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We can imagine well the awe and reverence with which

these privileged among men must have gazed upon the closed inner doors, knowing that beyond them the august dead still slept undisturbed. The objects of art alone exceed in beauty and grace any hopes cherished by the most ardent devotees of Egyptian civilization. Graceful caskets, chests, and vases abound. Four enchanting figures of goddesses, attendant on the gilded shrine, rival in their grace and poise the most exquisite examples of Greek sculpture. At last the prophecies have been fulfilled of those who pledged the discovery, in some future time, of works of art that would reveal the true glories of Egypt, and prove hers to have been the supreme civilization of the ancient world.