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

AUTHOR’S NOTE

We wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to the various writers from whom we have quoted in the following pages, and particularly to Sir Wallis Budge, Litt.D., D.Lit., for his translation of the Book of the Dead and notes thereon.

We have aimed at co-ordinating within the pages of one volume as much evidence as we have been able to collect—from the traditions preserved by Herodotus and other writers of antiquity (mostly from Arab sources) down to the present—bearing upon the particular thesis herein set forth. We think the reader will admit that, when thus co-ordinated and presented as a consecutive narrative, the corroboration thereby revealed from such varied sources is remarkable and convincing.

B. STEWART. September, 1929.

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