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10th Apr – Perring, Mash and Hill go to Cairo. Vyse comments: “A slanderous paragraph, intended to be inserted in the English newspapers, was this day shown to me, which accused Colonel Campbell of having improperly laid himself under obligations to the Pacha by obtaining the firmaun; and which implied the Colonel and myself intended to make our fortunes under the pretence of scientific researches…” R. W. Howard-Vyse
Originally posted by Scott Creighton
Hi ATS,
In the months of March-May 1837, Colonel Richard William Howard –Vyse blasted his way into a series of hitherto unopened chambers within the Great Pyramid. Within these chambers Howard-Vyse claimed to have found ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, including the name of ‘Khufu’.
Egyptologists, having done no independent scientific verification as to the authenticity of these inscriptions, accept them unreservedly as definitive proof of Khufu’s hand in constructing the Great Pyramid. But just how safe is their acceptance of Howard-Vyse’s testimony? Is there anything that should give them any cause for concern? Consider the following fraud allegations made against Howard-Vyse:
Fraud allegation #1:
In the UK Parliamentary election of 1807, R.W. Howard-Vyse stood as a candidate (in place of his father) in the Honiton constituency. His share of the vote in the constituency was unprecedented, almost 50%. The share of the vote for the third placed candidate was also unprecedented, having plummeted to only 13% from a normal for the third placed candidate of around 28%. As a result of this outcome, the third placed candidate, Mr Philip Staple raised a petition in the UK Parliament accusing R.W. Howard-Vyse of electoral farud. (Note: the petition is written in Old English. Many of the ‘f’ characters should be read as ‘s’).
Given that such a result was never repeated in this constituency it does seem that something untoward occurred in the 1807 election in this constituency and that Mr Staple’s charge against Howard-Vyse should have been upheld by Parliament and Howard-Vyse convicted and jailed for electoral fraud.
Fraud allegation #2:
In volume 1 of his book, ’Operations at Gizeh’, Colonel R. W. Howard-Vyse writes the following:
10th Apr – Perring, Mash and Hill go to Cairo. Vyse comments: “A slanderous paragraph, intended to be inserted in the English newspapers, was this day shown to me, which accused Colonel Campbell of having improperly laid himself under obligations to the Pacha by obtaining the firmaun; and which implied the Colonel and myself intended to make our fortunes under the pretence of scientific researches…” R. W. Howard-Vyse
There is no mention by Howard-Vyse of who made the above accusation or the precise nature of the accusation.
Fraud allegation #3:
In 1954, Mr Walter Allen of Pittsburgh, PA, was researching his family history with his mother. He discovered that his great grandfather, Humphries Brewer, had spent some time in Egypt in 1837, working for Colonel R.W. Howard-Vyse at the Giza Pyramids. From Walter Allen’s notes it seems that his great grandfather fell out with Howard-Vyse and his team as a result of them painting ‘marks’ into the Great Pyramid. Walter Allen’s record of his discussion with his mother of their family history is reproduced below:
Given the number of allegations of fraud made against R.W. Howard-Vyse (three that we know of) and there are suspicions of other fraudulent activity in his investigations of Menkaure’s Pyramid at Giza, is it safe to accept Howard-Vyse on his word that the inscriptions he claims to have found in the so-called ‘Relieving Chambers’ of the Great Pyramid are authentic? Surely, given such serious charges having been made against Howard-Vyse it now becomes essential that consensus Egyptology, rather than simply accepting the word of someone whose integrity has been so obviously questioned so many times, takes action to have the inscriptions in these chambers scientifically tested .
Scott Creighton
edit on 10/5/2013 by Scott Creighton because: Fix typo.
sulaw
reply to post by Scott Creighton
Giving you a bump Scott, great information!!! I want to see where this goes.
Scott Creighton
In 1954, Mr Walter Allen of Pittsburgh, PA, was researching his family history with his mother. He discovered that his great grandfather, Humphries Brewer, had spent some time in Egypt in 1837, working for Colonel R.W. Howard-Vyse at the Giza Pyramids. From Walter Allen’s notes it seems that his great grandfather fell out with Howard-Vyse and his team as a result of them painting ‘marks’ into the Great Pyramid. Walter Allen’s record of his discussion with his mother of their family history is reproduced below:
originally posted by: PerfectAnomoly
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I've been reading further into the actual inscriptions in the chambers above the "Kings" chamber....