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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RECORD OF 

CONSTRUCTION OF THE GREAT PYRAMID GIZA

Hello!

What a week! Very busy going about the Lord’s business! Which I love but it is exhausting, lol! I hope you all had a little less hectic week than I and were able to rest in the Lord.

Speaking of resting, according to the journal of Near East Archaeology, in 2013 a team of both French and Egyptian archaeologists discovered papyrus fragments inscribed with hieroglyphic letters that have rested (according to the secular time scale) for

over 4,500 years. According to the unaltered truth recorded in the Bible, the time this document was written and thus the time Giza, the great pyramid, was built would be just after the language split at the tower of Babel around 2230 B.C., 4,250 years ago. 

The archaeologists came across a cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Wadi el-jarf. There they uncovered hundreds of the papyrus fragments that have since be dated the oldest ever unearthed in Egypt. “As Egyptologists Pierre Tallet and Gregory Marouard detailed in a 2014 article in the journal Near Eastern Archaeology, the ancient texts they discovered included a logbook from the 27th year of the reign of the pharaoh Khufu that described the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza… “The hieroglyphic letters inscribed in the logbook…by a middle-ranking inspector named Merer who detailed over the course of several months the construction operations for the Great Pyramid, which was nearing completion, and the work at the limestone quarries at Tura on the opposite bank of the Nile River. Merer’s logbook, written in a two-column daily timetable, reports on the daily lives of the construction workers and notes that the limestone blocks exhumed at Tura, which were used to cover the pyramid’s exterior, were transported by boat along the Nile River and a system of canals to the construction site, a journey that took between two and three days. The inspector, who led a team of sailors, also noted that the vizier Ankhhaef, Khufu’s half-brother and the ‘chief for all the works of the king,’ was overseeing the enormous construction project… After their discovery in the caves of Wadi el-Jarf, which is the most ancient maritime harbor known to date, the archaeologists transferred nearly 800 fragments of varying sizes in 100 glass

frames to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.”¹ Since then some of the papyri

have been put on public display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

“According to the Associated Press, ministry official Sabah Abdel-Razek told the Egyptian state-news agency that other papyri describe food distribution to workers, including one in clear hieroglyphics that records the number of sheep imported for the project. Another ministry official, Hussein Abdel-Bassir, told the Associated Press, ‘These show the administrative power and the (advanced) central nature of the state at the time of Khufu.’ ”²

These ancient discoveries are both valuable and fascinating. When placed in the proper timescale it shows that even right after the split at the tower of Babel, ancient man possessed great intelligence and knowledge. 

Until next time, 

God bless and take care!

Willow Dressel

References:

http://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-great-pyramid-construction