The mystery of the Great pyramid : traditions concerning it and its connection with the Egyptian Book of the dead : with numerous illustrations

MYSTERY OF THE GREAT PYRAMID

of the Ascending Passage. When, therefore, in position, it shut off all approach to the Queen’s Chamber, as the ceiling stone in the Descending Passage concealed the position of the Granite Plug and passage beyond. As, however, this slab is now missing, and no fragments from it have been noticed by any pyramid explorer in the past, it is quite possible, after the Gallery was finished and the rungs cut out, it was taken away by the builder, as only for temporary use during building operations. Owing to the gap now left between the floor of the Ascending Passage and that of the Grand Gallery, access to the latter is gained by means of the ramp on the east side at the base of the Gallery wall, the continuity of the other being broken by the mouth of the well-shaft.

Note N: Tue Kinc’s AND QUEEN’S CHAMBERS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID (page 40)

It should be understood that there is no particular significance in naming the two principal apartments in the Great Pyramid the King’s and Queen’s Chamber respectively. Since it is the custom for a man’s tomb to have a flat top, as the King’s Chamber appears to have from the chamber itself, and for a woman’s to have a gable roof, the Arabs, noticing these peculiarities when these chambers were first entered, gave them this description, which has clung to them ever since, and which has been accepted by many as proof of the Tombic Theory of the Great Pyramid.

Note O: EGYPToLOGISTS AND THE GREAT PYRAMID (page 48)

The attitude of specialists in general and Egyptologists in particular has been well and shrewdly summed up by Anatole France in the following observation : “ One should never ask a savant the secrets of the universe that are not in his particular showcase: he takes no interest in them.” The truth of this statement is nowhere better illustrated than in the attitude of Egyptologists as a body towards

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