The Secret Chamber of Osiris: Lost Knowledge of the Sixteen Pyramids by Scott Creighton

Author:Scott Creighton [Creighton, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Ancient Mysteries
ISBN: 9781591431879
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2014-12-25T08:00:00+00:00

VYSE'S JOURNAL SPEAKS

In the absence of official scientific tests being done on these painted markings it seemed that the only avenue left to explore to try to determine their authenticity would be Vyse’s handwritten journal from his time at Giza in 1837. I realized that if this document could be located then it might be possible to determine the accuracy of Walter Allen’s account regarding his great-grandfather, Humphries Brewer. If Brewer had been in Egypt with Vyse in 1837, as Allen’s account states, then it was perhaps possible that Vyse made mention of him in his handwritten journal (when they were on good terms) and simply redacted his presence from his published work after their dispute. That was my thinking, and if it turned out to be correct then it would at least offer some corroboration to Walter Allen’s account.

And so, in March 2014, I set about looking for Vyse’s handwritten journal. Thanks to the internet, it didn’t take very long. I had searched for this document on the internet over the years and had always come up empty-handed, but this time the location of this nearly 180-yearold document came up: the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, in Aylesbury, England, about 400 miles from home. So my wife, Louise, and I would have to drive a round trip of 800 miles (1,288 km) to have a look at Vyse’s journal. We didn’t know what to expect or, indeed, if we would find anything at all of any great relevance to our quest. However, when we finally arrived at the center in early April 2014, we were not to be disappointed, though not in the way we had first imagined.

Vyse’s handwritten journal consists of around 600 pages of yellowing, folded foolscap pages tied together in a bundle with a thin white ribbon and all contained within a rather unremarkable card folder. Although some of the pages are perfectly clear, the ink on many of the pages is exceedingly faint, browning with age. But this was the least of our problems with the document, as a quick glance of some of the pages would prove. Vyse’s handwriting is almost impossible to read; a scrawling style where many letters are contracted or expanded and where a particular letter can take a different form depending on where it appears in a word. I had experienced doctors’ prescriptions that were easier to read. In consideration of this difficulty, I sought permission to take digital photographs of the journal pages so that we could take them home to analyze at our leisure. Fortunately this wasn’t a problem (as long as we didn’t use flash photography). And so, for the next two days, Louise and I set about the not insignificant task of photographing each and every page of Vyse’s handwritten journal plus some other material in his archive. It wasn’t lost on us that the task to find anything significant from these pages could take months, if not years, to research thoroughly. (Indeed, a clear reference to

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