The great pyramid passages and chambers

PLATE XCV. Shall we say there is no connection between these two pyramids and Zechariah’s reference to a head-stone? We must always remember that there is only the one witness to the Lord in Egypt, the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, for all the other pyramids are subsequent erections, and more or less copies of the Great one. This fact is well proven by Professor Petrie. After detailing a series of wellconsidered arguments, he states that there can be no reasonable doubt that nothing but ‘ta bare sandblown rise of hill attracted the attention of Khufu [whom he understands to have been the builder] for

Zechariah's tomb, from the south; showing also the window-like openings of St, James’ tomb.

the site of his great monument”; and that the part of the hill on which it stands ‘is certainly the finest site for miles on either side of it.’ This opinion is the one held also by Professor Smyth and many other competent authorities.

402 But not only was the Great Pyramid of Gizeh the first pyramid to be erected, but the pyramid structure proper is entirely peculiar to the Land of Egypt. Professor C, Piazzi Smyth, in his work Antiquity of Intellectual man, proves conclusively that the so-called pyramids of Mexico, Assyria, Babylonia, etc., do not answer to the requirements of the strictly geometrical definition of a pyramid, namely: ‘a solid,

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