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granaries OF Joseph, Of his tomb; and
again he tomb Of Pharaoh who WAS
drowned in the Red Sea This a'' idea
was refured al once By lhe fact hat the
erection oI the lbisry nine pyramids IN
Egypt sntedsre 10 Abraham by many
generations, and that neither Joseph nor
Pharaoh could DO buried in lhIrly-nlne
p aces at once Some writer's Gs'ert
that they we're erected by captive FRO
JAMS thousand years before Troy was
built More recent writers have iried
to demonstrate that the pyramids we're
built solely "to square the circle or
for vast reservoirs N which the wa'ers
Of the Nile were purified, They have |
been though 10 be sancluares Of oracles
astronomical observalorles; and oldest
idea Of all, raised as the burial place OF
the bull Apis, and possibly to receive
the remains Of a COW. The day is pas
sed, he said, when we are forced to ac-
cspt as The emanatons Of Greek or Rn-
man original wisdom, truths, the prmi-
tive source Of which, in Egypt. ls attest.
ed by existing monuments as belonging
to ages long before Moses.
"But to The facts about the pvTnmids.
\ Mr. Gliddon said thai, as TO The Epoch
Of their construction. they were built
= between Noah and Abraham, in the par
alleI Of Bible chronology, and between
Moses, the first Pharaoh Of Egypt, and
ihe accession OF The sixteenth Thchan
b dynasty in the scale Of hioroglyphCS
|, chronology. They all existed and many
! cC them wera anrient 10 B. {. 2272 -
They are all 1000 years old, and some
n Of them nearer 5000. They were built
"a bv the Egyptian children Of Ham the
; Caucasian and Asiaic descendants Of
50 Noah, who coIoOized Egypt aIer the
- food, and became Egyptians. As to the
i objects of the pyramids, they are exceed
,n ,ngly sepulchral, being the royal lomb'
A of those Egvp,inn Kings who diod be-
=; rween tho first and twelIih dynasty o
Manrtho.
oc "Ths lecturer next proceeded to re.
"a mark upon the periods and progress o
i the modern explorations Al the pyramid
=. Of Memphis, cutting up in the onset h
~ s2pcula,ous Of unulormed travel ers
ii from Bruce, in l76S, to anv igoorau
:. any body else in 1894, including Shaw
Demon, DR.. Clarke, poor Mr.. Silk BocI
rngham, and the still poorer Mr.. s
ohm 10 the present year, Mr.. Gid
", " don triumphanry declared that tn
" ;rutha Of positive research and discoVe
' ~" had enabled tbs modern schonI Of n,er
"'I ologv to 'pass the sponge Of oblivion oV'
NV ~, all his thoughts OF such ina gjnal'
"'' travellers.
to, "Mr GiGdon pays litt'e attention
,od any opinion previous to tho era OF tt
oon French. and English expeditions to +
81 gyp, 10 1898 add 1902, the result
=, in which was Two great works, the ID
'bo, " scriprion de 'Egype," al Paris, a
" Hamilton's Egypriaca" a, London, t
,r,s tween 1916 and 1899. CovgIia, Sa
= Be zoni, Jumel, Baron Won MinuroI
.,o and Dr.. Maruccni, had made explOr
\ % tlons in the pyramids, discovering sor
o,v new passages, clearing away sand, "
,ai, out found nothing satllaclOry 10 rewa
hoII them; and it was not until 1925 III
I'm ChampoIlion's Interpretation was br
TO bear upon these massy structure
Messrs. Wilkinson, Burton. and olhe
'a'' explored them topogr phically, and p
Wv" we'd their sepuIrhral utilities, and
'"- 1923, '20, the French and Tuscan II
g. 81 SONS under ChampoIIlon md Rossell
'''eo added new facts to the Investigations
'oo' their Englsh colleagues
m,o "In 1887 Colonel Howard Vy'e,
English cavalry officer, visited Egy
-. spent thousands of pounds in pyramI
R'u excavations, and rendered the world
""y dsbled for what is now known ab
'eu'' these monuments. st Colonel Vys
'ea expense Mr. Perring, a scientific er
OF neer, devoted his time to the same wo
n' VI the result Of which has been the pn
sup cation Of Colonel Vvse's magnificent
'oHa' llo and Quar,O volumes, to which
Gliddon acknowledges his indebledo
for knowledge that exists in no OF
work IN the world. The Egyptian
Cfd ce,v aod. a few private individuals h
.,,can verified Neurological knowledge to
,no, close OF 1871. A new era dates 4
..s r, 1912: and as clear knowledge OF E
lrvn, tian history Is possessed from 2OOO
rooad B C. it is on the pyramid built long
,o,o.o fore then that the attention Of the
m tho vans of Europe is now concentrated
osoIy "On this hoped for Information
pyr- pends all knowledge Of the human
der Of between Mizrain and Abrahsm-no
the void of time. The Prussian Scien
week. Mission, under Professor Lepsius,
scrip, directing their efforts to this great {
" which whilst the sclenlhc and curious are
Bali. OuSIy expecting the great FruS
work, in which many astounding ij