Articles in Pyramids
Tortuguero Monument 6 – The Full Story
For a very long time the Mayan doomsday meme revolved around the extraordinary idea that an ancient culture would have a calendar that ended in the distant future. A future we live in…
In recent months archaeologists and the media have spun the attention towards Tortuguero Monument 6, the only piece of evidence that connects Dec 21 2012 with a story. And the story is conveniently vague and half-erased…
For me, the end date in December rules supreme, and the mystery of its origin drives my survival plans. But for those who want to delve into obscure academic aspects of the date, there can be no safer and finer essay than that of Geoff Stray. Please read The Tortuguero Prophecy Unravelled over at Graham Hancock’s site:
This has led to some important new discoveries as Jenkins has just revealed in his The 2012 Story, which is hot off the press. Grofe discovered that …
More Mayan Pyramids in the USA?
It’s not hard to make the link. In the early first century, Mayan civilization was on the decline, and up in the USA earthern mounds were being built – and corn was introduced.
That the structures were not as elaborate suggests that it was only working class Mayans that fled.
Around 200 AD Indians in Florida and Georgia began the construction of enormous earthen pyramids. At the same time corn also arrived in Florida. Corn is a native crop of Mexico and archaeologist William Sears, who first discovered this evidence of corn agriculture in Florida, argued in his book that it must have come from Mexico or Central America.
North Korea / Pyramid Snake in 2012
US Government officials believe North Korea will soon be building its first road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, an easily hidden weapon capable of hitting the United States. While the major concern is that North Korea might target nuclear warheads at the USA sometime in the future, an easier to realise payload could have catastrophic effects – High Altitude Electro-Magnetic Pulse.
Such a device, if nuclear-powered, could affect the electronics of an entire continent. But there are also non-nuclear HEMP devices. Because their explosive materials are much bulkier, they are more likely to be used on a specific target – Wall Street for example, or the downtown of any city. And they wouldn’t be restricted to sending just one. What if they fired one at every major city in the USA, all on the same day? Or what if they targeted nuclear power plants?
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The recent upheavals in Egypt caused research permits to be …
Great Pyramid Closed for 11/11/11
Hard to tell what the real story is… Did the idea of people meditating scare them? Too many crowds? Thwarted terrorist attack? The mind boggles.
Egypt will close the Great Pyramid of Giza later today to avoid any rituals by a group rumoured to have plans to mark the date of 11/11/11 at the site, an official said.
The decision came “after much pressure” from Egyptian Internet users saying strange rituals were going to be held “within the walls of the pyramid on November 11, 2011″, said Atef Abu Zahab, head of the Department of Pharaonic Archaeology.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities confirmed the closure of the tourist site in a statement that only referred to the need for maintenance following a busy period during Muslim holidays.
Bruce Fenton is over there for 11/11/11 and he reported on Facebook that there were soldiers deployed at giza. …
Locked Gates by Howard West
There are a few authors out there who have flown beneath the radar, yet their research is unique, interesting and meaningful in a 2012 way. You could blame self-publishing for their lack of fame, yet this is the modern advancement that has allowed me to discover their work. For example, I have become a fan of these authors:
James Bowles – The Gods, Gemini, and the Great Pyramid
Robert Berringer – Ancient Gods and Their Mysteries
Robert W Felix – Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps
Suhail M Jalbout – The Warning in Stone
Arthur Ryan – Are We Worth Our Salt?
While none of them have completely solved the puzzles (and neither have I), each have possibly provided important keys. These are all men who have shown great insight, and devoted a good portion of their lives to getting those insights out to the world, for little gain.
A new addition to the above list is Howard …
Hawass Fired (again)
He had it good for a very long time. He established himself as the Indiana Jones of Egypt. He had TV shows that screened globally. He dominated and controlled the pyramids and anything else ancient in Egypt. He (seemingly) had alternative authors at his mercy – love me or no access. And he was about to have his own range of clothing:
http://www.artzulu.com/project/zahi-hawass
With all the upheavals in Egypt recently, it has been a tumultuous period for Zahi Hawass. He was arrested, resigned, and re-appointed. Now, seen as part of the Old Guard, he is finally gone for good.
[Zahi Hawass] was fired Sunday after months of pressure from critics who attacked his credibility and accused him of having been too close to the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
Zahi Hawass, long chided as publicity loving and short on scientific knowledge, lost his job along with about a dozen other ministers in a …
NZ Professor – Bent Pyramid Made from Concrete
Professor Ken MacKenzie from the Macdiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in Wellington, has announced the results of a study that included scientists from the UK and USA. Their findings were released last week at a conference in Japan and published in the journal Materials Letters.
