THE GREAT PYRAMID.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20308, 6 August 1931, Page 8

THE GREAT PYRAMID.

TO THE EDITOR OF THB PRESS. gj rj —in reply to Mr Pritchett's first point: everybody who has made a study of the subject ought to know that the interiors of the Pyramids were accessible to tho priests. The fact that many /of them had been forcibly entered otherwise does not show that no practicable entrance existed', but merely that it was unknown. Both the large pyramids at Giya were regularly entered in classical times, but were forced by ignorant Arabs, who, like tho gentleman he quotes in SCO A.D., found nothing, because they had been robbed thousands- of years earlier, after tho fall of Memphis. Obviously the same robbers carried off the lid of the sarcophagus when they carried out the coffin and treasures, and Mr Pritchett's second point falls to the ground, as the sarcophagi are not always inscribed either with pictures or writing; in fact, a large number are plain and undecoratcd. Of course, I am not referring to the sarcophagi of the later dynasties, which were of a more elaborate nature. I nm neither an architect nor an engineer, so can express no opinion on Mr Pritchett's third point, but against his fourth point one can quote a large number of learned people, such as Holscher, Meyer, Breastead, and Quibcll, who nro of opinion that the Great Pyramid was a tomb, and an empty tomb it still remains.—Yours, etc., E. E. MALDEN. Tho Vicarage, Amber ley, August oth, 1931.