ABSTRACT
“No country possesses so many wonders and has such a number of works which defy description.” Of all these wonders, none have aroused greater interest throughout all ages, than the group of pyramids erected upon the Gizeh plateau, and particularly that one which, from its size and importance, has from the earliest times been known as the Great Pyramid, the largest of the three principal ones of the group. The Greeks of the time of Alexander the Great were so impressed by it that they regarded it as the first of the Seven Wonders of the world, of which it is the only one now left standing. Even the earliest records the authors have refrain from saying anything definite about it, and Egyptologists as a body still cling to the tombic theory of it as the solution, chiefly because other—and later—pyramids were intended as such.
