#emmabandrewsdiary

‪#‎emmabandrewsdiary‬  We passed Helouan in the distance, a fashionable health resort, and through a dip in the Mokattam hills, caught a last glimpse of the slender minarets of the Citadel. We passed Bedrashyn where one of Cook's boats was lying on its way up the Nile, with dozens of white helmetted tourists just returned from Memphis and Sakkarah. Then all the Pyramids began to unfold themselves to our delighted eyes - first those of Ghizeh - then the Sakkarah group with its stepped pyramid - the blunted outline of Aboesir, then Dashoor with its strange curving side, then Meydoum with its three shelved pyramid. A lovely sunset finished the bright day, so full of novelty and pleasure - and the young moon about 5 days old made the night, when it had descended, brilliant.

#EmmaBAndrewsDiary  Discovering Tomb of #Tuthmosis IV: "A huge rope had been carried in, one end held by several workmen outside, and the electrical engineer with a coil of electric wire had preceded us, - holding to the rope, and with Jones to take care of me, I followed Maspero and Theo. 20 ft. or more down an almost perpendicular incline over large loose chips of sandstone.  Then we came to a long incline very steep, and most unpleasantly low, so that we were forced to sit down and scramble along as best we could.  Maspero being so stout had to actually lie down, with his feet sometimes on Carter’s shoulders.  It was a great consolation to have the brilliant electric light." Figure from Andrews Diary.