| William Boyd Dawkins - 1880 - 612 Seiten
...areas, and render them worthless to the farmer. cracks so as to prevent the roof from standing firm. It was a most impressive sight, and one never to be forgotten, to look, after a lapse it may be of 3000 years, upon a piece of work unfinished, with the tools of the workmen still lying where they had... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1891 - 298 Seiten
...respectively by a right and a left-handed man. The day's work over, the men had laid down their tools, ready for the next day's work ; meanwhile the roof had fallen in, and the picks were left there undisturbed through all the intervening centuries, till the reopening of the gallery... | |
| Thomas Thomson - 1896 - 358 Seiten
...quite distinctly visible. " It was a most impressive sight," remarks Mr. Greenwell the discoverer, "and one never to be forgotten, to look after a lapse, it may be, of 3000 years upon a piece of work unfinished with the tools of the workmen still lying where they had... | |
| Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1897 - 272 Seiten
...other, showing in all probability that they had been used respectively by a right and left handed man. The day's work over, the men had laid down each his...tool, ready for the next day's work; meanwhile the root had fallen in and the picks had never been recovered. "I learnt from the workmen that it would... | |
| 1889 - 556 Seiten
...they had been left so many centuries ago." The day's work over, the men had laid down each his pick ready for the next day's work ; meanwhile the roof had fallen in, and they were not removed until thus unearthed by the explorers of the nineteenth century. Beyond this... | |
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