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| Great Sphinx and Pyramid (Khafre) |
FACT NOT FICTION:
The ancient Egyptian word for
the pyramid means to ascend… ascend to the sky.
FACT NOT FICTION:
Nobody knows what unimaginable treasure was
once stashed within the mute, granite-lined walls of the King’s Chamber of the
Great Pyramid of Khufu – totally empty for millennia.
FACT NOT FICTION:
There
was once a large timber frame in the King’s Chamber, as though the precious
contents were carefully crated up for transportation… where to? And how? The
low entrance to the chamber is only 3 ½ feet high. The chamber itself lies
sequestered within a mountain of limestone blocks – over 2½ million of them, weighing from
two to seventy tons each.
FACT NOT FICTION:
The early proto-pyramids, the
mastabas, contained all the possessions the king would need for his journey to
the afterlife, thousands of jars, food, wine… where are the signs of these in
the pyramids?
FACT NOT FICTION:
The future survival of the
pharaoh and his joining the gods was a collective salvation… which explains why
the Egyptians worked with such a ‘superhuman’ will to construct the pyramids.
FACT NOT FICTION:
Some great heat, pulse or explosion seems to
have taken place in the pyramid in ancient times, revealed in the King’s
Chamber by cracks in the ceiling and the heat darkened stone, especially the
coffer, changing from rose granite to a coffee coloured tone. The ceiling
cracks cannot be the result of an earthquake, since no similar damage appears
in the epicentre galleries of the pyramid.
FACT NOT FICTION:
The Great Pyramid is unique. No
other pyramid has such an elaborate interior structure and dizzying numbers. The
level of workmanship puts it in a stratosphere of its own. The Great Pyramid
has companions, yet stands alone
