I did some research a long time ago about the Great Pyramid. An interesting work I read was by Peter Thompkins called Secrets Of The Great Pyramid. Thompkins covered the history of its exploration, from the time when explorers first cut an entrance into the Great Pyramid up to discoveries in the 1970's. (I read somewhere he released an updated edition since that one.)
Per that witness, the Great Pyramid originally had a smooth limestone covering, which was removed in the building of Cairo. It also had an apex capstone made of solid gold, which also was removed for the building of Cairo. If might have looked close to its original condition today if man had left it alone.
What really interested me though, was how no Egyptian burial artifacts were ever discovered inside the Great Pyramid. There's only one Egyptian hieroglyph in it over the threshold of the Queen's Chamber, a cartouche, and it was documented to be an addition at a later date from one of the Egyptian dynasties. Only a coffer was found inside the Great Pyramid.
But the rest of the pyramids contained burial artifacts of the pharaohs. Also, the later pyramids built by the Egyptians show less perfect architecture, like they were trying to copy the Great Pyramid, i.e., reverse engineer it.
The fact that later Egyptians added the cartouche above the threshold of the Queen's Chamber shows they knew its original entrance that became lost. The first explorers had to cut into to create an entrance. Some have speculated that the original entrance into the Great Pyramid is in between the feet of the Sphinx, leading to a subterranean entrance into the bottom of the Great Pyramid. I've never heard if such an entrance was ever found.
The building of the Great Pyramid is still a technical marvel today, mainly because modern engineers still have not figured out how some of its construction was managed based on the technology the ancient Egyptians had. If the ancient Egyptians actually built it, then why were their later pyramid structures less perfect? If your technology has advanced from the horse buggy to the car, you don't go back to just building horse carriages. But that's what it was like with the later pyramid structures. They don't measure up to the technology of the Great Pyramid.
That's one major reason why I don't believe the ancient Egyptians really built the Great Pyramid. The later ones yes, but not the Great Pyramid.
The building of the Great Pyramid is only one marvel about it. There are many others, like the mathematical and astronomical information its original builders put into it. It's been discovered that the north face of the Great Pyramid is aligned to earth's geographical true north. Sir Isaac Newton researched the Great Pyramid when looking for some way to determine the earth's circumference for his inch measurement system. His students solved his equation using the Great Pyramid, and the result became the English inch measurement based on the Pyramid inch. The Great Pyramid is in the exact center of the land mass of the earth.
The Great Pyramid reveals mathematical formulas like a quarter of the circumference of a circle which supposedly wasn't known until ancient Greeks later discovered it (i.e., PSI). The Great Pyramid also aligns with star constellations. Some Bible scholars researched the Great Pyramid and found a relation with its layout to Bible prophecy (maybe not as important to consider for some, but interesting none the less).
In the works of Josephus, the Jewish historian who lived in 100 A.D., he said the sons of Seth build two pillars, one of brick that was no more in his days, and another pillar of stone in the land of those who worship the dog star Sirius (i.e., Egypt). He said the sons of Seth built those pillars so that knowledge of what's in it would survive. Survive what? The flood of Noah's days evidently.
The Christian Hebrew scholar E.W. Bullinger researched the lost meanings of the Zodiac star constellations, traveling to Egypt for some of that info, and put it in a work called The Witness To The Stars. In the Egyptian temple of Dendara, he discovered a hieroglyph of the Sphinx, revealing the head and lion of the Sphinx represent two of the star constellations, Virgo and Leo. He discovered how the original meanings and names of the Zodiac constellations align within God's Word, and how paganism had corrupted those original names and meanings by changing them over history. In other words, his research proved that God's Word is written in the stars, and are represented by the original names and symbolic meanings of the 12 Zodiac constellations. That makes sense, seeing how the devil's servants have corrupted many things pointing to God's Truth in His Word through history.
This might point to those of Adam having known about this, in possession of God's Word in the stars. It might very well point to the sons of Seth having built the Great Pyramid, and preserving that understanding within it.
Then later, after the flood of Noah, the Egyptians seized it, and tried to grasp that knowledge and how the Great Pyramid was built. And they profaned the original Zodiac meanings with false worship, the Egyptian priest class seeking to hide the real info in order to control the people. A similar thing happened in ancient Sumer-Babylon, with Sargon, a Semite, appearing to the Sumerians, and setting up a pagan priest system of false worship, and their having recorded a highly veiled version of the creation account (I believe Sargon may have been Cain, and ancient Sumer the "land of Nod").
In that working, I believe the ancient pagans veiled the knowledge of God's Word in the stars, for their own purposes. It could be that veiled symbolism in pagan temples has been formed from corruptions of the witness of the stars over time. That's what the hieroglyph at the Egyptian temple of Dendara seems to point to. The ancient pagans profaned the Truth, so it became masked in their superstition and false worship of many gods. This what the Isaiah 19 Scripture appears to point to also...
