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Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge; On the Orientation 



Plan II. 



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The Pyramids of Nuirf. 



ruins ; with the exception of the " step " pyramid all are small. Of 

 the pyramids in the second row, six are sufficiently well preserved to 

 afford us a good idea of what they were like when complete. They 

 must have stood upon a slightly elevated site, and they could not have 

 been much less than 100 feet in the side; on the S.E. side each pyra- 

 mid had a shrine or chapel, into the innermost part of which the light 

 from the celestial body to which it was oriented could enter. At each 

 end of the pyramid field was a temple, the size of which it is impossible 



