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Great Pyramid Air Shaft: New Robot Exploration in 2010

August 16th, 2010 by Robert Bast | 1 Comment | Filed in Pyramids

Dr. Zahi Hawass is not known for his speed. Even when extraordinary finds are potentially right there to discover, it can take decades, if at all, to get to the truth.

The first robot to explore one of the “air shafts” of the Queen’s Chamber was back in 1992, and it discovered a mysterious door. After a decade of waiting, a second mission was undertaken in 2002, and this time the robot had a drill. The new, surprising discovery was that just 20 centimetres beyond the first door was a second door.

Now a team from Leeds University will have a robot up there before the end of 2010. The goal is to keep drilling and looking until they get to the end of the both shafts (the other shaft in the Queen’s Chamber also has a door near the end).

When they make a TV special of the exploration, don’t think for a moment that we will really be alongside Hawass seeing beyond the second door for the first time. There’s every possibility that they will not share their discovery, depending on what, if anything, is found. More at The Independent.

Great Pyramid Air Shaft: New Robot Exploration in 2010

Why call it an “ark” instead of boat or ship?

July 13th, 2010 by Robert Bast | 2 Comments | Filed in Bunkers, Pyramids

It’s the sort of question a 5-year-old asks, and she might be told that an ark is a special type of boat. We are so used to thinking we know all about Noah’s Ark that we automatically accept that it was a sailing vessel, despite the meaning of the word:

Ark: The word “ark” (הבת) probably comes from the Egyptian load word tbt which means “box” or “chest.”
http://www.bibleandscience.com/bible/books/genesis/flood.htm

This is strange terminology for a boat or ship, and would only serve to confuse. Even more confusing, the other major use of the word ark in the Bible is regarding the Ark of the Covenant – this is not known as a boat.

When we look at the two most substantial pre-Biblical texts that tell the story of Noah, there are also indications that the original story did not concern a boat.

In the Epic of Gilgamesh the ark was described as being 120 cubits long, 120 cubits wide & 120 cubits high. If it is a regular shape, then that would make it a cube. Cubes do not make good boat shapes, and I’d say it would have great difficulty staying upright. What else could have a square base and great height? Perhaps a pyramid or ziggurat?

Concerning the relation between Ark and ziqqurat, Lehmann Haupt concluded that the ziqqurats represented ships turned upside down and were a reminder of “the vessel that brought the Sumerian invaders to the northern shore of the Persian Gulf.”

Interestingly, even though the flood destroyed everything, Gilgamesh also says:

When a seventh day arrived I sent forth a dove and released it.

The dove went off, but came back to me; no perch was visible so it circled back to me.

I sent forth a swallow and released it. The swallow went off, but came back to me;

no perch was visible so it circled back to me.

I sent forth a raven and released it. The raven went off, and saw the waters slither back.

It eats, it scratches, it bobs, but does not circle back to me.

Then I sent out everything in all directions and sacrificed (a sheep).

I offered incense in front of the mountain-ziggurat.

Either there was a ziggurat high in the mountains, where the ark ended its journey, or the ark is a ziggurat (in which case it never went anywhere).

The third text is Avesta that tells the Noah’s ark story according to the Zoroastrians. It could be the earliest version of the story, and one strong factor leads me to believe it is. God did not cover the mountains with water (which is physically impossible), but instead created a mini-Ice Age. And consequently, there was no boat mentioned – they survived in an underground village.

Bible: Wooden box
Gilgamesh: Cube or irregular shape, sounds very much like a pyramid/ziggurat
Avesta: Underground village

They are the key descriptions we have of the ark. Where the stories mention implausible floods, and floating/alighting, I would consider these to be embellishments. My suggestion is that a cataclysm caused a mini-Ice Age and a tsunami circa 3000BC – perhaps an asteroid collision, or an earthquake/volcano combo. The best way to survive these events would be either underground (like a bunker) or in a mad-made mountain (like a pyramid).

Perhaps in Iran (home of the Zoroastrians), one can find a location that has both underground villages and ziggurats? Perhaps royalty sheltered in the ziggurat, and their subjects were underground?

