The high-water mark of the reservoir when full
is ------ and, as there were no visible means for pumping it out, the
mummy-chamber could not be entered." With regard to the Bagarawiya
pyramids, Dr. Budge writes, on p. 700 of the same work, a propos of the
story of the Italian Ferlini that he found Roman jewelry in one of these
pyramids: "In 1903 the writer excavated a number of the pyramids of
Meroe for the Governor-General of the Sudan, Sir F. R. Wingate, and
he is convinced that the statements made by Ferlini are the result of
misapprehension on his part. The pyramids are solid throughout, and the
bodies are buried under them. When the details are complete the proofs
for this will be published." Dr. Budge has also written upon the subject
of the orientation of the Jebel Barkal and Nure pyramids.
[Illustration: 454.jpg THE ISLE OF KONOSSO, WITH ITS INSCRIPTIONS]
It is very curious to find the pyramids reappearing in Egyptian
tomb-architecture in the very latest period of Egyptian history. We
find them when Egyptian civilization was just entering upon its vigorous
manhood, then they gradually disappear, only to revive in its decadent
and exiled old age. The Ethiopian pyramids are all of much more
elongated form than the old Egyptian ones. It is possible that they may
be a survival of the archaistic movement of the XXVIth Dynasty, to which
we have already referred.
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