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

“THE BOOK OF THE DEAD”

Memphis in those remote days was revived. The archaic titles . . . of the Pyramid builders were again brought into requisition, and in the externals of government everything possible was done to clothe it with the appearance of remote antiquity.’ It is not surprising, therefore, that under these circumstances attempts were made to attribute Egypt’s most sacred writings to the same era.