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Excerpt from Guide to the Cairo Museum <p>The Gizeh Museum, like that of Bulale be/bre it, is now but a thing ofthepast. The moving of the monuments, begun on March 9 1 909 was finished four months later, on the 1 3 offuly. The setting up in the new rooms had, from the beginning, proceeded so as to keep pace with the moving, so that in the early days of August the new Cairo Museum could already, if necessary, have admitted the public no thing remained to be done but to cover over the bases and pedestals, and to give to the walls and pillars the triing repairs always needed after thousands of heavy objects have been moved into place. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.