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Thanks Palter. Egypt's Brotherhood Declares War on the Bikini (and the Pyramids too) Egyptian Islamists Target Bikinis, Pyramids wildbill: Strange that there are few hieroglphs inside. Most burial sites are covered in them. The Great Pyramid was formerly somewhat covered with writing on the outside -- this info is from surviving sources from classical antiquity -- but those facing stones were stripped off to build Cairo. Inside the Great Pyramid, one of the great Egyptologists (may have been Flinders Petrie, but I don't know now) found a small section of the originally plastered wall surface, and on it was an inscription which referred to "year of the cattle drive" from the reign of Khufu. And of course, the best-known is the construction crew graffito in one of the relieving chambers over the King's chamber, "how mighty is the Great White Crown of Khufu (work gang)". I wouldn't have hopped right on, but these threads often get filled up with kooky talk and pyramidiocy. There's also a four-character inscription above the entrance to Khufu's pyramid, carved during the Hellenistic times or later, in an obscure script. There's a topic about it in the FRchives, of course. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[Fred Nerks]

No one seems to know what the inscription means and it has never been deciphered

The few solitary casing stones at the bottom of the Great Pyramid. These too would have been removed were it not for the good fortune that they were covered in tons of sand and inaccessible to those who plundered the Pyramid's stone to build the city of Cairo. These beautiful white limestone casing stones once sheathed the entirety of the Great Pyramid on every face, all the way up to its 44' X 44' flat floor altar on the top of the pyramid.

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