There is no way to ever do justice to these ancient monuments in a few words. Suffice it to say that I most certainly do NOT subscribe to the orthodox Egyptologist theory of how or why the Great Pyramid was built.
If you are interested in that and a lot more besides, I suggest you read my book The Face on Mars, where there is a lot of detail about the Great Pyramid as well as a lot of other information.
On this particular trip I was able to verify that there is indeed a carving, higher up on the pyramid, where tourists are not generally permitted to go, an inscription that remains untranslated, being composed of unknown symbols. According to Peter Lemesurier, this inscription, which is only reported in his book The Great Pyramid Decoded in the form of a sketch (presumably a reproduction made by an earlier explorer, much like the drawings of various inscriptions reproduced by explorers in the 19th and early 20th Centuries) is of much older origin and the only inscription that could be said to be found on the original monument.
Interestingly enough, this inscription is also found right at the real entrance of the Great Pyramid. The entrance used today was merely one created by the brute force methods of exploration used by the 7th Abbasid Caliph, Al-Mamun of Baghdad to dig and blast his way inside the pyramid with explosives. At least, that’s the story.
More recently, Captain Giovanni Battista Caviglia, in 1817, used dynamite. Despite this crude methodology, Caviglia was actually a very interesting man and his efforts did contribute in a positive fashion too. The picture of the inscription I took is, as far as I know, the only one that exists that proves Lemesurier’s mention of it was factual. The picture on the left is the drawing given in Lemesurier’s book and the photo on the right is one I took myself in August of 2008. You can see a larger version of the photograph in my Image Gallery for the Egypt Trip
