About this episode
Scott Creighton discusses the potential deception behind the discovery of the Khufu cartouche in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
In 1837, deep within the Great Pyramid of Giza, British army officer Colonel Richard W. Howard Vyse made a claim that would define Egyptology for generations: the “discovery” of painted hieroglyphs, including the royal cartouche of Khufu, the pyramid’s builder. This single event helped cement forever the idea that the Great Pyramid and all other pyramids at Giza were merely royal tombs. Yet when the surviving notebooks, sketches, and first-hand accounts from Vyse’s time are carefully examined, a different and deeply unsettling picture begins to emerge. These accounts reveal troubling discrepancies—erasures, manipulated dates, and contradictory statements—suggesting that the famous “Khufu cartouche” may not be ancient at all, but the product of a Victorian deception. In The Great Pyramid Hoax II, IT engineer and independent researcher, Scott Creighton, returns to the original 1837 evidence to conduct a forensic re-evaluation of what really happened inside those hidden chambers of the Great Pyramid. Through detailed textual, epigraphic, and contextual analysis, he demonstrates how Colonel Vyse’s actions—whether through ambition, desperation, or misunderstanding—effectively set…
People in this episode
Host: Cliff Dunning
Guest: Scott Creighton
Topics covered
- Egyptology
- Great Pyramid
- historical analysis
- deception
- ancient history
- archeology
Keywords
- Great Pyramid
- Khufu cartouche
- Egyptology
- historical discrepancies
- Scott Creighton
- Richard Vyse
- ancient Egypt
- pyramids
- Legend of Surid
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Great Pyramid Hoax II, Legend of Surid
Places: Egypt, Great Pyramid of Giza, Giza
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