Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — The Pyramid of Dashur. [ARTICLE]

The Pyramid of Dashur.

“M. de Morgan, Chief of the Antiquities Department, claims to have made the discovery of the long-sought entrance to the mysterious brick Pyramid of Dashur, near Saqqara. After numerous borings in the ground surrounding the pyramid, he found, twenty-seven feet below the surtace, a gallery 230 feet long, cut in the rock, and inclining upward toward the pyramid. Fifteen chambers were found, containing numerous tombs and sarcophagi of high functionaries (among them the sarcophagus of a queen), all of the XHth Dynasty, over 2.000 years before Christ. It is expected that further researches will reveal the sarcophagus of Kihg Usurtesen lll.—London Times.