Stay tuned

Tags: avesta, Iran, zoroastrians

Chinese "Tomb" of Emperor Qin Shihuang – A Pyramid

July 20th, 2009 by Rob | No Comments | Filed in Pyramids, china

In Science magazine, (Vol 325, pages 22-23), I was amazed to read what is perhaps the most mundane description of a pyramid ever:

Soon after Qin took power, he began preparing for the afterlife. Construction of his mausoleum at Mount Li, 35 kilometers east of Xi’an, took 38 years. The mausoleum, once crowned with pavilions, was never a secret, and even today it is visible as a kilometer-long wooded mound that rises a gentle 75 meters above the surrounding land.

And here is the mausoleum that gently rises 75 meters:

The above image is from the People’s Daily Online. It is a refreshing change from the hill we usually see:

That the Chinese pyramids are in fact pyramids has been very under-investigated. Pyramids in Egypt and Americas have been argued to be a coincidence. How many more do we need before orthodox archaeologists consider that a common culture created them all?

Samoa, Indonesia, Central America, Egypt, China, Bosnia, Chile… can’t be a coincidence!

Obama Visits Egyptian Pyramids

July 11th, 2009 by Rob | No Comments | Filed in Pyramids, obama

There has been plenty of discussion at the 2012 Forum regarding Obama not being all that he seems – more of a charismatic puppet for the Illuminati et al, less of a socialist hero.

Consequently I find it interesting that he has paid a visit to the Giza pyramids. It could just be that he figured he’d take a look around while he was there. Or does he have a deeper interest, one that may be a factor in 2012? Pure speculation of course.

The visit followed Obama’s speech to the Islamic world from Cairo University. Zawi Hawass said:

“This is the longest official visit to the pyramids, at around 75 minutes. Almost every official visiting Cairo travels to the pyramids, which rise up from the desert outside the Egyptian capital.

Pyramids Made From Concrete

May 3rd, 2008 by Rob | 1 Comment | Filed in Pyramids, concrete

I’m a partial fan of this idea, because it is such a simple solution that anyone can understand. A new set of researchers are backing the idea the Giza pyramids are made from concrete:

A handful of determined materials scientists are carrying out experiments with crushed limestone and natural binding chemicals – stuff that would have been readily available to ancient Egyptians – designed to show that blocks on the upper reaches of the pyramids may have been cast in place from a slurry poured into wooden moulds.

Unanswered are questions like the quarries where the blocks were cut from… why they made such big blocks… how all the other pyramids on Earth were made… The story is also told at the Boston Globe.

Giza Pyramids Mimic Cygnus, Not Orion?

February 16th, 2008 by Rob | No Comments | Filed in Pyramids, cygnus, giza, orion

Dr. Greg Little sums things up nicely:

…in a 2006 and 2007 book, The Cygnus Mystery, science writer Andrew Collins showed how the three crossbar stars of the northern constellation of Cygnus actually fit the three pyramids better than Orion’s Belt. In fact, the fitting of Cygnus onto the three pyramids doesn’t require turning either the sky or the world upside down (as the Orion idea requires), and Cygnus is a near-perfect match with the pyramids. Collins has also shown that key stars of Cygnus were actually visible above the three large pyramids when viewed from the southeast from the sacred mound of Gebel Ghibli. If the Cygnus alignment had been proposed before the Orion idea, the Cygnus alignment at Giza would have been the accepted one.

I’m sold.

Furthermore, there is a theory that the little pyramids indicate Orion, and its relative change in position from ancient times to the near future:

…where the three stars of Orion’s Belt were starting in 10,550 BC, known as The First Time. This alignment is to the southwest. The precession wheel cycle ends in AD 2400 when Orion’s Belt will be in the East, mimicked by the three small pyramids off the Great Pyramid.

Tonga: Megaliths in the Birthplace of Polynesia

February 4th, 2008 by Rob | No Comments | Filed in Pyramids, megaliths, tonga

Simon Fraser University’s David Burley says his latest finds from the Nukuleka archeological site on one of Tonga’s southern islands shows it was the principal “founding settlement” of Polynesia about 2,800 years ago, and endured long enough for a genetically and culturally distinctive people to evolve and begin spreading across the immense “Polynesian triangle” bounded by Hawaii in the north, New Zealand in the southwest and fabled Easter Island in the far southeast, not far from the coast of South America.

So you’d expect Tonga to have a pyramid or ancient structures of some type. Like Tonga-Tabu, 2 pillars 4.88 meters high, weighing approx. 50 tons, supporting a 5.79 meter lintel: