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Egypt (La Mort De Philae)

CHAPTER XVII
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They gathered the smallest fragments with a solicitude almost religious.

That they might lose nothing they even sifted the rubbish and the dust.

But, as for Amenophis, who was already nothing more than a lamentable mummy, without jewels or bandages, they left him at the bottom of his sarcophagus of sandstone.

And since that day, doomed to receive each morning numerous people of a strange aspect, he dwells alone in his hypogeum, where there is now neither a being nor a thing belonging to his time.
But yes, there is! We had not looked all round.

There in one of the lateral chambers some bodies are lying, dead bodies--three corpses (unswathed at the time of the pillage), side by side on their rags.
First, a woman, the queen probably, with loosened hair.


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