As we stand here we have Memphis behind us and Cairo on our right. We have ascended a ridge of sand, bringing into view this granite building, which lies too deeply embedded in the sands to be seen from below. The rough wall which you see on the farther side is but the core of a wall once splendidly cased with granite.

Mariette, who discovered the building in 1853, found a wall from which he took no less than seven portrait statues of Khafre, the builder of the second pyramid; this building here was erected by him and belongs to the same period as the pyramids.
It is the massive, monumental gateway, forming the entrance to the masonry causeway leading up to the pyramid temple on the east front of the second pyramid. We have retained the term ‘temple’ in the title only to avoid misleading those numerous travelers who only know the building as a temple, which it has so long been supposed to be.

Up through this monumental portal passed the white-robed processions in the departed Pharaoh’s honor to ascend to where the periodic feasts of the temple calendar were celebrated. Many a problem which now vexes the student of this remote age would be solved if we could have stood on the now vanished floor of the roof court which crowned this great gateway, and looked down on such a celebration. It is a structure worthy of the builder of such a pyramid and its walls and floor of polished granite and translucent alabaster make it one of the most magnificent monuments of Egypt.

(Stereographs 2534-6 give nearer views of the Pyramid. Nos. 2537-9 give outlooks from its summit.)
(From “Egypt Through the Stereoscope” by James H. Breasted, Ph.D., with twenty patent maps and plans.

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