomed to the sight,...

...cut like glass. After getting through those passages, some of them two or three thousand yards long, you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps...the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other,...

...Belzoni (d. 1823) recorded his entry into a Theban tomb for the purpose of searching for papyri: [I was] surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions;...accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror — After the exertion of entering into such a place ... nearly overcome, I sought a resting-place,...

...confessed the Italian adventurer Giovanni Belzoni, the most notorious and popular of early tomb raiders. "But what a place of rest! Surrounded by bodies, by...my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror."56 The protracted balancing act performed by these Egyptian funereal icons — forever at rest...

...275 meters (300 yards) long, the sweating Italian could sometimes find a place to sit down and rest: But what a place of rest! surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions; the blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different...