Pyramid Quest (60 page)

Paracelsus

Peribsen (c. 2700 B.C.)

Persians

Petrie, Sir William Flinders

Phaedrus
(Plato)

Pharaoh

Pharaoh’s Pump
(Kunkel)

phi (Golden Section)

Philebus
(Plato)

Philitis

pi (π)

Pius VI (pope)

Plato

Precession

Predynastic Period

Princess Henutsen

Proclus (411?-485 A.D.)

Proctor, Richard A.

P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 (comet)

Ptolemaic period

Pyramid Handbook
(Gadalla)

Pyramidion

Pyramidographia
(Greaves)

Pyramid power

The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved
(Davidovits and Morris)

Pyramid Texts

Pythagoras

Random event generator (REG)

Rappenglueck, Michael

Re

Reader, Colin

Red Pyramid

Renaissance

Retainer burial

Rhind, Alexander Henry

Rhind Papyrus

Roman Catholic Church

Roman Empire

Roman foot

Rosenkreuz, Christian

Rosicrucianism

Russell, Charles Taze

The Sacred and the Profane
(Eliade)

Sacred sites

Said, Edward

Saqqara Plateau

Sass, Roselis von

Sayer, Anthony

Schiller, Friedrich

Schwaller de Lubicz, René Aor

The Search for Omm Sety
(Cott)

A Search in Secret Egypt
(Brunton)

Second Dynasty

The Secret Doctrine
(Blavatsky)

The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Hall)

Sed
festival

Sekhemkhet (2611-2603 B.C.)

Sellers, Jane

Serapis

Serdab

Séthos
(Terrasson)

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Sitchin, Zecharia

Slavery

Sloan, Sean

Smyth, Charles Piazzi

Snakes

Sneferu (2575-2551 B.C.)

Solon (638-559 B.C.)

The Solution of the Pyramid Problem
(Ballard)

Sphinx Temple

Square of Pegasus

Stanford Research Institute

Stecchini, Livio Catullo

Stela

Stepped pyramid

Step Pyramid

Strabo

Stretching of the cord

Sumeria

The Symbolic Prophecy of the Great Pyramid
(Lewis)

Tastmona, Thothnu (pseudonym of Paul Platt)

Taurus

Taylor, John

Temple, Robert

Temple of Amen-Ra

Temple of Karnak

Terrasson, Abbé Jean

Tesla, Nikola

Thales

Theosophists

Third Dynasty

Thoreau, Henry David

Thoth

Timaeus
(Plato)

Tomb of Queen Khentkawes

Tomb robbers

To-Mera

True north

Tsu Chung-chi

Tunguska explosion

Tuthmosis II,

Tuthmosis IV,

Twelfth Dynasty

Umm el-Saab (cemetery)

Upper Egypt

Valentine, Tom

Valley Temple

“The Veiled Image at Sais” (Schiller)

Verner, Miroslav

Vespasian (ruled 69 -79 A.D.)

Virgil

Virgin Mary

Vision quest

Von Däniken, Erik

von Hymmen, Johann Wilhelm Bernhard

Vyse, Richard William Howard

Washington Monument

Weathering

Wendorf, Fred

Wenke, Robert J.

West, John Anthony

Wilson, Gregg

Yardang

Zawyet el Amwat

Zosimus of Panopolis

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ROBERT M. SCHOCH, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics at Yale University. Dr. Schoch is known internationally for his work in Egypt; he has been quoted extensively in the media with reference to the Great Sphinx and ancient civilizations; and he has been featured in a number of documentaries, including the Emmy Award-winning
The Mystery of the Sphinx
. Dr. Schoch’s website is located at
www.robertschoch.net
.

 

 

ROBERT AQUINAS MCNALLY is a writer and poet whose early education in classical Latin blossomed into a lifelong fascination with ancient civilization and mythology. Schoch and McNally have previously collaborated on the books
Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations
(1999) and
Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America
(2003).