** It is pretty generally admitted, but without convincing proofs, that the pyramids of Abûsîr served as tombs for the Pharaohs in the Vth dynasty, one for Sahûrî, another to Ûsirnirî Anû, although Wiedemann considers that the truncated pyramid of Dahshur was the tomb of this king. I am inclined to think that one of the pyramids of Saqqâra was constructed by Assi; the pyramid of Unas was opened in 1881, and the results made known by Maspero, _Études de Mythologie et d’Archéologie_, vol. i. p. 150, et seq., and _Recueil de Travaux_, vols. iv. and v. The names of the majority of the pyramids are known to us from the monuments: that of Ûsirkaf was called “Ûâbisîtu”; that of Sahûrî, “Khâbi”; that of Nofiririkerî, “Bi”; that of Anû, “Min-isûîtû”; that of Menkaûhorû, “Nûtirisûîtû”; that of Assi, “Nutir”; that of Unas, “Nofir-isûîtû.” *** Pa Sahûrî, near Esneh, for instance, was built by Sahûrî. The modern name of the village of Sahoura still preserves, on the same spot, without the inhabitants suspecting it, the name of the ancient Pharaoh. [Illustration: 210.jpg STATUE IN ROSE-COLOURED GRANITE OF THE PHARAOH ANÛ, IN THE GÎZEH MUSEUM] Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey. The Bedouin of the Sinaitic peninsula gave them much to do. Sahûrî brought these nomads to reason, and perpetuated the memory of his victories by a stele, engraved on the face of one of the rocks in the Wady Magharah; Anû obtained some successes over them, and Assi repulsed them in the fourth year of his reign. On the whole, they maintained Egypt in the position of prosperity and splendour to which their predecessors had raised it. In one respect they even increased it. Egypt was not so far isolated from the rest of the world as to prevent her inhabitants from knowing, either by personal contact or by hearsay, at least some of the peoples dwelling outside Africa, to the north and east. [Illustration: 217.jpg TRIUMPHAL BAS-RELIEF OF PHARAOH SAHÛRÛ, ON THE ROCKS OF WADY MAGHARAH.] Drawn by Boudier, from the water-colour published in Lepsius, _Denhn._, i. pl. 8, No. 2