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Summary: A fascinating contribution to Egyptology
Review: Pyramid Illusions: A Journey to the Truth challenges the common theories about the Egyptian stone pyramids. Pyramid Illusions is a culmination of original research, imaginative writing, and many useful illustrations to help the reader envision him/herself at the sites and interiors of the Egyptian masonry pyramids. By reviewing the facts on the sites, the reader is capable of separating the fact from the fiction and finding that the pyramids are not tombs, the stone blocks of the pyramids were man-made and not quarried, ramps were not used, and slaves did not build the pyramids. Readers will become informed about the ancient Egyptian tombs and how they differ from the stone pyramids. They will learn how and when ancient Egyptians manufacture hard stones for jewelry, jars, vessels, statues, as well as for the pyramid blocks, and much, much more. Controversial, articulate, challenging, Pyramid Illusions is a fascinating contribution to Egyptology.
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Summary: Book Description
Review: Shatter the "common theories," and expose the falsehoods of
the centuries-held views about the Egyptian pyramids.
Envision yourself at the sites and interiors of the pyramids.
Numerous illustrations and descriptive text enhance the experience.
Separate the facts from the fiction, and discover that the
stone pyramids were not tombs, the stone blocks of the pyramids
were man-made and could never have been quarried, and that
ramps were not used to build the pyramids. You will enjoy this
original format, which is comprehensive, scrupulously researched,
engaging, and lively. This is another historical correction
from the author of the internationally acclaimed book,
"Historical Deception - The Untold Story of Ancient Egypt."
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Summary: Excerpted from PYRAMID ILLUSIONS: A JOURNEY TO THE TRUTH
Review: Were the Pyramids tombs?
The answer is a resounding NO. There is, however, an unusual situation in the case of Zoser's Pyramid at Saqqara. As we will find later in Saqqara, Zoser built complete underground burial chambers, for himself and his family. Building a step pyramid was an afterthought, which came a few years later. The burial chambers are not an integral part of the pyramid structure. The nine remaining pyramids, which have been constructed from solid core masonry, are not tombs, as will the evidence indicate throughout the book.
Where did Egyptians bury their kings at that time? (The Pyramid Era 2630-2472 B.C.)
During the Early Dynastic Period, the tombs of the kings and nobles consisted of subterranean burial chambers with large, low, rectangular, mud-brick superstructures. These types of tombs were called mastabas, meaning benches.
- The subterranean parts contained the burial chambers, which were surrounded by many other chambers and store rooms, for the less important funerary goods. The burial chamber was a narrow chamber hewn out of the rock, to which a shaft leads down from the roof of the mastaba.
- The superstructures were rectangular, low in proportion to its length, and with a convex roof. They varied in size from 24 square yards (20 square meters) to an area of more than 1/4 acre.
How did they bury their kings at that time?
The kings were buried in simple rectangular wooden chests, covered with funerary texts and inscriptions. The wooden coffin was placed inside a stone sarcophagus, which was also covered with funerary texts and inscriptions. The viscera (stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver) of the deceased, were placed in four individual containers, called canopic jars, next to the sarcophagus.
How did the pyramids vary from the normal royal tombs of that time?
The nine solid masonry pyramids, after Zoser's, contain a total of fourteen uninscribed rooms and just three empty, uninscribed stone chests, incorrectly referred to as sarcophagi. The following are the major differences between the pyramids and Egyptian tombs:
- Firstly, these nine pyramids are totally void of ANY official inscriptions, offering rooms, and other funerary features, found in both earlier and later tombs.
- Secondly, there are too few empty "stone chests" and too many empty rooms in these nine pyramids, to theorize that they were tombs.
- Thirdly, if we accept, hypothetically, that robbers might have smashed the stone chests and their lids, one can hardly accept the logic that these robbers would have taken the trouble to steal the smashed stone chests. In spite of careful search, no chips of broken stone chests or their lids were found anywhere in the pyramids' passages and chambers.
- Fourthly, the passageways in the nine pyramids are too narrow to provide for the manipulation of the stone chests. These nine pyramids are distinctively lacking adequate space arrangements.
- Fifthly, one pharaoh, Snefru, might have built two and possibly three pyramids, and nobody expects him to be buried in all three of them.
- Lastly, no human remains were ever found inside the nine masonry pyramids. Thieves steal treasures, but they would naturally avoid dead bodies.
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