Great Pyramid: Its Secrets & Mysteries Revealed

by Charles Piazzi Smyth

A detailed look at the architecture and construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza features information on its occult meanings and mysteries and includes forty black-and-white illustrations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 051726403X
• ISBN13: 9780517264034
• Release Date: October 1978
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Details...details

Well if you like detail and descriptions, this book is for you. It is necessary to prove his point, though. This author has really done his research on the Great Pyramid. Lots of measurements and math. It is a fascinating read and worth some serious reading time.

Amazing, thorough, inspiring!

Having seen many hypothesis put forth about the greatest pyramid, popularly known as Khufu's or Cheops' pyramid, I can only say that this book does the best job by far. Smyth's researches are exacting, practical, logical, and he clearly goes as far as he possibly can in each examination to ask the question of what may have been missed. What several other researchers had done sloppily, out of lack of funds or lack of drive or simple lack of perfectionism, he explores. His resultant calculations, postulations and compilations result in what I firmly believe is the most definitive work in the scientific world of a building which, to me, is very clearly God-planned. A fascinating work!

Worth Reading

The book is an excellent work of a man dedicated to His science and religion. Even if you don't agree with Smyths summation, he still evokes one to question......What do we really know??, What if all we've been told about this one pyramid is wrong?? And What can the measurements of the great Pyramid tell us about the original builders knowledge of the world around him. His arguements are strong and yet unheard of by many.

A "must read" for any serious student of the Great Pyramid

This book is well worth a read. It is somewhat difficult to read, being written in Victorian English, but that adds to its appeal, since its literary complexity gives the reader an idea of how great minds helped science progress to what it is now. This book was long considered the authoritative text on the Great Pyramid, and it is not hard to see why. Its content is exhaustive, and a good example of "a job well done." I was pleasantly surprised to see how much mathematics, metrology, science, and Judeo-Christian (!) spiritual content exists within the Great Pyramid. Smyth, the then former Royal Astronomer of Scotland, also approaches the various points of view regarding its origin and construction very thoroughly. All in all, this book is worth the effort to read it and I would advise the reader to take his/her time (I spent 10 months on it) with it so that it can be fully enjoyed. What a challenging and neat book!