In order to get the most objective results, Dr. Lehner sent his samples to two different labs. To his amazement and that as well as the distress of many others, both labs dated the mortar from the bottom blocks of the pyramid to 1400 BC and the mortar from the top blocks of the pyramid to 3000 BC! Had the pyramid had been built upside down— its top before its bottom? Actually, the dates were more likely indications of when the mortar had been exposed to contaminating organic matter by the removal of the original covering stones. The Great Pyramid was surfaced with “casing stones” of highly polished white limestone. Very few of the original covering stones remain today. If these odd dates for the age of the mortar reveal the time when the covering stones were removed, then the top of the pyramid was exposed in 3000 BC—a date closer to the pole star alignment of 3350 BC and 450 years before Khufu existed.
Archaeologists point to an important piece of evidence supporting their view that Khufu built the Great Pyramid: his cartouche painted in red ochre in the relieving chambers above the King’s Chamber. Archaeologists point to this as clearly indicating that the builders were working for Khufu. Here again we have a controversy; Walter M. Allen of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania states that his great-grandfather was Humphries W. Brewer, who had been one of the stonemasons working with Howard Vyse, the discoverer of the red-paint Khufu cartouche. Allen states that he possessed family documents in which Brewer states that he witnessed a man named Hill, who was also working for Vyse, go into the pyramid with red paint and a brush. He said that Brewer objected to these forgeries but was then fired by Vyse and banned from the site. Brewer later worked for the German Egyptologist Lepsius and tried to examine the marks inside the pyramid but was refused permission by Vyse. Adding to this story is that Howard Vyse drew the cartouche of Khufu in his own journal in 1837 incorrectly spelled! However, the argument that the red ink cartouche is or was once misspelled is also controversial because there were other journals at the time of Howard Vyse that show it spelled correctly. Furthermore, a portion of one of the red ink marks is supposedly behind an original stone, making it unlikely that anyone in the 1800s could have drawn it, unless he intentionally made it appear as if it were behind the original stone.
Let’s move on to the discovery of the timeline inside this pyramid and its eventual correlation to the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
For many years much attention has been and continues to be given to the Mayan prophecy of 2012—how the Mayan Long Count Calendar ended a 13-Baktun cycle on the Winter Solstice, December 21-23, 2012 and how Mayan astronomical observations identified a rare alignment of our sun in the exact center of the Milky Way Galaxy when viewed from Earth in our present time—a celestial event that occurs only every 25,826.54 years. But little attention has been given to the ancient Egyptian prophecy found in the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. Like the Mayan prophecy, the Great Pyramid prophecy also points to these present times. Surprisingly, in the 1800s and early 1900s much of this timeline inside the Great Pyramid was well known and much was written about it. Some of the most important scientists and researchers of that time had detailed knowledge of this timeline and how it correlated with content in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Eventually, points along the timeline were associated with world events, taking it to the level of a prophecy about humankind’s journey through material incarnations.
How was this timeline and its prophecy discovered? There were two ways. The first factor dealt with the design of the interior of the Great Pyramid which was unlike anything ever found around the globe in antiquity and would be nearly impossible to recreate today. Therefore, the minds that studied the pyramid’s unusual features and amazing craftsmanship knew it had to be more than simply a tomb.
Researcher W. Marsham Adams wrote: “That its various features are meaningless, or the mere result of caprice, is a suggestion to which the forethought and lavishness of the calculation displayed in every detail unmistakably gives the lie. Nor again can we maintain that they are necessary for the purposes of an ordinary tomb. For, they are not to be found in other pyramids which were used for that purpose.” (1, p. 34)
Adams’ last statement that they were not ordinary tombs is correct, because none of the major pyramids in Egypt contained a mummy— none. The Great Pyramid and perhaps all of the major Egyptian pyramids, as well as their intricate passageways and chambers were more likely used for active services and ceremonies. Given their apparent association with death, the pyramids may well have been used for death-like initiations or for preparing select individuals for dying and death and subsequent activity after death.
W. Marsham Adams knew this because in his publication, The Book of the Master, quoting from a letter by Sir Gaston Maspero, Adams identifies “the prevalence of a tradition among the priests of Memphis” that “the Secret House [Great Pyramid] was the scene where the neophyte was initiated into the mysteries.” (1, p. 179)
Archaeologists concede that no mummy was ever found in any of the major pyramids in Egypt and the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid never had a lid.
The second factor that contributed to finding the timeline inside the Great Pyramid was the discovery of a measurement associated with the construction of this pyramid. In 1646, John Greaves, professor of astronomy at Oxford, published his Pyramidographia in which he first theorized that the Great Pyramid at Giza was constructed by a geometric cubit, which he called the “Memphis cubit.” In 1737, the antiquarian Thomas Birch published research papers based on Greaves’ hypothetical cubit. Even Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) used Greaves’ measurements of the Great Pyramid and published them in a paper entitled “A Dissertation upon the Sacred Cubit.” In this paper Newton correlated the “Memphis cubit” to the cubit in the Bible. This measurement and its association with the Bible fired up religiously oriented researchers, particularly Christian researchers, who found many correlates between Egyptian theology and Judeo-Christian concepts and stories (i.e., such as an immaculate conception of the Messiah, Isis conceiving Horus without copulation, and then Horus overcoming Satan, who was Set in Egyptian lore). These researchers began investigating with a more religious view. They were also aided by the translation of the Rosetta Stone (1822), making the Egyptian Book of the Dead of readable. It wasn’t long before the measurement and the esoteric elements of the Egyptian Book of the Dead were united. Sir Gaston Maspero (1846-1919), the famous French Egyptologist, professor of archaeology, and developer of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, explained, “The [Great] pyramid and The Egyptian Book of the Dead reproduce the same original, the one in words, the other in stone.” (12, p. 88)
This theory, along with other ideas, became known as Pyramidology. Two essential elements of pyramidology were: (1) that the ancient Egyptian theology and cosmology, both highly moral and spiritual, asserted that human beings were “godlings” formed by the Creator of the entire universe and were destined to return to that condition; and (2) that the amazing construction of the Great Pyramid was done intentionally to preserve a hidden prophecy about these godlings, their journey through evolution, and their ultimate destiny among the stars of the heavens. Judeo-Christian theology—of which most of these early researchers were adherents—considered humans to have been originally created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27), and Christians believed that Jesus Christ affirmed human godliness in his statement in the Gospel of John 10:34: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’” The law he is referring to is found in Psalm 82:6: “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you . . . .” Additionally, Egypt had a major role in the Bible stories that most of these researchers accepted as truth. There was even a verse in the Bible that pyramidologists believed was referring to the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. (More on this later.)
The Judeo-Christian influence came early on via the Coptic Christians, who were the descendants of the ancient Egyptians. Islam did not arrive in Egypt until six hundred years after Christ. Researcher and author David Davidson believed that from the Egyptian Book of the
