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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

immense quantities of gold and jewels they could now expect to find.
Similarly—though perhaps for different reasons, Ma’mun must have been
impatient to be the first into any chambers that lay ahead. It was reported
that his primary motive in initiating this investigation had not been an
ambition to increase his vast personal wealth but a desire to gain access
to a storehouse of ancient wisdom and technology which he believed to
lie buried within the monument. In this repository, according to age-old
tradition, the pyramid builders had placed ‘instruments of iron and arms
which rust not, and glasse which might be bended and yet not broken,
and strange spells ...’
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9 John Greaves, Pyramidographia, cited in Serpent in the Sky, p. 230.

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