The stone door having fallen into the entrance I passed over it into the tomb, noting as I went a long iron chain which hung coiled on a bracket close to the doorway.
"The tomb I found to be complete, after the manner of the finest Egyptian tombs, with chamber and shaft leading down to the corridor, ending in the Mummy Pit.

It had the table of pictures, which seems some kind of record--whose meaning is now for ever lost--graven in a wondrous colour on a wondrous stone.
"All the walls of the chamber and the passage were carved with strange writings in the uncanny form mentioned.

The huge stone coffin or sarcophagus in the deep pit was marvellously graven throughout with signs.

The Arab chief and two others who ventured into the tomb with me, and who were evidently used to such grim explorations, managed to take the cover from the sarcophagus without breaking it.

At which they wondered; for such good fortune, they said, did not usually attend such efforts.