Piazzi Smyth Pyramid Plates

Charles Piazzi Smyth
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1877)

The cartouche to the left bears the name of Khufu (Cheops) the builder of the Great Pyramid.

		In 1865 Charles Piazzi Smyth traveled to Egypt to produce accurate measurements of the Great Pyramid . The photographs he took inside the Great Pyramid are amongst the earliest known. The Plates reproduced here are from an original 1877 edition of Smyth's Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid. Plate Index
		Charles Piazzi Smyth was Henrietta Grace Baden-Powell's brother and hence Uncle to B-P. He was well known as an astronomer (he was Astronomer Royal of Scotland), was considered an authority on the pyramids of Giza, and was a pioneer in the field of photography.
		Baden-Powell Family History. A series of links based on the research of Robin Baden Clay, a grandson of Baden-Powell. They are focused on the genealogy of the Powell family. The author is extremely grateful to Mr. Clay for sharing the results of his labors with the Scouting community. Links are provided to pages for three of B-P's brothers: Baden, Warington and Sir George Baden-Powell as well as to the genealogy of the Smyth and Warington families.