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adorned with inscriptions that, according to renowned first-century historian Josephus (b. 37 CE), revealed "a peculiar sort of wisdom" (Antiquities of the Jews). A scroll written by Abou Balkhi, an Arab astronomer- astrologer of the eighth century, and preserved in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford provides additional information: "Two of those [pyramids] exceeded all the rest in height, being 400 cubits high, and as many broad, and as many long. They were built of large blocks of stone, and so well joined together that the joins were scarcely perceptible. Upon the exterior of the best structure [the Great Pyramid] was inscribed every charm and wonder of physics." papyrus, found in the Egyptian monastery of Abou Hormeis in 1927, saw no problem in reading the casing stone inscriptions: "In this manner was the Great Pyramid built. Upon the slopes were written the mysteries of science, astronomy, geometry, physics and much useful knowledge, which any person who understands our writing [Coptic?] can read." (Unknown author, MS held in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt) structure [the Great Pyramid] was inscribed every comment: charm and wonder of physics." "The first pyramid was designed and constructed by Thoth to preserve the arts and sciences and other scientific The records of Masoudi, a 10th-century Arab historian acquirements during a deluge." and author, relate similar information about pyramid (from M. Jomard, Quotations from Ancient Authors, inscriptions, even more 1801, Prof. ben Abdullau's circumstantially saying: translations from Coptic) "On the eastern or big - . . pyramid, built by the "The first pyramid was designed Thoth was one of the Company Ancients, the celestial spheres of Gods, and the oldest book in were inscribed; likewise the and constructed by Thoth the world, the Egyptian Book of positions of the stars and their to preserve the arts and the Dead, also says that he circles, together with the : . * ee designed and built the Great history and chronicles of past sciences and other scientific Pyramid from specifications in "a times of that which is to come acquirements during a deluge." ar descended "om Heaven and of every future event. aS. ampollion-Figeac, Also one may find there the Wisdom Literature, Paris, 1888). fixed stars and what comes He is mentioned in ancient about in their progression from one epoch to another astrological treatises as presiding over the "sixth climate", ... and images made of their forefathers' creations." which may be a reference to a regular cycle of (Masoudi, Manuscript No. 9576, British Museum) environmental changes occurring on Earth. Let us recall the words (date uncertain) of Sonchis, an Put simply, some of the Great Pyramid's inscriptions _ Egyptian priest from Sais, who said to Solon (638-559 were prophecies, and according to Ibn Haukal, an Arab BCE), an Athenian lawyer and merchant: traveller and writer also of the 10th century, if copied "You are all young in your souls, for you have not any down they "could fill ten thousand pages of the largest old traditions, any ancient belief or knowledge that is papyri sheets we can produce" (Murtedi, The History of hoary with age. And the reason of it is this: many the Marvellous Things in Egypt, c. 1710; an Arab author, have been the destructions of mankind, and many shall Murtedi drew his information from ancient manuscripts, be." Put simply, some of the Great Pyramid's inscriptions were prophecies, and according to Ibn Haukal, an Arab traveller and writer also of the 10th century, if copied down they "could fill ten thousand pages of the largest papyri sheets we can produce" (Murtedi, The History of the Marvellous Things in Egypt, c. 1710; an Arab author, Murtedi drew his information from ancient manuscripts, their original dates unknown). The procedures that the "Master Race"—the gods and goddesses—used to create these inscriptions and assemble the casing stones on the 51-degree slopes of the Great Pyramid are among the great mysteries of the past. One could even imagine that those exotic celestial messages were written at the hands of the gods and goddesses themselves. (Professor §. L. MacGuire, Manuscripts in the Glastonbury Library, Salisbury, 1922) Words spoken by another Egyptian priest in the Timaeus confirm that there were many earlier catastrophes: "You [Greeks] remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones." (Plato [c. 428-348 BCE], Timaeus, ch. 23) Giza Plateau once submerged Masoudi, repeating traditions of the Copts (descendants of the ancient Egyptians), says in Manuscript No. 9576 in the British Museum that the Great Pyramid was "inscribed with the unknown and unintelligible writings of people and of nations whose names and existence have long been since forgotten". However, the author of an allegedly 12th-century Coptic This information is supported in the Camoos [Dictionary] of Firazabadi, an extraordinary and rarely referenced book about Egypt's mysterious past, written in the eighth century but drawn from earlier documents. The original version is now held in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandrian Library). This document claims, like many old Arabic records, that the Great 54 ¢ NEXUS Ibn Batuta, a 14th-century Arab historian, makes this to preserve the arts and sciences and other scientific www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2008