Show the bine of cheop choops was the builder of the pyramid which bears his name and as if to make the structure perpetuate his deeda for ull time to come the very stones and bricks of which it is composed are stamped with his name choops lived nearly 2500 ears ago his great pyramid being an antiquity in the days when the great nations of old were in their youth and yet we of this nineteenth century can have the satisfaction of looking upon the very ring he wore so proudly upon his royal finger the hieroglyphics on the ring are minutely accurate and beautifully executed the ring itself being of finest gold and weighing nearly an ounce the oval signet bears the name of che aps ops which is in hieroglyphics in perfect accord with the stamp on the bricks of the great pyramid this remarkable antiquity was found in a tomb at ghiseh it now reposes in the museum of the new york historical society st louis republic |