108 First Steps in Egyptian, London, 1898. I am mainly indebted to this
useful book and other publications by the same author for the
Egyptian words cited in the following pages. An interesting point,
personally communicated to me by Dr. Wallis Budge, is that the
cardinal points in Egypt were located diagonally, a method which is
shown to have also existed in Central America by the diagonal
orientation of numberless pyramids and buildings.