SARCOPHAGUS, OR COFFIN. (_With Noah's Ark Cut in Relief on the Outside_) 841 COFFIN OF ALABASTER. (_Features of the Deceased Sculptured_) 843 DISCOVERED TOMB WITH ITS TREASURES. (_At Pompeii_) 847 ARTICLES FOUND IN A TOMB 852 HIEROGLYPHICS 857, 858, 859 EGYPTIAN PILLAR 862 EGYPTIAN COLUMN 867 SECTIONS OF THE CATACOMBS WITH CHAMBERS 874 PLAN OF THE CATACOMBS AT ROME 875 STONE COFFIN 878 STONE COFFIN WITH OPEN SIDE 879 INSIDE VIEW OF THE CATACOMBS 881 LAMPS FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 884 TOMB INSCRIPTION 896 PAINTED CEILING 906 CHAMBER OF A CATACOMB 909 FRIEZE FROM THE ARCH OF TITUS 916 PENTATEUCH, WRITTEN 3200 YEARS AGO 921 SHISHAK AND HIS CAPTIVES ON SCULPTURED WALL AT KARNAC 935 PORTRAIT OF REHOBOAM 936 [Page Decoration] [Page Decoration] ADDRESS TO THE MUMMY. "And thou hast walked about, (how strange a story!) In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. "Perhaps that very hand now pinioned flat, Has hob-a-nobbed with Pharaoh, glass to glass; Or dropped a half-penny in Homer's hat; Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass; Or held, by Solomon's own invitation, A torch at the great Temple's dedication. "Thou couldst develop--if that withered tongue Could tell us what those sightless orbs have seen-- How the world looked when it was fresh and young And the great deluge still had left it green; Or was it then so old that history's pages Contained no record of its early ages? "Since first thy form was in this box extended We have, above ground, seen some strange mutations; The Roman Empire has begun and ended, New worlds have risen--we have lost old nations; And countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled.