Monthly Archives: May 2010

The Four Sons of Horus are most well known for their association with the mummification of the internal organs but there is more to these gods than containers of the dead king’s body parts. By focusing on the earliest records of the ancient Egyptian use of these four gods we’ll be letting the pyramids speak … Continue reading »

Many of the secret societies, such as the Rosticrucians, Masons, Jewish mystics, and others, have assigned importance to the Great Pyramid through mysticism. On the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States is the symbol of a Pyramid with a cap stone bearing the All-Seeing-Eye. The Great Seal’s design was largely due … Continue reading »

New tombs have been discovered at Giza further supporting the view that the pyramids were not built by slaves but by free skilled workers. “These tombs were built beside the king’s pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves…If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their … Continue reading »

One of the great treasures in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum is the funerary furniture and jewelry of Queen Hetepheres. Elegant furniture with beautiful gold bands of hieroglyphs are the main attraction, but there are also spectacular silver bracelets inlaid with turquoise butterf lies, whose discovery came about under unique circumstances. Found in 1925, when Tutankhamen’s tomb … Continue reading »

The last major engineering task was the positioning of the capstone, basically a small pyramid, on the very top of the Pyramid. The pyramidion, as it is called, was made of fine limestone and probably covered with electrum, an alloy of gold and silver, and might have weighed as much as fifteen tons.48 We don’t … Continue reading »

It was a momentous day when Sneferu, king of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Great God, died sometime around 2590 b.c., but the date of his death and the details of the funeral of one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs went unrecorded. This seems incredible to us, living in a society that wants every possible detail … Continue reading »

Before a single block was put in place, the angle of the pyramid had to be determined. The Egyptians did not think in terms of degrees; they never divided the circle into 360 degrees as we do. Rather, their unit for angles was called the seked. Their unit of length was the cubit, roughly the … Continue reading »

Imhotep’s great creation, the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, sparked a frenzy of construction in Egypt, and a nation of farmers became a nation of builders. It is even possible that Imhotep went on to design a second step pyramid for Zoser’s successor, King Sekhem- Khet, whose pyramid was discovered in the 1950s (see Appendix II). … Continue reading »

The Bible does not mention the Great Pyramid of Egypt although it did exist long before Israel came into Egypt and was there when Joseph and Mary brought the Messiah into Egypt at His birth (Matt. 2:13). In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the Great Pyramid was a hot topic. Many theologians began to … Continue reading »

There are also many theories about the purpose of the Great Pyramid. Along with not being able to conclude absolutely who built the Great Pyramid, mankind also does not understand why it was built. Many believe that Pharaoh Cheops (or Khufu) built the Great Pyramid for his tomb around 3350 BC, because many of the … Continue reading »