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By John Ashton, David Down
Adults and kids alike were interested by the Egyptian civilization for many years, yet most recent archaeologists have in recent times attempted to take advantage of Egyptian chronology to dispute the biblical list of Joseph, Moses, and the Exodus. scholars from highschool to the varsity point are confronted with a problem to their religion as lecturers cite the conventional chronology as truth to discredit the biblical account of Exodus. those that desire to safeguard their religion within the accuracy of the Bible now have wish during this fascinating new booklet that offers a correct and compelling new chronology that confirms the biblical account.
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P The ascending corridor is 129 feet (39 m) long and only a little over 42 inches high (1 m) which makes ascending it in a crouching posture a back-bending exercise. access tunnel alerted them to the presence of this passage, and they changed direction to link up with this ascending passage and thence into the body of the pyramid. 5 miles (12 km) across the other side of the Nile. These blocks had to be dragged to the river, floated across, and hauled to the building site. Most of these stones have been stripped off by local builders in the not-too-distant past, leaving the inner stones exposed.
The reassembled statue is now in the Cairo Museum. On the east side of the great pyramid are three smaller pyramids. There are no inscriptions in them to identify their owners, but it is usually assumed that the two southern ones belong to Khufu’s queens, Meritites and Henutsen. Some scholars feel that the third one may have been for his mother Hetepheres, because her burial shaft is just to the north of this pyramid, but it would be rather strange for her to have a pyramid and a burial shaft at a distance from the pyramid.
Eighty-two feet (25m) down they found stone blocks plastered together. Under this course of masonry they found a tomb chamber filled with fabulous treasures, one of which bore the name of Hetepheres. It took many months to remove, preserve, and catalogue all these valuables, but at last, on March 3, 1927, the dramatic moment came when they opened the sarcophagus. As the lid rose, those present eagerly leaned forward for their first glimpse of the golden coffin they expected to find beneath. There was a gasp of surprise when they realized that the sarcophagus was empty.