And on that humorous note I revert to my original idea expressed in the words of classical scholar Daniel Dombrowski:
"Atlantis was only a powerful literary device invented by Plato, which was to act as a means of highlighting the fate of the ideal state created in Plato's mind's eye. The only place in which Atlantis can be found, in addition to the writings of Plato, is in the minds of those with an imagination as vivid as that of Plato."
The Great Pyramid was open to tourists during later Hellenistic and throughout Roman times, then blocked back up during the 5th or 6th century, a job done so neatly that the later break-in during Muzzie times couldn’t find it. Anyway, there’s an oddball inscription carved on the lintel over the original entrance, it consists of four characters, hmm, there’s a topic about this somewhere...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1331709/posts?page=83#83
Also, parts of the original limestone facing on the Great Pyramid were carved with hieroglyphs, presumably dating back to the time of construction. That stone was pretty nice, and was carted off to build mosques and such in Cairo. The unfinished pyramid of Djedjefre — Khufu’s son and successor — at Abu Roash a few miles north of Giza was still being used as a quarry during the late 19th century.
The inside walls of the Great Pyramid were originally covered with plaster, a practice that was ubiquitous in ancient Egypt. Despite those centuries of Greek and Roman tourists, and the Muzzies, and moderns, some of that original plaster remained. A fragment of text on the plaster made reference to one year of Khufu’s reign, the Year of the Cattle Drive. It has since crumbled away.
Whoops, but yeah, there’s Greek and Roman graffiti on the Pyramids, on the so-called Memnon Colossi, on monumental art all over the place in ancient Egypt.