It was one mile and a quarter in length, and there were many bends in it; but this fact affords no fresh proof of Egyptian "symmetrophobia." The enclosures of the two temples were not oriented alike, and the avenues which started squarely from the fronts of each could never have met had they not deviated from their first course.

Finally, it may be said that the inhabitants of Thebes saw about as much of their temples as we see at the present day.

The sanctuary and its immediate surroundings were closed against them; but they had access to the facades, the courts, and even the hypostyle halls, and might admire the masterpieces of their architects as freely as we admire them now.
[14] _Hor-shesu_, "followers," or "servants of Horus," are mentioned in the Turin papyrus as the predecessors of Mena, and are referred to in monumental inscriptions as representing the pre-historic people of Egypt.

It is to the Hor-shesu that Professors Maspero and Mariette attribute the making of the Great Sphinx .-- A.B.E.
[15] For a full description of the oldest funerary chapel known, that of King Sneferu, see W.M.F.

Petrie's _Medum_.
[16] Conf.