 It contains two .kinds of rooms, some under ground and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each. The rooms above ground, I myself went through, and saw, and relate from personal inspection. But the underground...  Queer Things about Egypt - Page 245by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1911 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1868 - 634 pages
...above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal inspection ; but the under ground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians...crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have learned by hearsay concerning the lower rooms; but the upper ones, which surpass all human works, I... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 342 pages
...for the Egyptians who have charge of the building would on no account show me them, saying, that they were the sepulchres of the kings who originally built...which surpass all human works, I myself saw ; for the passage through the corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented... | |
 | Herodotus - 1892 - 630 pages
...above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal inspection ; but the under ground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians...built this labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles. J can therefore only relate what I have learned by hearsay concerning the lower rooms ; but the upper... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1893 - 456 pages
...ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fi•een hundred of each. The rooms above ground I myself went through, and saw, and relate from personal...which surpass all human works, I myself saw ; for the passage through the corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented... | |
 | Herodotus - 1899 - 626 pages
...ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each. The rooms above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal...crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have learned by hearsay concerning the lower rooms ; but the upper ones, which surpass all human works,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 244 pages
...on "no account, show me them, saying, that there were " the sepulchres of the kings who originaily built this " labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles....windings " through the courts, from their great variety, pre" sented a thousand occasions of wonder, as I passed "from a court to the rooms, and from the rooms... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1907 - 996 pages
...ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each. The rooms above ground, I myself went through, and saw, and relate from personal...courts, from their great variety, presented a thousand occa sions of wonder, as I passed from a court to the rooms, and from the rooms to halls, and to other... | |
 | Janet R. Buttles - 1908 - 314 pages
...the Egyptians who have charge of the " building would on no account show me them, saying that " these were the sepulchres of the kings who originally " built this Labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles."1 Wonderful tales of the marvels of this place are related by other writers, who agree... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1912 - 462 pages
...above ground over them to the number of three thousand, fifteen hundred of each. The rooms above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal...crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have learned by hearsay concerning the lower rooms ; but the upper ones, which surpass all human works,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...and some " above ground over them, to the number of 3,000, 1,500 " of each. The rooms above ground I myself went through, " and saw, and relate from...which surpass all human works, I myself saw ; for the passage through the corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented... | |
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