Thanks, Cintia.

Cintia Panizza Wrote:
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> You are right, Hermione, I didn’t based my
> assertion.
> I know that the orthodox main principle it is that
> the Egyptians built the pyramids and the Sphinx.
> But that is not what I think and I would like to
> make clear that I am thinking by myself and not
> influenced by Graham Hancock blindly. I think the
> pyramids were not built by the Egyptians since I
> was 9 years old (yes, I was a precocious kid) and
> even debate with my teachers about that and the
> only thing the teachers wanted was to teach the
> class that the Egyptians built the pyramids.
> I will have to quote Graham Hancock and Robert
> Bauval:
>
>

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[The three great Pyramids, for example, are
> conventionally assigned as the tombs of Khufu,
> Khafre and Menkaure - three Pharaohs of the Fourth
> Dynasty. Terno Pharaoh’s body has never Brendon’s [been found? H.]
> in any of this monuments and while there are
> so-called ‘quarry marks’ - crudely daubed
> graffiti- the cavities above the roof of the
> ‘King’s Chamber’ in the Great Pyramid(…)There are
> no no other texts of any kind in the Great Pyramid
> , or in the Pyramids attributed to Khafre and
> Menkaure. (Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock,
> Keeper of Genesis,1997, p. 24,25,26]

" ... no other texts of any kind in the Great Pyramid ... "

This statement is not accurate.

What Bauval and Hancock are referring to are in fact the names of teams of workers who were employed in the Great Pyramid; these team names incorporated the name of the reigning king (as explained by Ann Macy Roth, "Phyles of the Old Kingdom," previously cited in another post).

Examples of these team names, aper names, have been found in other locations in the Great Pyramid, for example, just after WWII, on the backing stones of the Great Pyramid, archaeologist Leslie Grinsell saw markings with the name Khnum-Khufu and the name Medjedu (Egyptian Pyramids, 1947: 103). A French contemporary, Georges Goyon, also found and published a crew mark seen on the backing stones of the Great Pyramid (Les Inscriptions et Graffiti des Voyageurs sur la Grande Pyramide, 1944: 27). Other examples of the cartouche name “Khufu” have been discovered on the covering blocks of a pit in which lay a wooden ship buried near the foot of the Great Pyramid.

" ... or in the Pyramids attributed to Khafre and Menkaure. ... "

There are several smaller pyramids next to the main pyramid of Menkaure. In one of them (III-b), Col. Howard Vyse found various hieroglyphic sign, one of which included the name of Mycerinus in a cartouche (Operations, 2: 48). (Reisner, the excavator of Menkaure, thought this was another crew-name.)

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