Word: gizeh
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Last week Elbridge Rand Herron reached Alexandria on his way home. Egypt has no mountain peaks, but there remain the pyramids. Herron motored out to Gizeh and scrambled up the huge blocks of the Great Pyramid with no trouble at all. Then he tried the smaller (477½ ft.) Second Pyramid whose apex still retains much of its original smooth alabaster sheathing. Hoisting himself confidently from one 4-ft. block to the next Alpinist Herron reached the top, stood up and waved to his friends. Then, somehow, he slipped. A sprawling black spider to the horrified eyes below, his body...
...tales regarding kings buried deep in the rock under the pyramids have been relegated with the tales of black magic and priestcraft to the confines of fiction. All have been considered too far fetched to be true. The truth of the statements with regard to Gizeh seems now in a fair way to become proven conclusively...
...just such an entrance but it was filled only with debris. At Thebes, however, there was not so great a necessity of making the surface absolutely smooth because the wide area of the Valley made a clearing of the entire rock foundation impossible. On the other hand, at Gizeh, there was every necessity for making the plaster absolutely smooth with the rock and completely camouflaged. The failure on the part of the architects to do this seemed sufficient proof to Rowe and Greenees that the stairs were false and led nowhere...
...found in the same condition in which it was put in the tomb. If it bad been left undiscovered until some discoverer 2000 years hence chanced upon it, decay would probably have destroyed much of it. Six-milenniums have passed since the funerary equipment was sealed up at Gizeh and even the ideal conditions of a uniform temperature and dry air were insufficient to preserve the furniture...
Sanborn reports that work has been done at Gizeh, Memphis and Dendereh. At Gizeh a portion of the extensive necropolis belonging to the period of the Old Empire was cleared. Besides a number of stelae, the most interesting discovery was a vauit built of interlocking bricks; this is a unique example of such construction at so early a date. At Memphis the expedition is still engaged in uncovering a great complex of buildings dating from the reign of Merenptah (ca. 1225-1215 B. C.), the son of Rameses the Great. Thus far nearly the whole of a large festival temple...