Note 332 — Chapter VI · THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.
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When visiting the ‘Tombs of the Soldans,’ Cairo, I found a slab of blue basalt bearing the cartouche of Khufu, used as a threshold for one of the buildings. The characters had been partly erased; but the material was too hard for the barbarians who had misused it.