6. Strouhal, Life of the Ancient Egyptians, 92.
7. BBC, “Sacred Ibis,” www.biologydir.com/sacred-ibis-threskiornis-aethiopicus-info-11882.html (accessed July 7, 2014).
8. Schoedler, Book of Nature, 580.
9. Allen, Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, 33.
CHAPTER 6. GUNPOWDER AND PLOT
1. Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. 62, 680.
2. Vyse, Operations, Vol. I, 225.
3. Edwards, The Pyramids of Egypt, 141.
4. Sitchin, Journeys, 30–31.
5. Vyse, Operations, Vol. I, 216.
6. Vyse, Private Journal, entry from June 16th, 1837.
7. Ibid., entry from May 27th, 1837.
8. Dina Abdel-Alim, Day 7 Magazine, www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=1356323#.U7vtrUCdTfX (accessed July 8, 2014).
CHAPTER 7. AGES OF DELUGE AND DROUGHT
1. Werner, Myths and Legends of China, 56.
2. Wilkins, Mysteries of Ancient South America, 31.
3. “J Harlen Bretz,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Harlen_Bretz (accessed May 31, 2014).
4. Li et al., “Synchronizing a Sea-Level Jump.”
5. O’Riordan, “Coral Reef.”
6. Marshall et al., “Late Pleistocene and Holocene Drought Events.”
7. Scotsman, “Ancient Egypt Was Destroyed by Drought.”
8. “List of Dynasties,” note 2, on “granaries,” California Institute for Ancient Studies, www.specialtyinterests.net/dyn3.html (accessed May 31, 2014).
9. Alan Winston [Jimmy Dunn], “The Mortuary Temple, Serdab, Northern Courtyard and the West Mounds of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, Egypt,” Tour Egypt, www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dsteppyramid3.htm (accessed May 31, 2014).
10. Lauer, Saqqara, 98.
11. Bard, Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, 864.
12. Ibid., 129.
13. Petrie, Pyramids and Temples, 80–82.
14. Howard Vyse, Operations, 206–7.
15. Dave Roberts, “Scientist Explains Likely Cause of Grain Elevator Explosions,” KWCH, http://articles.kwch.com/2012-02-02/grain-dust_31019435 (accessed May 31, 2014).
16. Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, 363.
17. Hassan, Sphinx, 222–24.
18. John Anthony West, private e-mail to Scott Creighton.
19. W. Woelfli and W. Baltensperger, “On the Change of Latitude of Arctic East Siberia at the End of the Pleistocene,” Cornell University Library, http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2489 (accessed May 30, 2014).
20. W. Woelfli and W. Baltensperger, “Traditions Connected with the Pole Shift Model,” Cornell University Library, http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5078 (accessed May 30, 2014).
21. Creighton and Osborn, Giza Prophecy, 243–48.
22. Dilbeck, “Opening the Gates of Paradise.”
23. Ibid.
CHAPTER 8. FLYING STONES
1. Lehner, Complete Pyramids, 215.
2. Ibid., 211.
CHAPTER 9. PROJECT OSIRIS
1. Plato, Timaeus.
2. Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations, 275.
3. Nichols, “Herodotus and Diodorus Verified by Belzoni,” 315.
4. Lehner, Complete Pyramids, 124.
5. Milly Farrell, acting curator, Royal College of Surgeons, London, private e-mail to Scott Creighton.
6. Tooley, “Osiris Bricks,” 171–72.
7. Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, li.
8. Griffiths, Origins of Osiris, 66–67.
CHAPTER 10. JOURNEY'S END
1. Elizabeth Kaye McCall, “Saving the Secrets of the Sands: Zahi A. Hawass,” Guardian’s Egypt, www.guardians.net/hawass/article1a.htm (accessed May 31, 2014).
2. Budge, The Book of the Dead, 59–60.
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Index
Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations.
All page number are refer to the print edition of this title.
Abdel-Alim, Dina, 136–37
Abu Roash pyramid, 203
Aclimon, 18–19
Africa, 146
African Humid Period, 145
afterlife, 79–80, 199–201
Agassiz, Lake, 143, 152–53
Aida, 32
akh, 97–98
akhet, 97–103, 97, 100, 103
Akhet Khufu, 92–93, 95–107, 97, 100
Akkadian Empire, 215
Alhokim, Ibn Abd, 17
Allen, James P., 106
Allen, Walter M., 113–14
Alm, Brian, 63–64
Al Nilam, 166
Al Nitak, 164, 166, 175–76
Alongi, Dan, 144
Amaunet, 197
amphitheater at Giza, 6, 31–33
Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, The,106
anonymous chambers, 59–64
Ante Chamber, 76–78, 77
Antiquities Guards, 33–34, 41–42,
85–86, 89
Apis bull, 206–7
Arabs, 19–21
Arctic Sea, 172–73, 174, 176
ark of the gods, 1–2, 25–26, 177–81
artificial mountains, 25
Ascending Passage, 72–74
Assmann, Jan, 96
ba, 62–63, 96–97
Babbit, Frank Cole, 43–44
balloon bulb, 195–98, 196–97
balloons, 188–92
Baltensperger, W., 171–72, 173–74, 176
Baptistery, 178–79
barley, 204
barycenter, 36–41, 37
Bates, Richard, 145–46
Battuta, 21
Bauval, Robert, 7, 9–10, 28, 63, 69–70
Beban el Malook, 206
Belzoni, Giovanni, 205–6, 210
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benben stones, 88
Bent Pyramid, 58–59
black sediment, 150–51
Blue Nile River, 145
boats, 79–80
body of Christ, 43, 204
body of Osiris, 2, 203–11
bone fragments, 80, 205–8, 209–10
Book of the Dead, The, 212
Boorstin, Daniel J., 4
Bretz, J. Harlen, 141–44
Brewer, Humphries, 113–15
British Museum, 131–32, 132
Budge, E. A. Wallis, 23, 94, 212
bull bones, 205–8, 209–10
burials, 44. See also intrusive burials
Cairo, Egypt, 4–5
Campbell, Patrick, 112
Campbell’s Chamber, 118–29. See also
Khufu cartouches
Carter, Howard, 112, 209–10
catastrophism, 141–44, 142
Cayce, Edgar, 16
cenotaph pyramids, 57
Cepherenes, 206
Chi, 141
China, flood story of, 141
chthonic temples, 212–13, 215
circumcenter, 36–41, 37
Clift, William, 205, 208
Columbia Basin, 141–42
concavities of pyramids, 28–29, 34–35
construction of pyramids, 182–98, 191–97
Cordilleran Ice Sheet, 142–43, 142, 170
corn mummies, 204
Corpus Hermeticum, 16–17, 40
cosmic order, 200–201
counterweight systems, 183
Creighton, Scott
barriers to discovery, 82–91
end of journey, 216–23
offering of, 40–41
travels of, 4–15, 31–36
crested ibis, 97–98, 101–2, 104
cult of Osiris, 159
Dahshur pyramid, 203
Dakota smokeless fire pits, 190–91, 193, 193
Daoud, 114
Davison, Nathaniel, 109
Day 7 Magazine, 136–37
death, 201–2
deglaciation, 143
deluge, 140–42, 142, 153–54, 177–81, 178–80
Dendera, 196–98
Descending Passage, 72–73, 78
Dilbeck, Gwynne Ann, 178, 179–80
Diodorus, 206
disaster-recovery plan, 23–26
dismembered body of Osiris, 2
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