By Ali Abo Dashish and Nawal Sayed
CAIRO, Feb. 7 (SEE) - Zahi Hawass,
well-known archaeologist, responded to the British Express newspaper's
allegations about the Great Pyramid in Giza and described them as
"illusions."
The Express claimed that the name
of Khufu, which was discovered on the walls of the Great Pyramid and one of the
seven ancient wonders of the world, was engraved in May 1837.
On his part, Hawass said that these are mere illusions made by people do not understand Egyptology, stressing that "Zecharia Sitchin who made these allegations is not an Egyptologist, but he does not know what was found inside the Khufu pyramid."
"I have never heard his
name," Hawass added.
He
pointed out that five rooms were discovered inside the pyramid of Khufu,
including four inscriptions bearing the names of the workers who participated
in the construction of the pyramid.
"There
was also a band called the White Crown, the group of friends of King Khufu, and
these inscriptions were written in red," he noted.
He revealed that there is an evidence that King Khufu sent a mission in the year 27 of his reign to bring the "muff" which means in hieroglyphics 'the red color' in which inscriptions were written.
Hawass explained that the French mission discovered in Jan. the method of transporting stones to build the pyramid, in addition to discovering tombs of workers next to the pyramid, which contains the names of workers who built the pyramid.
Three
years ago, a papyrus called "Valley of the shelf" was found in the
Sinai. It revealed the time, the history of the construction of Khufu pyramid
and the process of transferring stones to complete the construction.
The Egyptian
archeologist added that Sitchin is a fame-seeker
who decided to exploit the name of famous Khufu to get some media spotlight
worldwide.
Director of the Antiquities Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Hussein Bassir said that the affiliation of the Great Pyramid to King Khufu is unquestionable and that King Khufu's name is written inside the five rooms above the ceiling of the burial chamber of the King in his Great Pyramid in Giza.
Basir
confirmed that these hieroglyphic writings were written to confirm the existence
of the name King Khufu and the Englishman Howard Fayez discovered these five
chambers in 1837 AD.
It's
too difficult to reach the place where the name of Khufu is engraved, according
to Basir who pointed out that a man called Fayez was the first to reach that
place so it was not known before 1837.
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