Knowing more about the Pyramids in Egypt had been one of the favorite encounters of the archaeologists of all time.
It was in the 19th century, 1837 to be exact when a British archaeologist, Richard Howard Vyse was known as one of the influential egyptologist dated this gigantic and well-engineered building to have been built in or around 2500 B.C.
He with his team found something about the pyramids that had been under the covers. According to his research, the walls and some of the ceilings had something written in hieroglyphics (Egyptian Writing System).
He proclaimed to find two of the Pharoah’s official monograms on the walls; Khufu and Khnum-Khufu.
On the basis of these revelations, the said Egyptologist imputes the Pharoah as the builder of the Pyramids of Giza.
History has never remained unchallenged for a long time. People are always eager to find something fishy in one’s findings. History is also accused of being biased and not accurate absolutely all the time.
Richard Vyse enjoyed the crown of the first person to date the Pyramids, not for a long time.
Researchers had already been suspicious about Vyse’s proclamation buy it was in the year 2014 that two student archaeologists succeeded to get the samples of the substance which was used in the cartouche of the Pharoah.
The results shook the belief of the world about the Pyramids. The smart students from the University of Dresden confronted Vyse’s finding.
The substance they took for the observation was claimed to be the inscription by the Pharoah himself. According to them, the paint doesn’t date to the 2500 B.C.
The history was manipulated in the hands of the British Egyptologist, Richard Vyse. He and his team added the hieroglyphics later on during the repair of the ancient Pyramids.
The question here arises, why would an archaeologist of such caliber create a hoax?
Research says that Richard Howard Vyse’s expenditure on the whole quest of dating the Pyramids was around 1.3 million dollars.
One of his writings suggests him being failed in finding any hieroglyphics.
However, it was some years later, in his official book, that he found only one cartouche of the Pharoah Khufu.
The inventory Stella proved to be the last nail in the coffin of Richard’s finding.
According to this age-old script on a tablet found near the great Sphinx by another archaeologist Auguste Mariette in the latter half of the 19th century (1858 to be exact), Richard Vyse might not be wise enough in drawing his conclusions about the dating of the Pyramids in Egypt.
The tablet presented the fact that the statues in the Giza complex date back to the era before that of Khufu.