Subterranean burial chamber, Rome, after T.L. Burattini. Engraving from 'Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Hoc est universalis hieroglyphicae veterum doctrinae temporum injuria abolitae instauratio. Opus ex omni Orientalium doctrina et sapientia conditum, nec non viginti diversarum linguarum authoritate stabilitum' by Athanasius Kircher. Between pages 400 and 401 of volume III.

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