THE GREAT PYRAMID

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 15

THE GREAT PYRAMID

WHY WAS IT BUILT?

(Contributed.)

l'he results of many years of investigation on the part o£ some of the world's greatest scientists are now available for any wljo are interested 'to study. In 1637 John Greaves, of the Oxford University, explored the Pyramid, aiid published valuable results of his labours. Nathaniel Davison, a British Consul at Algiers' in 1753, and French scientists in connection with Napoleon's expedition in Egypt in 1799, followed, but Howard Vyse, with numerous assistants, and at great expense, laid the foundation for probably the, most important ' developments found in the world of all in tha last century. He discovered above the ceiling of the King's Chamber quarry. markß in red paint, proving that writing was known over 4000 years ago, and among these, marks wera armaments like small pieces of paper of the brothers who reisned when the Pyramid was being built. Even at that late date He discovered some of the original casing stones still in their place, and portions of the pavement which had 'been round the edifice. It must be remembered that the Pyramid of Gizeh is not now as it was originally. Instead of polished dazzling white faces it now forms a series of steep steps owing to in recent years over twenty acres of the polished casing stones being removed to embellish the City of Cairo. Then there was John Taylor, of London, who wrestled with the oruestions: ''Why was the Pyramid built?" and "Who built it?" There is. every reason to believe that.he was the first writer in recent years' to state that the real architects of the Pyramid of Gizeh were not Egyptians, tut those of an entirely different religion and nationality. It is said he claimed to find, in the shape, measures, and arrangements of the pyramid an intellectuality and numerical knowledge of the cosmical phenomena of earth and heavens, which neither Egypt nor any other nation possessed or understood , 4000 years ago. This original view interested scientists, among whom was Professor Piazzi Smith, Astronomer of Scotland, - who ex- I plored every part of the building, and ' published the result in several volumes, j Other publications appeared, and concurred in the belief that this venerable ■ "Pillar" was never built or used for a.tomb for the dead. In a country the hotbed of idolatry, with the land full of heathen temples, which were filled ■with images and walls covered with j hieroglyphics, as Lepsins rtates, "NothiHT down to the palette of a scribe,- the etyle with which a lady painted' her j eyelashes, or a walking stick, waß deemed too small to be inscribed with tha I name of the owner, and a dedication of the object to some patron deity." "And vet," as writes Dr. Seiss, "here is the \ flreat Pyramid, ths largest, finest,. and most wonderful edifice in all Egypt, gitnated in the midst of an endless round of tombs, temples, and monuments, uniformly loaded down with these idolatrous emblems and inscriptions, and yet in all its thirteen acres of masonry, in all its long avenues, Grand Gallery, arid exquisite chambers, in any department or place whatever, there has never been found one ancient inscription, votive record, or the slightest sign of Egypt's idolatry. In the centre of the intensest Jnpurity, the Great Pyramid stands without spotor blemish or remotest taint of the surronnding flood of abominations like the incarnato Son of God, sinless .in a world of sinners."