Benee Hasan. – Masgoon. – Pyramids of Dashoor and Sakkára. – Memphis. – Mummy Pits. – Consecration of Brutes.

The tombs throughout are not sculptured, except the hieroglyphic inscriptions, but painted on plaster. In many places the plaster seems to have been purposely broken or scraped away, - so hard is the material, and so vivid the painting, in the corners that are left. This ruin was probably wrought by the Christians, who have elsewhere cut their crosses deep into the very figures on the walls. There are multitudes of pairs of wrestlers in what are called the military pictures; and these pairs are of a darker and lighter red, so as to show distinctly the intertwining of the lithe limbs. The brick Pyramids of Dashoor are now crumbled down into mere ruin.