Show where ancients excelled although tunneling is among the most ancient ot of enterprises more progress has been made in the last century than lit in the twenty centuries which preceded it it I 1 is now known that back lit in the al days of the theban kings the long tunnel into the mountain rock expanding at a dis torce of feet or so into some lofty chamber was a common work the rock temples of nubia and india too show that in certain matters at any rate moderns may still learn from the ancients |