208 PYRAMIDS OF DJIZA. 
CHAP, to change, where the rays of the sun do not 
' penetrate. This was the case in the excava- 
tions we have cited, where many tints could be 
distinguished, of a beautiful red, and of a par- 
ticular blue. Colours have remained until our 
day in some royal sepulchres of Biban-d-Moluh, 
which, in my opinion, have been constructed 
before the Pyramids. The walls of great 
edifices, when once coloured, remained so for 
many centuries ; or rather, for ever. The 
Egyptians do not seem to have used any parti- 
cular procedure for making the colours and 
gilding adhere to the wall or the bare rock, as 
some people have supposed. Count Caylus 
says, that the manner of laying them on, prac- 
tised by the Egyptians, was not favourable". 
Like all the Eastern artists, they employed only 
virgin tints, and coloured rather than painted." 
(l) Jntiq. Egtjpt. Etrusc. tfc. vol, I. 
