1600 talents worth were consumed, according to Herodotus.
during the building of the pyramid of Cheops--L360,000 (in 1881.)] then she helped Uarda, who did not need to be carried, into the house, and invited Nebsecht to share their meal.

He accepted her invitation, for he had eaten nothing since the previous evening.
When the old woman had once more disappeared indoors, he asked the paraschites: "Whose heart is it that you have brought me, and how did it come into your hands ?" "Tell me first," said the other, "why thou hast laid such a heavy sin upon my soul ?" "Because I want to investigate the structure of the human heart," said Nebsecht, "so that, when I meet with diseased hearts, I may be able to cure them." The paraschites looked for a long time at the ground in silence; then he said: "Art thou speaking the truth ?" "Yes," replied the leech with convincing emphasis.

"I am glad," said the old man, "for thou givest help to the poor." "As willingly as to the rich!" exclaimed Nebsecht.

"But tell me now where you got the heart." "I went into the house of the embalmer," said the old man, after he had selected a few large flints, to which, with crafty blows, he gave the shape of knives, "and there I found three bodies in which I had to make the eight prescribed incisions with my flint-knife.

When the dead lie there undressed on the wooden bench they all look alike, and the begger lies as still as the favorite son of a king.