The Solution of the Pyramid Problem Or Pyramid Discoveries With a New Theory
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The tremendous strength and regularity of the cavi- ties called the King's and Queen's chambers, the regu- larity and the smallness of most of the passages or mas- sive stone connecting pipes, favor the idea that the cham- bers might have been reservoirs, their curious roofs, air chambers, and the galleries or passages, connecting pipes for working water under pressure. Water raised through the passages of this one pyramid nearest to the canal, might have, been carried by troughs to the other p...yramids, which were in all probability in course of con- SOLUTION OF THE PYRAMID PROBLEM. 63 struction at the same period of time. A profane friend of mine thinks that the sarcophagus or " sacred coffer" in the King's chamber may have been used by the chief architect and leading men of the works as a bath, and that the King's chamber was than a delightful bath room. V p THR. UNIVERSITY The following quotation from the^vutlllgof an Arabian author (Ibn Abd Alkokm), is extracted from Bonwick's " Pyramid Facts and Fancies, " page 72 : " The Coptites mention in their books that upon them (the Pyramids) is an inscription engraven ; the expo- sition of it in Arabicke is this : ' I, Saurid the King built the Pyramids (in such and such a time), and finished them in six years ; he that comes after me, and says he is equal to me, let him destroy them in six hundred years ; and yet it is known that it is easier to pluck down than to build ; and when I had finished them, I covered them with sattin, and let him cover them with slats' ' The italics are my own.
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