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Kurt Mendelssohn, The Riddle of the Pyramids (New York: Prager, 1974).

In other words, Works Progress Administration, which provided employment for needy persons on public works projects.

For an account, complete with pictures, of such objects in a noble’s tomb, dating to c. 2000 B.C.E., see H.E. Winlock, Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: From the Tomb of Meket-Re’ at Thebes, Metropolitan Museum of Art series (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1955).

Inasmuch as the pyramids were built so long ago, it is not surprising that their construction dates are much debated by Egyptologists.

Two very popular yet accurate books on the pyramids are lorwerth Edwards, The Pyramids of Egypt (New York: Viking, 1980) and Ahmed Fakhry, The Pyramids (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1969). For more information on various aspects of Egypt’s Old Kingdom period (c. 3000–2200 B.C.E.), see Walter B. Emery, Archaic Egypt (New York: Viking/Penguin, 1961).

The tale is told by Herodotus in his History (Book II, 126).

The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, ed. Robinson, 11 vols. (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1972–1977).

Nag Hammadi Codex 11, tractate 2–7, in The Coptic Gnostic Library Edition, ed. James M. Robinson (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989).

Latin: Gerhard Garitte and Lucien Cerfaux, “Les paraboles du royaume dans l’Evangile de Thomas,” Le Museon 70 (1957), pp. 307–327; German: Johannes Liepoldt, “Ein neues Evangelium? Das kapotische Thomas—evangelium” Theologische Literatur-Zeitung (83) 1958, columns 481–496 French: Jean Doresse, Les livres secrets-des gnostiques d’Egypt, Vol. II, Evangile selon Thomas (Paris Librarie Plon, 1959); Danish: Søren Giversen, Thomas Evangeliet, (Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gads 1959).