Under the Ptolemies and the Caesars, figures and hieroglyphs became so crowded that the stone on which they are sculptured seems to be lost under the masses of ornament with which it is charged.

We recognise at a glance that these scenes are not placed at random.

They follow in sequence, are interlinked, and form as it were a great mystic book in which the official relations between gods and men, as well as between men and gods, are clearly set forth for such as are skilled to read them.

The temple was built in the likeness of the world, as the world was known to the Egyptians.

The earth, as they believed, was a flat and shallow plane, longer than its width.