It was simply stifling.

This chamber is a square room cut in the rock and totally devoid of paintings or sculpture.

I held up the candles and looked round.

About the place were strewn the coffin lids and the mummied remains of the two bodies that the Arabs had previously violated.

The paintings on the former were, I noticed, of great beauty, though, having no knowledge of hieroglyphics, I could not decipher them.