'I have cited evidence which suggests that both
pyramids were renovated at the beginning of the 1st Dynasty, or thereabouts, and I have speculated that the Second Pyramid was constructed at the same time as the Sphinx, and was inspired by the Great Pyramid, which
already existed from an even earlier epoch.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 377)'a plausible scenario... would entail the Great Pyramid being built many centuries prior to 4000 bc, and thereafter being safeguarded by a
group of priests, with access perhaps to the sacred books of wisdom. These priests would have been pressured by the people to open up the holy books c. 4000-3760 bc, whereupon the books might have been locked
away again until the time of Menes.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 385)
'It is my view that the two giant pyramids of Giza, the megalithic temples and the Sphinx were already in existence at this time, c. 3100
bc, under the control of the priests rather than the kings, and may well have influenced Menes' decision to relocate [from Abydos to Memphis].'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 352)
'it seems entirely reasonable that an
already-existing Pyramid became the focus of a religious cult, which regarded it as a means of ascending to the heavens.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 321)
'Egyptologists will find my idea of multiple burials beneath
'Khufu's' Great Pyramid utterly absurd, and therein lies the attraction of making this my first specific prediction, namely that such apartments do exist beneath the Great Pyramid, and will be found to contain traces of
more than one original burial.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 412)
'I must mention once again the importance of Giza as early as the 1st Dynasty (and possibly earlier), the anomalous results from radiocarbon dating, and
the give-away inscription that reveals Khufu to have been working on the western cemetery for his humble officials in 'year 5' of his reign. Oh, we must not, of course, forget the weathering of the Sphinx! The most
powerful argument in my mind, however, is the entire archaeological context of the Giza site, which, somewhat ironically, lies at the heart of the orthodox 4th Dynasty dating. The eminent Egyptologist Mark Lehner has
challenged anyone to show him 'one pottery shard' of an earlier civilisation, but this assumes a major cultural presence at the site, which was patently not the case. Lehner would have us all looking at our feet for
potsherds so that we don't look up and see the enormous Pyramids and megalithic temples, which are spectacularly out-of-place in the standard Egyptian chronology.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 375)
'The Egyptian
government have announced a $5m 10-year project to reface Menkaure's pyramid with red granite casing stones, but if radiocarbon dating anomalies are anything to go by, the ancient Egyptian kings were refurbishing the
pyramids of Giza 5,000 years ago. Is history repeating itself?'
(The Phoenix Solution caption to Plate 45)