State-of-the-art analytical techniques have enabled them to study the nuclear structure of the casing stone of the Bent Pyramid in Dahshour. The results suggest that the casing stones are artificial, cast from minerals found in the surrounding area. The abstract for the paper says:
A comparison was made of the solid-state 29Si, 27Al and 43Ca MAS NMR spectra of the outer casing stone from Snefru’s Bent Pyramid in Dahshour, Egypt, with two quarry limestones from the area. The NMR results suggest that the casing stones consist of limestone grains from the Tura quarry, cemented with an amorphous calcium-silicate …
Sitchen RIP / Beringian Explorers / Djedi Robot
Zecharia Sitchen passed away on October 9th, in New York City, at the age of 90. He wrote a large volume of books on a singular topic, and has many fans, as well as numerous detractors. I’ve gotten a few leads from his work, but he isn’t trustworthy enough to reference I’m afraid. Still, he contributed greatly to promoting awareness of ancient mysteries.
Native Americans (aka Beringians) visited Iceland over 1,000 years ago – they hitched a ride with Norsemen, and DNA proves it.
Meet the Djedi Team who are planning to guide a robot once again up the “air shafts” of the great pyramid.
Chinese Pyramid: Excavation Now
Many tourists in China have seen the terracota warriors and been told that the nearby tree-covered hill is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. Tourists are unaware, and Chinese authorities have refused to admit that the “tomb” is actually one of the largest pyramids in the world. Legend has it that:
“plans for the tomb included flowing rivers of mercury, cross-bow booby traps to thwart would-be plunderers, and replicas of the Emperor’s earthly palaces.”
It reads like a work of extreme fantasy. Sima Qian reports that 700,000 workers were employed to burrow through three rivers, and fill the space with bronze. Then artisans apparently carved a map of the entire Qin kingdom on the floor, laced the ceiling with jewels to represent to sky, and created rivers and oceans with quicksilver – that is, liquid mercury (which was widely believed to have life-preserving powers in Qin times). A special machine was even …
Tunnel Found Beneath Teotihuacan Pyramid
Does this look like a bunker?
As I regularly point out, an oft-neglected feature of pyramids worldwide is potentially related to their true purpose – they have tunnels directly underneath. It is as if the first function of each site was underground rooms reachable by tunnels. Often the pyramids that were subsequently built above occurred in layers. Perhaps they were striving to bury the underground chambers deeper and deeper, to provide further protection from cosmic rays?
In Teotihuacan, the 3rd-biggest pyramid is undergoing an excavation that exposes a tunnel and chambers:
Gómez Chávez explained that the tunnel passes under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, the most important building of the Citadel, “and the entry was located a few meters from the pyramid.
Access is by a vertical shaft of about five meters per side down to a depth of 14 meters from the surface, the entrance leads into a long corridor with an …
Wandering Elders Behind Megaliths?
My proposition is that megaliths and pyramids were typically built under the instruction of “mysterious elders”, who were only temporarily involved with each culture they helped. This, to me, is the most logical explanation for why these construction abilities vanished from every culture that built such structures. A new study confirms the lack of consistent building, in Europe:
Rather than a single “megalithic” culture stretching across Europe, the outburst of mound tombs likely represents an idea reaching local cultures, he suggests, which then “stopped and started” across the centuries.
I do accept that the other possibility is that building megaliths “seemed like a good idea at the time”, but subsequently they failed to achieve what was expected. In the modern era we have plenty of fads, so why not back then as well? But megaliths (and pyramids) are more than just fads, for they have high levels of knowledge and expertise attached …
Great Pyramid Air Shaft: New Robot Exploration in 2010
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 …
Why call it an “ark” instead of boat or ship?
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 …
Andrew Collins Discovers Giza Cave?
It depends on who you ask, as to whether this is a legit discovery, or just an old cave that has been studied previously.
Andrew Collins: Claims to have rediscovered a cave system under the Giza plateau, from studying the writings of Henry Salt from the 19th century. The angle Collins is taking for his new book “Beneath the Pyramids” (published this week) seems to be that the pyramid complex was inspired in some way by the cave system.
Zahi Hawass: “There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We know everything about the plateau,” he stated.
Andrew Collins: “To the best of our knowledge nothing has ever been written or recorded about these caves since Salt’s explorations. If Hawass does have any report related to these caves, we have yet to see it.”
Personally, as much as I am a fan of Andrew Collins, I find it hard to believe that …
Chinese “Tomb” of Emperor Qin Shihuang – A Pyramid
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, …
