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AcknowledgementsI am indebted to the following for permission to reprint copyright material: Peter A. Clayton for generously supplying the photograph on p. 16; Feature Fix for that on pp. 4-5; the Institute of Pyramidology, of 31 Station Road, Harpenden, Herts., for the pictures on pp. 15 and 69, which are taken from Dr Adam Rutherford's Pyramidology (Institute of Pyramidology, 1957 onwards); and the iJniversity of Chicago Press for the map on p. 2, from Ahmed Fakhry's The Pyramids (University of Chicago Press, 1969).The pen-and-ink drawings, along with the photos on pp. 12, 36 and 39, the diagrams on pp. 30 and 187 and the map on p. 224, are taken from the Edgar brothers' The Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers and The Great Pyramid: Its Scientific Features. The diagrams on pp. 24, 60, 98, 127, 128, 203 and 231 are from David Davidson's The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message and The Judgement of the Nations in the Great Pyramid's Prophecy. Those on pp. 88 and 137 are from Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth's Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid. (See bibliography for publishing details.) The aerial photo on p. 21 is of unknown provenance. Any copyright entitlements inadvertently misattributed or omitted will be gratefully acknowledged in future editions.I should like to acknowledge the impartial help of Peter Clayton, Dr I. E. S. Edwards, the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux and especially the late Dr Adam Rutherford, who was a major source of facts, figures and sound general advice. I am also grateful to Michael Mann for 'spotting' the manuscript in the first place, to Pam Price and Frank Ward for reading it, to Simon Franklin, John Moore and Annie Walton for their editorial skills, to Ray Smith for his immaculate artwork - and to all those involved in the book's production for their immense care and patience.P.L.