Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debris of a ruined pyramid belonging to a child of the royal family who had made their tombs in the Southern cemetery," says Dr. Reisner, "we found to our great surprise a Greek rhyton of red-figured ware signed with the name of the known Athenian potter, Sotades, who lived about 450 B. C. This was borne on the back of an Amazon mounted on a horse, all beautifully modeled. Whether this masterpiece of the Athenian potter reached Meroe by trade or as a gift brought back by some Meroitic ambassador to Egypt must remain uncertain for the present...
...confusion on two separate hills may appear almost hopeless, although the procedure is really quite simple," says Dr. Reisner. Then he goes on to explain how the tombs, were separated into small groups, the members of each of which were united by contacts, by position, or by similarities of pyramid, chapel, foundation deposits, stairway, burial chambers, and accompanying objects; and how gradually, by the study of every detail, the exact order became clear...
...From 750 B. C., every ruler of Ethiopia was a male. About 160 B. C., the third generation after Ergamenes, the great queen who was buried in Pyramid N. VI seems to have been queen-regent for her son for perhaps ten years. About one hundred and thirty years later. Queen Amanshakhete, who reunited Ethiopia, appears to have been queen-regent under similar circumstances. Her son-in-law. Netekaman, the great builder of temples, obviously came to the throne by the hereditary position of his wife. Queen Amantere, who occupied an unusual position and received burial with the honors...
...being "an hundred cubits long and pitched within and without," it was solidly constructed of gigantic stone blocks; the completed edifice having four faces and four edges meeting in a point. In other words, the "ark" was, and still is for that matter, nothing less than the Great Pyramid of Cheeps...
Such in the startling theory of Dr. Getsinger, for thirty five years Egyptoloaist and research worker. First, he deduces from the marks of wave erosion which he finds at a common level on all the pyramids, that the Nile valley was for thousands of years under the sea. At this name time, he places the vanishing of the "lost kingdom of Atlantic". Years later Cheopa had the pyramids finished with smooth stone,--a publicity stunt still good after four thousand years. But nevertheless he was really only an interloper. Are not the "three stories" of Noah's Ark duplicated...