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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

monument in 1818. His huge and flamboyant graffito, daubed in black
paint high on the south side of the chamber, was a reminder of basic
human nature: the desire that all of us feel to be recognized and
remembered. It was clear that Khafre himself had been far from immune
from this ambition, since repeated references to him (as well as a number
of flattering statues) appeared in the surrounding funerary complex. If
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he had indeed built the pyramid as his tomb, it seemed inconceivable
that such a man would have failed to stamp his name and identity
somewhere within its interior. I found myself wondering yet again why
Egyptologists were so unwilling to consider the possibility that the
funerary complex might have been Khafre’s work and the pyramid
someone else’s?
But who else’s?

11 Traveller’s Key to Ancient Egypt, p. 123.

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