What Did Noah's Granddaughter Discover in Egypt?

Abraham 1:23-25 has an interesting line of thought. 

"The land of Egypt being first discovered by a woman, who was the daughter of Ham...When this woman discovered the land it was under water, who afterward settled her sons in it...Now the first government of Egypt was established by Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham..." (emphasis added)

What did the granddaughter of Noah "discover?" A fertile river valley? I doubt it. There were better fertile river valley's everywhere. Besides, this one was still under water. So that wouldn't be a draw. Then, what did they discover? ANSWER: She and her clan discovered the monuments of Egypt, built before the flood, that had survived the devastation. That is what they discovered as the flood waters receded off the land.

The Book of Jubilees, chapter 8 further reinforces this concept, in which the details of the way Ham, Shem and Japheth politically divided up the land. Ham received the southern portion, "the land of Ham is hot," in other words Africa. The description of his boundaries includes the explanation of how it "extends towards the west till it reaches the sea of Ma'uk -that (sea) into which everything which is not destroyed descends." In other words, the area where the buildings that were not destroyed by the flood along the Nile River which "descends" into the "sea of Ma'uk" - the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea.

The reason it took several generations for the water to recede is because many of these inland bodies of water where trapped by newly formed mountains and hills. It took some time for them to break through and find their way to the sea. 

How do I know this? Look at Ether 3:6 - "And it came to pass that they did travel in the wilderness, and did build barges, in which they did cross many waters, being directed continually by the hand of the Lord."

The remnants of the former inland seas trapped after the global deluge.

The Brother of Jared and his people traveled mostly by boat from the Mesopotamian area in a northeastern direction and eventually reached the shores of northern China. The "many waters" and "the sea in the wilderness" that they traveled through were the inland seas and lakes still trapped by the topography. 

Fresh-water seals in Lake Baikal

Those waters later receded, leaving remnants in the form of the Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Lake Balqash, Lake Baikal and the many other lakes in central Asia, Russia and Mongolia. 

Lake Baikal and the Caspian Sea still have seals that were trapped and have adapted to the fresh and semi-saline waters. 

Read: The Jaredite Route to the Promised Land

Egypt's waters were finally receding when the daughter of Ham discovered the megalithic structures that survived the devastation of the flood. The most obvious candidates of what they found would be the Sphinx with it's evidence of ancient rain erosion due to the local climate being wetter before the flood.  

Other possibilities are the Valley Temple, the Osireion, the largest Egyptian Pyramids, the foundations of various other pyramids and various highly polished and uniform statues, pottery and stone boxes. Many of these artifacts show clear signs of machine tooling.

It seems odd to me that the greatest pyramids were "built" so early during the first few dynasties when Egypt was still a fledgling empire. There was less wealth and manpower during that time than they could muster during the later dynasties in order to tackle such large projects. 

Sneferu's Bent and Red Pyramids

I believe they didn't build the biggest pyramids. Instead, they were inspired by the existing pyrmids and began to copy their designs. Originally, they built mastabas, then step pyramids. But, their attempts at true pyramids didn't fare too well. And many of these were built on top of the megalithic sub-structures of other pre-flood buildings that, presumably,  didn't survive the flood.

 Sneferu's first pyramid, the Meidum Pyramid and his second attempt, the Bent Pyramid were both failures. Did he finally "get it right" with the  Red Pyramid? Or did he run out of time and simply claim an existing pyramid, the Red Pyramid, as his own. 

Could it be that Khufu also took a page out of Sneferu's playbook and renovated the Great Pyramid then claimed it as his own instead of trying to build his own? Especially after seeing Sneferu's failures at imitation.  

Khafra came along and did the same with the next biggest pyramid. 

This is the only one with intact limestone casing stones. Could the limestone or granite casing stones be the only thing these later pharoahs contributed when they renovated the existing ruined pyramids? Most of these casing stones were removed in ancient and medieval times to construct other buildings, including mosques. 

Casing stones on the Menkaure pyramid.
Are they original?

It is evident that the limestone casings at thet top do not show the level of sophistication that is found in what seems like the only remaining original casing stones near the bottom of the Menkaure pyramid. No one after the flood has been able to figure out how to make the stones fit together so perfectly with a mortarless joint that has no gap. (Read: Why Did the Pre-Flood Civilization Build Megalithic?) 

History now attributes it to these pharaohs because they outright re-wrote history. Re-writing history was a common practice among the Egyptian pharaohs. They often erased people and histories that did not please them. They would also chisel off the name of a previous pharaoh and carve their own cartouche. And they would chronicle only their victories (usually with embellishments) and never mention their failures.

Finally, Menkaure came along and took the last true pyramid that hadn't yet been claimed by a recent pharaoh. If you compare the Valley Temple, Osireion and the Great Pyramids to the other Egyptian temples and tombs, you can see they are obviously different in style and structure. And Egyptologists claim all of these buildings at Giza were built in just 80 years. Hmmm. I think not. It took hundreds of years to build a large European cathedral and those medieval people didn't have to transport multi-ton blocks of granite overland from hundreds of miles away.

Why didn't they continue to build that way or even improve on what they'd learned? I don't buy the accepted Egyptologists' claim that they realized it was a beacon for grave robbers. Almost all of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings were also robbed.

Examples of highly eroded pyramids built between 2500 and 1180 BC that have not stood
the test of time. Why couldn't the Middle and New Kingdoms build like the Old Kingdom
if the Old Kingdom really did build the Great Pyramids? 

The buildings of the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms have the extensive hieroglyphs carved and painted on the walls. The pre-flood buildings have no such adornments and use megalithic building techniques.

The survival of the Pyramids could have also have been the inspiration for the Tower of Babel. They wanted to build a tower with the top as high as the heavens. (Not the often misquoted belief that they could actually climb their own stairs into God's heaven.) The ancients in Mesopotamia must have believed that if they build a bigger structure than the surviving pyramids, then people could survive the next flood. However, the Tower of Babel in Mesopotamia didn't progress much past the first courses of the foundation, but that foundation was immense in size.

It makes you wonder what else survived the flood when you consider the words of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, who lived in the 7th century BC, who said "I read the beautiful clay tablets from Sumer and the Akkadian writing, which is hard to master. I had the joy of reading inscriptions on stone from the time before the flood." Hmm? Did something survive in Mesopotamia, as well? Or is he talking about Egyptian writings?

Finding all of these artifacts that survived the flood would also explain why Egyptian art was so stylized and never changed for thousands of years. It wasn't that the dynastic Egyptians lacked the skills to do more realistic artwork. They made every effort to match the art and architecture of the previous culture they found. And they did it out of reverence. They even included their names in their historical king lists, considering them to be gods and demi-gods.

One more unrelated idea. The above mentioned passage from the book of Abraham gives us a hint as to why the Egyptian dynasties practiced matrilineal succession when most other ancient cultures where patrilineal. Noah's granddaughter set up her son, named Pharaoh, as the first king. That tradition carried on for thousands of years with a new Pharaoh being legitimized by marrying a previous pharaoh's daughter.

Additional information:

Old GIZA Drawings Reveal "ENORMOUS" . . .

Lost Ancient Technology: The Colossal Statues of Ancient Egypt

How I Would Build The Great Pyramids - John Heisz

The Improbable Timeline of the Old Kingdom Mega-Pyramid Builders!

The above video is cued up here to the point where the author points out the mathmatical improbability of Khufu's pyramid being built in the short time that traditional Egyptologists attribute to its construction.