the Great Pyramid may be found in sediments surrounding the base of the monument, in legends regarding watermarks on the stones halfway up its sides, and in salt incrustations found within. Silt sediments rising to fourteen feet around the base of the pyramid contain many seashells and fossils that have been radiocarbon-dated to be nearly twelve thousand years old. These sediments could have been deposited in such great quantities only by major sea flooding.
In support of this ancient flood scenario, mysterious legends and records tell of watermarks that were clearly visible on the limestone casing stones of the Great Pyramid before those stones were removed by the Arabs. These watermarks were halfway up the sides of the pyramid, or about 400 feet above the present level of the Nile River.
Further, when the Great Pyramid was first opened, incrustations of salt an inch thick were found inside. While much of this salt is known to be natural exudation from the stones of the pyramid, chemical analysis has shown that some of the salt has a mineral content consistent with salt from the sea. These salt incrustations, found at a height corresponding to the water level marks left on the exterior, are further evidence that at some time in the distant past the pyramid was submerged halfway up its height.
Salt deposits were found in the queens chamber, proving the pyramid itself has been under salt water, which makes it a pre-flood monument.
Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews 1:2:3 tells the following story about Seth and his descendants:
"...they also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day."
(Siriad is an ancient name for Egypt)
In 1987 Dormion and Goidon found a concealed chamber in the wall of the horizontal passage. They drilled about a one inch hole in it, and found it filled with mineral enriched sand.
Ashraf Fouad writes,(Vancouver Sun, March 7, 1987) "Laboratory tests showed it came from another part of Egypt and was sifted and enriched with minerals. Because of the mixture of the soils and flood history of Giza, my hunch would go for 'washed in'.
The point: Although they might get lucky, I would not expect to find anything of significance in the concealed chamber itself. However, THE SOIL CAN TELL HISTORICAL TALES OF ITS OWN. Some should be given to a reputable geologist (Butzer is on site) and a good geological laboratory. They already know the complex has been flooded more than once.*
Fast moving water can carry minerals and soils from many distant sources. Clues may be had to these floods that we didn't expect, and answer questions that we have not known to ask...
The Grand Gallery has 7-step corbeled side walls. Some parts of the Grand Gallery walls contain salt deposits, but not as much as in the Mid Chamber. The length of the Grand Gallery is 1881.5985600+ PI, and its width just above the ramp stones is 82.41 PI. The Grand Gallery is 28 feet high by 1881-1/3 PI long.
http://www.crystalinks.com/gpschematics.html
http://www.biblefacts.org/myth/pyramid.html
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf055/sf055p02.htm
http://egyptologist.org/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi?pg=prev&topic=8&page=8682
Some more quotes from Piazzi Smyth on salt in the Great Pyramid. One of these regarding a 'six inch' layer of salt was actually a bit misleading in isolation as he was only talking about a build up in one particular point that filled a detail so he could not measure it. He wasn't talking about a general layer six inches thick on the wall.
This is from his 'Life and Work at the Great Pyramid'.
"Further it is particularly noteworthy, that in going North to South in the Horizontal Passage, saline incrustations are observable on walls and floor, beginning at about 150 to 200 distance from the North end, and increasing in amount further South until at last both roof, walls, and floor are covered with a coating often near an inch thick, brown outside, white inside, and of almost stony hardness."
Queen's Chamber
"This substance must be regarded as a modern exudation of the stone, for some letters scratched on the North Wall, with date 1824, have now a raised outline in the salty matter around and upon them." (Smyth would have seen this in about 1860).
"Similar incrustations, too, are to be seen on the Horizontal part of the entrance passage and walls of the sepulchral chamber of the Second pyramid. That the salt is almost entirely common salt, or chloride of sodium, Dr Wallace's recent analysis confirms. As well as by my own late finding that the recent cut and polished specimens of the Great Pyramid casing stones, after being put away for a few months in a closet are quite salt to the tongue.
But that does not explain off itself why there should be 12 times as much salt found in the construction of the stone forming the lining of the Queen's Chamber as in any other part of the Pyramid or Pyramid Hill yet examined."
I also note that Zahi Hawass said that the Third Pyramid was closed for a period so that "salt could be cleaned off the walls". So that's salt in all three pyramids.
http://egyptologist.org/discus/messages/8/8682.html?1059446596
One of the books of Hermes describes certain of the pyramids as standing upon the sea-shore, "the waves of which dashed in powerless fury against its base." This implies that the geographical features of the country have been changed, and may indicate that we must accord to [the pyramids] . . . an origin antedating the upheaval of the
Sahara and other deserts.
It is food for thought that salt encrustation was discovered in the Queen's Chamber when it was first opened:
One of the greatest mysteries of this chamber has been the salt encrustation on the walls. It was up to one-half-inch thick in places, and Petrie took it into account when he made measurements of the chamber. The salt also was found along the Horizontal Passage and in the lower portion of the Grand Gallery. How did salt come to build up on the walls?
Those who have seen some significance in the presence of the salt have speculated that it could have been deposited on the walls as the water of the biblical Great Flood receded.
At least some of the salt may have been exuded from the limestone itself, because limestone is a rock consisting mainly of calcium carbonate, often composed of the organic remains of sea animals. Still, some of the salt has a mineral content consistent with sea salt. And there is more evidence for seawater surrounding the pyramids
If seawater once reached the level of the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, there must have been a considerable rise in sea level and, if they had been built, the valley and mortuary temples of the three pyramids as well as the Sphinx would have been under water. These temples are not closed structures and, had they been inundated, it is likely that rainfall or Nile flooding would have since washed away any salt encrustations. Furthermore:
The Sahara and its deserts in the northern part of Africa were once seas can be concluded from the salt plains in the Western Desert of Egypt.
