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In the beginning – Royalty²

The first man who became king of Egypt was Min (page 11). In his time all Egypt except the district of Thebes was a swamp, and none of the regions were then above water which now lie below the lake of Moiris. (page 11) When this Min, who first became king, had made into dry land the part which was dammed off, on the one hand, I say, he founded in it that city which is now called Memphis; for Memphis too is in the narrow part of Egypt; and outside the city he dug round it on the North and West a lake communicating with the river, for the side towards the East is barred by the Nile itself. Then secondly he established in the city the temple of Hephaistos a great work and most worthy of mention. ( page 111 )

In the shadow of the Sphinx, ( The Sphinx is in Memphis ) Thebes' high-priest Ra-Ouer held thirty-six ( 36 ) offices around a court of a Pharaoh in 5000 BC. Prof. Selim Hassan found incense from a serdab of alabaster from his treasure court location. Ozymandias and the name of Khasneh in Sanskrit is where the Pharaohs are believed to have deposited treasures in a rock cut at Petra on the confines of Palestine. Chaldad Pyramid, near the Sphinx in a covered cave (seven or eight cubit arm lengths & three men deep) a corridor leading to a room of treasure. (page 314) Ghizeh Treasure is east of the Sphinz west of a Korn in sifted earth full of jewels..¹

Winged Serpent vs Ibises : There are also about Thebes ( ancient name of Egypt ) sacred serpents, not at all harmful to men, which are small in size and have two horns growing from the top of the head: these they bury when they die in the temple of Zeus, ( Egyptians call Zeus - Amun ) for to this god they say that they are sacred. (page 87) The serpent its form is like that of the water snake; and it has wings not feathered but most nearly resembling the wings of the bat. Let so much suffice as has been said now concerning sacred animals. ( page 89 )

The story goes that at the beginning of spring winged serpents from Arabia fly towards Egypt, and the birds called ibises meet them at the entrance to this country and do not suffer the serpents to go by but kill them. On account of this deed it is (say the Arabians) that the ibis has come to be greatly honored by the Egyptians, and the Egyptians also agree that it is for this reason that they honor these birds. ( page 88 )

Labyrinth Gate Source: Pliny's Natural History mentions four ancient labyrinths: the Cretan labyrinth, a Lemnian labyrinth and an Italian labyrinth and an Egyptian labyrinth. If one should put together and reckon up all the buildings and all the great works produced by Hellenes, they would prove to be inferior in labour and expense to this labyrinth, though it is true that both the temple at Ephesos and that at Samos are works worthy of note. The pyramids also were greater than words can say, and each one of them is equal to many works of the Hellenes, great as they may be; but the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. ( page 175 )

It has twelve courts covered in, with gates facing one another, six upon the North side and six upon the South, joining on one to another, and the same wall surrounds them all outside; and there are in it two kinds of chambers, the one kind below the ground and the other above upon these, three thousand in number, of each kind fifteen hundred. It may well be that the labyrinth described by Herodotus and other ancient writers ( Diodorus, Plato, Pliny, Strabo ) has not been discovered, and lies yet hidden somewhere beneath the desert sands.( page 176 )

Early Stonehenge Theatre? Also at Sais there is the burial-place of him whom I account it not pious to name in connexion with such a matter, which is in the temple of Athene behind the house of the goddess, stretching along the whole wall of it; and in the sacred enclosure stand great obelisks of stone, and near them is a lake adorned with an edging of stone and fairly made in a circle, being in size, as it seemed to me, equal to that which is called the "Round Pool" in Delos. On this lake they perform by night the show of his sufferings, and this the Egyptians call Mysteries. The men of Heliopolis are said to be the most learned in records of the Egyptians.

The authors manage to reveal the core of their faith, keeping to the thesis, and properly achieving the purpose of their book, in describing unknown Egyptian sites - from a different viewpoint. 

1           1 Treasure Hunting – Wilkins – pages 315 and 310.