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Per that witness, the Great Pyramid originally had a smooth limestone covering, which was removed in the building of Cairo. It also had an apex capstone made of solid gold, which also was removed for the building of Cairo. If might have looked close to its original condition today if man had left it alone.
What really interested me though, was how no Egyptian burial artifacts were ever discovered inside the Great Pyramid. There's only one Egyptian hieroglyph in it over the threshold of the Queen's Chamber, a cartouche, and it was documented to be an addition at a later date from one of the Egyptian dynasties. Only a coffer was found inside the Great Pyramid.
But the rest of the pyramids contained burial artifacts of the pharaohs. Also, the later pyramids built by the Egyptians show less perfect architecture, like they were trying to copy the Great Pyramid, i.e., reverse engineer it.
The fact that later Egyptians added the cartouche above the threshold of the Queen's Chamber shows they knew its original entrance that became lost. The first explorers had to cut into to create an entrance. Some have speculated that the original entrance into the Great Pyramid is in between the feet of the Sphinx, leading to a subterranean entrance into the bottom of the Great Pyramid. I've never heard if such an entrance was ever found.
The building of the Great Pyramid is still a technical marvel today, mainly because modern engineers still have not figured out how some of its construction was managed based on the technology the ancient Egyptians had. If the ancient Egyptians actually built it, then why were their later pyramid structures less perfect? If your technology has advanced from the horse buggy to the car, you don't go back to just building horse carriages. But that's what it was like with the later pyramid structures. They don't measure up to the technology of the Great Pyramid.
That's one major reason why I don't believe the ancient Egyptians really built the Great Pyramid. The later ones yes, but not the Great Pyramid.
The building of the Great Pyramid is only one marvel about it. There are many others, like the mathematical and astronomical information its original builders put into it. It's been discovered that the north face of the Great Pyramid is aligned to earth's geographical true north. Sir Isaac Newton researched the Great Pyramid when looking for some way to determine the earth's circumference for his inch measurement system. His students solved his equation using the Great Pyramid, and the result became the English inch measurement based on the Pyramid inch. The Great Pyramid is in the exact center of the land mass of the earth.
The Great Pyramid reveals mathematical formulas like a quarter of the circumference of a circle which supposedly wasn't known until ancient Greeks later discovered it (i.e., PSI). The Great Pyramid also aligns with star constellations. Some Bible scholars researched the Great Pyramid and found a relation with its layout to Bible prophecy (maybe not as important to consider for some, but interesting none the less).
In the works of Josephus, the Jewish historian who lived in 100 A.D., he said the sons of Seth build two pillars, one of brick that was no more in his days, and another pillar of stone in the land of those who worship the dog star Sirius (i.e., Egypt). He said the sons of Seth built those pillars so that knowledge of what's in it would survive. Survive what? The flood of Noah's days evidently.
The Christian Hebrew scholar E.W. Bullinger researched the lost meanings of the Zodiac star constellations, traveling to Egypt for some of that info, and put it in a work called The Witness To The Stars. In the Egyptian temple of Dendara, he discovered a hieroglyph of the Sphinx, revealing the head and lion of the Sphinx represent two of the star constellations, Virgo and Leo. He discovered how the original meanings and names of the Zodiac constellations align within God's Word, and how paganism had corrupted those original names and meanings by changing them over history. In other words, his research proved that God's Word is written in the stars, and are represented by the original names and symbolic meanings of the 12 Zodiac constellations. That makes sense, seeing how the devil's servants have corrupted many things pointing to God's Truth in His Word through history.
This might point to those of Adam having known about this, in possession of God's Word in the stars. It might very well point to the sons of Seth having built the Great Pyramid, and preserving that understanding within it.
Then later, after the flood of Noah, the Egyptians seized it, and tried to grasp that knowledge and how the Great Pyramid was built. And they profaned the original Zodiac meanings with false worship, the Egyptian priest class seeking to hide the real info in order to control the people. A similar thing happened in ancient Sumer-Babylon, with Sargon, a Semite, appearing to the Sumerians, and setting up a pagan priest system of false worship, and their having recorded a highly veiled version of the creation account (I believe Sargon may have been Cain, and ancient Sumer the "land of Nod").
In that working, I believe the ancient pagans veiled the knowledge of God's Word in the stars, for their own purposes. It could be that veiled symbolism in pagan temples has been formed from corruptions of the witness of the stars over time. That's what the hieroglyph at the Egyptian temple of Dendara seems to point to. The ancient pagans profaned the Truth, so it became masked in their superstition and false worship of many gods. This what the Isaiah 19 Scripture appears to point to also...
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