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...Giza, Egypt, Dr. George A. Reisner's Harvard-Boston expedition (TIME, March 23, 1925) effected entrance to a burial chamber near the Pyramid of Cheops; deduced from the disposition of furniture and the human remains that it was the reburial place of Cheops' father or mother. Out of a pious desire to have his parent near him in death, the son had moved them...
...more fascinating hobby for the layman of a romantic and imaginative turn than to find a satisfactory answer to this conundrum. And if be has been lucky he has once seen a white temple rising through the green of tropical foliage, or has stood on an old pyramid awed by the silence of a whole city silver in the moonlight! What puzzle can compete for fascination with inscrutable hieroglyphs which contain now only secrets, although carved to proclaim facts...
...Pyramid Hold King's Body...
...Reisner was loathe to believe that the scarred remnant of a sarcophagus which was found and left in the main mortuary chamber of the Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...difficulty the first block was removed and it was found that many more lay underneath. The blocks below the surface were all of pure limestone brought from the royal quarry on the other side of the Nile. Some bore the catouche of Cheops himself, the builder of the Great Pyramid. This may mean that Cheops filled the entrance of the tomb of a prdecessor or it might conceivably mean that Cheops himself was buried in the tomb...