Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 2) (London, 1841)

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(Cyriaci Anconitoni Itincrarum, Florent. 1742.)

CYRIACUS (1440)

Was greatly astonished at the size of the Pyamids, and having
ascended to the summit of the Great Pyramid, he saw an inscrip-
tion in Phoenician characters, —" Phcenicibus characteribus
epigramma."1

BREYDENBACH, MAYENCE (1486).

he returned from his travels 1484.

Breydenbach visited Egypt, hut he merely observes that he saw,
near the Nile, a number of Pyamids, which had been erected over
the tombs of the antient monarchs of the country; that they had
been erroneously considered as granaries built by Joseph, in order
to provide against the seven years of famine mentioned in the
Scriptures : an account which could not be true, as they were
composed of solid masonry.8

BART HO LOME US DE SALIGNACE (1550)

Mentions that the Pyramids were about five leagues from
Babylon, of great height, and that they were supposed to have
been granaries built by Joseph.

B ELLON I US (1553),

After quoting Herodotus, says, that the height of the Great
Pyramid was a thousand feet, the ranges of stone two hundred

1 The author made plans or drawings of the Pyramids. See Vossius, lib.viii.
3 This observation is very remarkable, as the Great Pyramid appears to be the
only one which contains any chambers in the superstructure.