Origin and Significance of The Great Pyramid by C. Staniland Wake
Author:C. Staniland Wake [Wake, C. Staniland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Egypt, Social Science, Anthropology, Physical, Archaeology
ISBN: 9781585090860
Google: TGxjPsErXXsC
Publisher: Book Tree
Published: 2002-08-15T16:05:44+00:00
Footnotes:
- 1 In connection with this statement it may be remarked, that from ancient inscriptions it appears that during the reign of Amenemha III. of the Twelfth Dynasty, the average height of the inundations from the Nile was 24 feet greater than at present. (See Dunckersâs âHistory of Antiquity,â Vol. i. p. 105.)
- 2 Vyse, Vol. ii., 324-8
- 3 Mr. Petrieâs letter in The Academy. M. de Sacy refers with approval to the statements of Abd Allatif and other Arab writers, that the surfaces of the two great pyramids were covered. with inscriptions. (See Vyse, Vol. ii. p. 342)
- 4 II. (Num Shufu), while Cephren (Shafra of the Fifth Dynasty), was the founder of the Second Pyramid. Rawlinsonâs âHerodotus,â Vol. ii. p. 346
- 5 Vyse, Vol. ii. p. 95. Dr. Birch says that the coffin of this monarch marks a new religious development in the annals of Egypt. âEgypt,â p. 41
- 6 âEgypt,â Vol. ii., p. 132
- 7 A religious work, called âThe Sacred Book,â was ascribed to him by the Greek writers
- 8 Tom. i. p. 244. Abd Allatif mentions that there were formerly at Ghizeh a considerable number of small pyramids, [p. 48] which were destroyed by Karakousch, an Emir in the army of Salaheddin Youssef, to supply materials for the building of the walls and citadel of Cairo. (See Vyse, âOperationsâ etc., Vol. ii. p. 336.)
- 9 Tom. i., Vol. ii. p. 94
- 10 Ditto, p. 104
- 11 Ditto, p. 298
- 12 Wilkinsonâs âHand-Book (Egypt),â p. 168
- 13 Vyse, Vol. ii. p. 333
- 14 âEgyptâ (Eng. Ed.), Vol. i. p. 125
- 15 Vyse, Vol. ii. p. 345
- 16 Hand-Book (Egypt),â p. 168
- 17 Miss Amelia B. Edwards, The Academy for Jan. 7th, 1882
- 18 May there not have been a religious cause, connected with a difference of race, such as the opposition, hereafter referred to, between Seth and Osiris?
- 19 Tom ii. p. 73
- 20 Vyse, âOperations,â etc., Vol. ii. p. 226
- 21 Vyse, Vol. ii. p. 334. May not the Eighth Pyramid, which tradition assigns as the tomb of the daughter of Cheops, have been that of his wife? The masonry has much resemblance to that of the Great Pyramid. Vol. ii. p. 70
- 22 Duncker, âHistory of Antiquity,â Vol. i. p. 99
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