THE

GREAT PYRAMID. •■

CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF THE PYRAMIDS.

Few subjects of inquiry have proved more perplexing
than the question of the purpose for which
the pyramids of Egypt were built. Even in the
remotest ages of which we have historical record,
nothing seems to have been known certainly on
this point. For some reason or other, the builders
of the pyramids concealed the object of these
structures, and this so successfully that not even a
tradition has reached us which purports to have
been handed down from the epoch of the pyramids
' construction. We find, indeed, some explanations
given by the earliest historians ; but they
were professedly only hypothetical, like those advanced
in more recent times. Including ancient
and modern theories, we find a wide range of

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