Pyramid Quest (60 page)
Authors: Robert M. Schoch
Tags: #History, #Ancient Civilizations, #Egypt, #World, #Religious, #New Age; Mythology & Occult, #Literature & Fiction, #Mythology & Folk Tales, #Fairy Tales, #Religion & Spirituality, #Occult, #Spirituality
Paracelsus
Peribsen (c. 2700 B.C.)
Persians
Petrie, Sir William Flinders
Phaedrus
(Plato)
(Plato)
Pharaoh
Pharaoh’s Pump
(Kunkel)
(Kunkel)
phi (Golden Section)
Philebus
(Plato)
(Plato)
Philitis
pi (π)
Pius VI (pope)
Plato
Precession
Predynastic Period
Princess Henutsen
Proclus (411?-485 A.D.)
Proctor, Richard A.
P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 (comet)
Ptolemaic period
Pyramid Handbook
(Gadalla)
(Gadalla)
Pyramidion
Pyramidographia
(Greaves)
(Greaves)
Pyramid power
The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved
(Davidovits and Morris)
(Davidovits and Morris)
Pyramid Texts
Pythagoras
Random event generator (REG)
Rappenglueck, Michael
Re
Reader, Colin
Red Pyramid
Renaissance
Retainer burial
Rhind, Alexander Henry
Rhind Papyrus
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Empire
Roman foot
Rosenkreuz, Christian
Rosicrucian Digest
Rosicrucianism
Russell, Charles Taze
The Sacred and the Profane
(Eliade)
(Eliade)
Sacred sites
Said, Edward
Saqqara Plateau
Sass, Roselis von
Savants
Sayer, Anthony
Schiller, Friedrich
Schwaller de Lubicz, René Aor
The Search for Omm Sety
(Cott)
(Cott)
A Search in Secret Egypt
(Brunton)
(Brunton)
Second Dynasty
The Secret Doctrine
(Blavatsky)
(Blavatsky)
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Hall)
(Hall)
Sed
festival
festival
Seked
Sekhemkhet (2611-2603 B.C.)
Sellers, Jane
Serapis
Serdab
Séthos
(Terrasson)
(Terrasson)
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Sitchin, Zecharia
Slavery
Sloan, Sean
Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Snakes
Sneferu (2575-2551 B.C.)
Solon (638-559 B.C.)
The Solution of the Pyramid Problem
(Ballard)
(Ballard)
Sphinx Temple
Square of Pegasus
Stanford Research Institute
Stecchini, Livio Catullo
Stela
Stepped pyramid
Step Pyramid
Strabo
Stretching of the cord
Sumeria
The Symbolic Prophecy of the Great Pyramid
(Lewis)
(Lewis)
Tastmona, Thothnu (pseudonym of Paul Platt)
Taurus
Taylor, John
Temple, Robert
Temple of Amen-Ra
Temple of Karnak
Terrasson, Abbé Jean
Tesla, Nikola
Thales
Theosophists
Third Dynasty
Thoreau, Henry David
Thoth
Timaeus
(Plato)
(Plato)
Tomb of Queen Khentkawes
Tomb robbers
To-Mera
True north
Tsu Chung-chi
Tunguska explosion
Tuthmosis II,
Tuthmosis IV,
Twelfth Dynasty
Umm el-Saab (cemetery)
Upper Egypt
Valentine, Tom
Valley Temple
“The Veiled Image at Sais” (Schiller)
Verner, Miroslav
Vespasian (ruled 69 -79 A.D.)
Virgil
Virgin Mary
Vision quest
Von Däniken, Erik
von Hymmen, Johann Wilhelm Bernhard
Vyse, Richard William Howard
Washington Monument
Weathering
Wendorf, Fred
Wenke, Robert J.
West, John Anthony
Wilson, Gregg
Yardang
Zawyet el Amwat
Zosimus of Panopolis
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ROBERT M. SCHOCH, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics at Yale University. Dr. Schoch is known internationally for his work in Egypt; he has been quoted extensively in the media with reference to the Great Sphinx and ancient civilizations; and he has been featured in a number of documentaries, including the Emmy Award-winning
The Mystery of the Sphinx
. Dr. Schoch’s website is located at
www.robertschoch.net
.
The Mystery of the Sphinx
. Dr. Schoch’s website is located at
www.robertschoch.net
.
ROBERT AQUINAS MCNALLY is a writer and poet whose early education in classical Latin blossomed into a lifelong fascination with ancient civilization and mythology. Schoch and McNally have previously collaborated on the books
Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations
(1999) and
Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America
(2003).
Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations
(1999) and
Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America
(2003).
a
Scholars continue to argue about exact dates in ancient Egyptian history. Throughout this book, we are following the chronology used in the authoritative
Atlas of Ancient Egypt
(New York: Facts on File, 1980) by John Baines and Jaromir Málek.
Atlas of Ancient Egypt
(New York: Facts on File, 1980) by John Baines and Jaromir Málek.
b
There is indeed an Arab legend that a mummy was found in the Great Pyramid, but this is generally dismissed as not being accurate; see the appendices, section on “Where was Khufu actually buried?”
c
Of course, the very concept of Egyptian dynasties and kingdoms is a later invention. The Old Kingdom Egyptians did not view themselves as of the “Old Kingdom.”
d
As Stecchini explains, in calculating the position of the noontime zenith on the solstice, the ancient Egyptians introduced a 15’ correction, since the sun is not a point in the sky but has an apparent diameter of a little over 30’.
e
In ancient Egypt, Ptah was a god of craftspersons, as well as a creator god; Ptahhotep, or Ptah-hotep, was a name used in Old Kingdom times, and one historical Ptah-hotep was an inspector of the priests during the Fifth Dynasty, around the twenty-fourth century B.C., whose tomb is preserved at Saqqara (see West, 1985, p. 177).
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