Inscription, something written or engraved.
Hieroglyphics, emblems by which words were implied. They were used before the invention of alphabets.
Implied, signified, denoted.
Posterity, succeeding generations, descendants.
Immortalize, to render immortal,—which means never-dying; to perpetuate the memory of anything.
What is a Pyramid?
A solid, massive edifice, rising from a square, triangular, or other base, gradually diminishing in size till it ends in a point at the top. Like the obelisk, pyramids were sometimes erected to preserve the memory of singular events, or to transmit to future ages the glory and magnificence of princes; but oftener as funeral monuments and receptacles for the dead, particularly kings.
Triangular, three-sided, having three angles.
Diminishing, growing smaller.
Receptacle, the place in which a thing is deposited.