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Pyramid was built before a catastrophic deluge, in ancient times called the "Flood of Waters" (ibid.). This assertion is supported by little-discussed descriptions in Herodotus' The Histories; for example: "I observed that there were sea shells upon the hills, and calcified high on the carved edifice itself [the Great Pyramid] ... and that salt exuded from the soil to such an extent as even to injure the pyramids." Pyramid was built before a catastrophic deluge, in ancient — school of mystical and philosophical studies, records that times called the "Flood of Waters" (ibid.). This assertion there was an "anciently damaged spot" on the northern is supported by little-discussed descriptions in Herodotus' _ face of the Great Pyramid (On the Mysteries, particularly The Histories; for example: those of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and the Assyrians, "I observed that there were sea shells upon the hills, fourth century). Thus, the "great white rock" is a and calcified high on the carved edifice itself [the description of the Great Pyramid. In 820 CE, Abdullah Great Pyramid] ... and that salt exuded from the soil Al-Mammum, an Arab prince, used that hole as his to such an extent as even to injure the pyramids." starting point to dig a tunnel into the structure. He eventually intersected a narrow sloping passageway, today When Danish author Frederic Louis Norden visited the called the "descending passage", and then set about pyramids in the mid-1790s, more than 2,200 years after exploring the interior of the Great Pyramid. Herodotus, there were still sea shells on the Giza Plateau. In any case, Masoudi's record presupposes that the Great He was surprised to find... Pyramid was the only pyramid then in existence, and King "\..a great number of shells and petrified oysters, Saurid Ibn Salhouk authorised the construction of two which is so much the more surprising, as the Nile similarly shaped structures nearby. Maybe one of them never rises high enough to cover this plain; besides was the translucent alabaster pyramid that stood west of that, though it should reach thither, the Great Pyramid (ref. "Golden it could not be considered as the Armour", a report by Professor cause of them, since this river Greaves, c. 1897, held in the neither carries, nor has throughout Bibliotheca Alexandrina) before it was its whole course, any shellfish. "demolished" in 590 BCE (The Although there are no shellfish in Histories). the Nile, yet they abound in the Red The comments of In a rare ninth-century document Sea, it might be asked, from where Herodotus and Norden written by Arab historian Ibn Abd cometh these shells of such as one Hokm, we find this intriguing passage: finds built up against the pyramids reveal that sea shells "The great number of chronologists themselves?" permeated the sand agrees that he who built the (Frederic Louis Norden, Travels in pyramids [excluding the Great Egypt and Nubia, published via the around the area, Pyramid] was Saurid Ibn Salhouk, Royal Society of Sciences, Copenhagen, 1755-1757) king of Egypt, who lived three hundred years before a great flood. The occasion of this was because he saw in a dream that the whole Earth was turned over, with the inhabitants of it, the men lying upon their faces, and the stars falling down and striking one another with a terrible noise: and being troubled, he trembled. Awakening with great fear, he assembled the revealing that at one stage in its existence the pyramid plateau was under the sea. The comments of Herodotus and Norden reveal that sea shells permeated the sand around the entire area, revealing that at one stage in its existence the pyramid plateau was under the sea. We shall now try to determine when and how this happened. Masoudi writes that Saurid Ibn Salhouk, an ancient king of Egypt, built two new pyramids near... chief priests of all the provinces of Egypt, one "\..a great white rock which rose out of the plain, and hundred and thirty in number, the chief of whom was the rock was higher than mountains and angular so Aclimon, and related the whole matter to them. They that its countenance set the four segments of the orb, took the altitude of the stars and, making their and it narrowed upwards to the starry heavens; but that prognostications, foretold of a deluge. The king said: rock was old, older than time itself." "Will it come to our country?’ They answered: 'Yes, (Masoudi, Les Prairies d'Or, tome ii, translated by C. and it will destroy it.' But there remained a certain Barbier de Meynard; similar description in the 2nd- number of years for it to come, and he commanded in century Pastor of Hermas, Whitehaven Books, London, the meantime to build two pyramids with vaults as 1942; also cited by H. P. Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled, 1877, storehouses for all kinds of wonders and treasures. On book ii, "Theology", p. 245) the walls and ceilings of the pyramids were engraved such sciences as astronomy, mathematics and In Isis Unveiled, this "great white rock" is described as medicine." being "old, having a hole hewn out of it", and Iamblichus (Ibn Abd Hokm, translated document held in the (250-330 CE), a Syrian representative of the Alexandrian Bibliotheca Alexandrina) revealing that at one stage in its existence the pyramid plateau was under the sea. In Isis Unveiled, this "great white rock" is described as being "old, having a hole hewn out of it", and Iamblichus (250-330 CE), a Syrian representative of the Alexandrian NEXUS ¢ 55 The comments of Herodotus and Norden reveal that sea shells permeated the sand around the area, AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com