[275] It is no part of our plan to describe this discovery, which did so much honour both to the perspicacity and the energy of Mariette. We refer all those who are interested in the matter to the article contributed by M. E. Desjardins to the _Revue des Deux-Mondes_ of March 15, 1874, under the title: _Les Découvertes de l'Égyptologie française, les Missions et les Travaux de M. Mariette_. Many precious details will also be found, some of them almost dictated by Mariette, in the _L'Égypte à petites Journeés_ of M. ARTHUR RHONÉ (pp. 212-263). This work includes two plans, a general plan and a detailed plan of the subterranean galleries, which were supplied by the illustrious author of the excavations himself; views of the galleries are also given, and reproductions of various objects found in the course of the exploration. We may also mention the _Choix des Monuments du Sérapéum_, a collection of ten engraved plates published by Mariette, and the great work, unfortunately incomplete, which he commenced under the title: _Le Sérapéum de Memphis_ (folio, Paris, Gide, 1858). In the second volume of _Fouilles et Découvertes_ (Didier, 8vo., 1873, 2 vols.) BEULÉ has given a very good description of the bold but fortunate campaign which, begun in the month of October, 1850, brought fame to a young man who had, until then, both open enmity and secret intrigue to contend against. [Illustration: FIG. 194.--Stele in the Boulak Museum, showing tombs with gardens about them. From Maspero.] [Illustration: FIG. 195.--The sarcophagus of a royal scribe, 19th dynasty. Louvre.] [Illustration: FIG. 196.--Canopic vase of alabaster. Louvre.] [Illustration: FIG. 197.--View of the grand gallery in the Apis Mausoleum; from Mariette.] The funerary architecture of the Sait epoch seems to have had an originality of its own, but we are unable to form an opinion from any existing remains. Not a trace is extant of those tombs in which the princes of the twenty-sixth dynasty were, according to Herodotus, placed one after another. Here are the words of the Greek historian: οἱ δέ (the Egyptians) μιν (Apries) ἀπέπνιξαν, καὶ ἔπειτα ἔθαψαν ἐν τῇσι πατρῴῃσι ταφῇσι--αἱ δέ εἰσι ἐν τῷ ἱρῷ τῆς Ἀθηναίης, ἀγχοτάτω τοῦ μεγάρου ἐσιόντι ἀριστερῆς χερός--ἔθαψαν δὲ Σαΐται πάντας τοὺς ἐκ νομοῦ τούτου γενομένους βασιλέας ἔσω ἐν τῷ ἱρῷ. καὶ γὰρ τὸ τοῦ Ἀμάσιος σῆμα ἑκαστέρω μέν ἐστὶ τοῦ μεγάρου ἢ τὸ τοῦ Ἀπρίεω καὶ τῶν τούτου προπατόρων· ἔστι μέντοι καὶ τοῦτο ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τοῦ ἱροῦ, παστὰς λιθίνη μεγάλη, καὶ ἠσκημένη στύλοισί τε φοίνικας τὰ δένδρεα μεμιμημένοισι, καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ δαπάνῃ. ἔσω δὲ ἐν τῇ παστάδι διξὰ θυρώματα ἕστηκε· ἐν δὲ τοῖσι θυρώμασι ἡ θήκη ἐστὶ.[276]