Author: Charles Piazzi Smyth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pyramids
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
New Measures of the Great Pyramid
Author: Charles Piazzi Smyth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pyramids
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pyramids
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Author: Eckhart R. Schmitz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987957702
Category : Archaeoastronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987957702
Category : Archaeoastronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
The Great Pyramid
Author: Piazzi Smyth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368849174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368849174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Great Pyramid
Author: Elizabeth Mann
Publisher: Mikaya Press
ISBN: 0965049310
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A history of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the civilization that produced it.
Publisher: Mikaya Press
ISBN: 0965049310
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A history of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the civilization that produced it.
Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Author: Peter Tompkins
Publisher: Lane, Allen
ISBN: 9780713905953
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Lane, Allen
ISBN: 9780713905953
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid
Author: Charles Piazzi Smyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108044417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Smyth's 1864 work, based on his measurements, argues that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built under divine guidance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108044417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Smyth's 1864 work, based on his measurements, argues that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built under divine guidance.
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid
Author: Charles Piazzi Smyth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The great pyramid; why was it built? & who built it?.
Author: John Taylor (Publisher.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Great Pyramid Hoax
Author: Scott Creighton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591437903
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid--the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837--was forged • Includes evidence from the time of the discovery of the marks: Vyse’s private field notes, surveys, facsimile drawings, and eye-witness testimony • Explains why Vyse was driven to perpetrate a fraud inside the Great Pyramid • Examines recent chemical analysis of the marks and high-definition photos to reveal errors and other anomalies within the forged Khufu cartouche Despite millennia of fame, the origins of the Great Pyramid of Giza are shrouded in mystery. Believed to be the tomb of an Egyptian king, even though no remains have ever been found, its construction date of roughly 2550 BCE is tied to only one piece of evidence: the crudely painted marks within the pyramid’s hidden chambers that refer to the 4th Dynasty king Khufu, discovered in 1837 by Colonel Howard Vyse and his team. Using evidence from the time of the discovery of these “quarry marks”--including surveys, facsimile drawings and Vyse’s private field notes--along with high definition photos of the actual marks, Scott Creighton reveals how and why the marks were faked. He investigates the anomalous and contradictory orthography of the quarry marks through more than 75 photos and illustrations, showing how they radically depart from the established canon of quarry marks from this period. He explains how the orientation of the Khufu cartouche contradicts ancient Egyptian writing convention and how one of the signs is from a later period. Analyzing Vyse’s private diary, he reveals Vyse’s forgery instructions to his two assistants, Raven and Hill, and what the anachronistic sign should have been. He examines recent chemical analysis of the marks along with the eye-witness testimony of Humphries Brewer, who worked with Vyse at Giza in 1837 and saw forgery take place. Exploring Vyse’s background, including his electoral fraud to become a member of the British Parliament, he explains why he was driven to perpetrate a fraud inside the Great Pyramid. Proving Zecharia Sitchin’s claim that the quarry marks are forgeries and removing the only physical evidence that dates the Great Pyramid’s construction to the reign of Khufu, Creighton’s study strikes down one of the most fundamental assertions of orthodox Egyptologists and reopens long-standing questions about the Great Pyramid’s true age, who really built it, and why.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591437903
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid--the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837--was forged • Includes evidence from the time of the discovery of the marks: Vyse’s private field notes, surveys, facsimile drawings, and eye-witness testimony • Explains why Vyse was driven to perpetrate a fraud inside the Great Pyramid • Examines recent chemical analysis of the marks and high-definition photos to reveal errors and other anomalies within the forged Khufu cartouche Despite millennia of fame, the origins of the Great Pyramid of Giza are shrouded in mystery. Believed to be the tomb of an Egyptian king, even though no remains have ever been found, its construction date of roughly 2550 BCE is tied to only one piece of evidence: the crudely painted marks within the pyramid’s hidden chambers that refer to the 4th Dynasty king Khufu, discovered in 1837 by Colonel Howard Vyse and his team. Using evidence from the time of the discovery of these “quarry marks”--including surveys, facsimile drawings and Vyse’s private field notes--along with high definition photos of the actual marks, Scott Creighton reveals how and why the marks were faked. He investigates the anomalous and contradictory orthography of the quarry marks through more than 75 photos and illustrations, showing how they radically depart from the established canon of quarry marks from this period. He explains how the orientation of the Khufu cartouche contradicts ancient Egyptian writing convention and how one of the signs is from a later period. Analyzing Vyse’s private diary, he reveals Vyse’s forgery instructions to his two assistants, Raven and Hill, and what the anachronistic sign should have been. He examines recent chemical analysis of the marks along with the eye-witness testimony of Humphries Brewer, who worked with Vyse at Giza in 1837 and saw forgery take place. Exploring Vyse’s background, including his electoral fraud to become a member of the British Parliament, he explains why he was driven to perpetrate a fraud inside the Great Pyramid. Proving Zecharia Sitchin’s claim that the quarry marks are forgeries and removing the only physical evidence that dates the Great Pyramid’s construction to the reign of Khufu, Creighton’s study strikes down one of the most fundamental assertions of orthodox Egyptologists and reopens long-standing questions about the Great Pyramid’s true age, who really built it, and why.
The Shape of the Great Pyramid
Author: Roger Herz-Fischler
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554587034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Who has not seen a picture of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, massive in size but deceptively simple in shape, and not wondered how that shape was determined? Starting in the late eighteenth century, eleven main theories were proposed to explain the shape of the Great Pyramid. Even though some of these theories are well known, there has never been a detailed examination of their origins and dissemination. Twenty years of research using original and difficult-to-obtain source material has allowed Roger Herz-Fischler to piece together the intriguing story of these theories. Archaeological evidence and ancient Egyptian mathematical texts are discussed in order to place the theories in their proper historical context. The theories themselves are examined, not as abstract mathematical discourses, but as writings by individual authors, both well known and obscure, who were influenced by the intellectual and social climate of their time. Among results discussed are the close links of some of the pyramid theories with other theories, such as the theory of evolution, as well as the relationship between the pyramid theories and the struggle against the introduction of the metric system. Of special note is the chapter examining how some theories spread whereas others were rejected. This book has been written to be accessible to a wide audience, yet four appendixes, detailed endnotes and an exhaustive bibliography provide specialists with the references expected in a scholarly work.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554587034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Who has not seen a picture of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, massive in size but deceptively simple in shape, and not wondered how that shape was determined? Starting in the late eighteenth century, eleven main theories were proposed to explain the shape of the Great Pyramid. Even though some of these theories are well known, there has never been a detailed examination of their origins and dissemination. Twenty years of research using original and difficult-to-obtain source material has allowed Roger Herz-Fischler to piece together the intriguing story of these theories. Archaeological evidence and ancient Egyptian mathematical texts are discussed in order to place the theories in their proper historical context. The theories themselves are examined, not as abstract mathematical discourses, but as writings by individual authors, both well known and obscure, who were influenced by the intellectual and social climate of their time. Among results discussed are the close links of some of the pyramid theories with other theories, such as the theory of evolution, as well as the relationship between the pyramid theories and the struggle against the introduction of the metric system. Of special note is the chapter examining how some theories spread whereas others were rejected. This book has been written to be accessible to a wide audience, yet four appendixes, detailed endnotes and an exhaustive bibliography provide specialists with the references expected in a scholarly work.