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tonehenge in North America? At leasttwo professors are claiming that they

have found what could be such a thing.One is pointing to the fields of Alberta inCanada and the other is looking beneaththe waters of Lake Michigan.

In Alberta, Gordon Freeman, a retiredprofessor from the University of Alberta,has written a book called Canada’s Stone-henge in which he argues that “Geniusexisted on the prairies 5,000 years ago.”On a series of low hills overlooking theBow River about 50 miles east of Calgary,he has investigated a large pattern ofboulders for their astronomical align-ments. His discovery is that the centralcairn is surrounded by 28 radiating stonelines, four of which align with the car-dinal points of the compass. Freeman hasbeen able to show that, among otherthings, the site marks the equinoxes andprecisely measures the lunar cycle.

Meanwhile at the department of un-derwater archaeology at NorthwesternMichigan University College, professorMark Holley, using side scan sonar, hasdiscovered a series of standing stones onthe floor of Lake Michigan, 40 feet belowthe surface, with some arranged in acircle. One appears to show carvings of amastodon. The spot would have beenbelow the surface for about 10,000 years.

Like Nabta Playa in Africa, such dis-coveries appear to be part of a pattern ofincreasing recognition of ancient align-ments and the emergence of long-lostknowledge from times generally believedto be entirely primitive. Some see it as asign of a modern reawakening.

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he ongoing attempt by academic archae-ology to reconcile the growing gaps in

its prevailing theory of history could be be-coming something of a bridge too far. At themoment, dramatic discoveries at an out-of-the-way Turkish dig near Urfa a few milesnorth of the Syrian border, known asGöbekli Tepe, are readily acknowledged to bea “challenge to conventional history,” butthat characterization could well prove to bea major understatement.

Carbon dated at twelve-thousand yearsold, Göbekli Tepe offers incontrovertible evi-dence of advanced human activity at a timewhen our ancestors are said to have beenstill at the hunter-gatherer stage—thousands of years earlier than we have beentold was possible. Profusely and skillfullydecorated with carvings of animals and ab-stract pictograms are numerous T-Shapedlimestone monoliths, some almost 10 feettall and weighing as much as 25 tons, stillstanding about the vast and sophisticatedsite on Roman-like terrazzo floors.

First discovered in 1964, the significanceof Göbekli Tepe was not recognized until1994 when German archaeologist KlausSchmidt began to excavate. To this point, weare told, the investigation of the massive sitehas barely begun and that doubtless manyamazing discoveries remain. Already,though, it is possible to see strains in themainstream theoretical fabric, which mayhelp to account for the relatively modestpublicity thus far accorded the discoveries.Schmidt still insists that the site, which hebelieves was the world’s first temple, wasbuilt by hunter-gathers though he acknowl-edges that the construction would have re-quired the systematic effort of at least hun-dreds of workers over a span of years.Orthodoxy just does not entertain the notionthat civilization or even agrarian societiescould have existed that far back in time, so,there is no alternative, the constructionmust have been by hunter-gatherers. If so,though, Göbekli Tepe falls outside any defi-nition of hunter-gatherer currently extant.

T In the mid 1990s when maverick Egyptol-ogist John Anthony West and Boston Univer-sity Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch announcedthat water weathering proved the GreatSphinx of Egypt was thousands of years olderthan traditionally believed, they were greetedwith howls of outrage from the Egyptolog-ical establishment. And despite evidencewidely accepted by professional geologists,the establishment archaeologists have con-tinued to deny the possibility of the Sphinx’sgreater antiquity. “Where,” they ask, “is thecontext?” In other words, what civilizationwas up and running during that time andcould have done it? Where are the artifacts?In the years since, West and Schoch have la-bored mightily to show that there is, indeed,plenty of evidence in Egypt itself for such an-cient advancement. Other possibly corrobo-rating material has also been turned up atunderwater sites around the world. InGöbekli Tepe, though, could be the kind ofsmoking gun evidence for antediluvian (pre-flood or pre- end of the ice age) civilizationthat many alternative theorists have believedwas there and which the establishment haspersistently and emphatically denied.

Schoch has long mentioned the site inhis presentations on Sphinx dating. “GöbekliTepe is from the same period, or even ear-lier, than what we have at Giza.” he told At-lantis Rising, “Plus, it is incredibly sophisti-cated. I do not understand why it has notgotten more publicity. Perhaps because it isso anomalous and just does not fit the con-ventional paradigm. It sure seems to supportwhat some of us have been arguing for dec-ades.”

Interestingly, one of the important dis-coveries at Göbekli Tepe is the carved figureof a half-human/half-lion creature—in otherwords, a sphinx.

Could this have been the original inspira-tion for Egypt’s Great Sphinx? Or, perhapsmore importantly, what was the earliersource of the figure at Göbekli Tepe? So far,we have no answers, but maybe soon thatwill change.

PROOF OFANTEDILUVIANCIVILIZATION?

Is GöbekliTepe the

Smoking Gun?


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Smoking Gun?


Is GöbekliTepe the

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Smoking Gun?

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Sonar Imagebeneath Lake

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One of GöbekliTepe’s many

giant T-shapedobelisks

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Intelligent Alien Worlds Galorehe odds that you may have an alienneighbor some day are greater that you

may have thought, and we don’t mean fromUzbekistan. According to scientists at theUniversity of Edinburgh, nearly 40,000planets in the Milky Way could support alienlife at least as intelligent as we are.

The researchers created a programwhich organized all the data we have on ap-proximately 330 known planets and calcu-lated the percentage that might have condi-tions suitable for life. Taken into accountwere such things as the availability of water

T and minerals. Once that was determined, anextrapolation was made for the galaxy. Theresult: up to 37,964 life-supporting worlds.According to astrophysicist Duncan Forgan,this is not about one-celled organisms to bestudied through a microscope but about spe-cies on the human level.

Forgan thinks we are still about 300 to400 years away from contact, a view whichwill come as something of a surprise to thosewho believe ETs have been, not only visitingthis planet regularly, but participating in ourpolitics for years.

ust when we thought we knew about thecomet threat from space, it turns out that

most of it may be invisible. According to aFebruary report from NewScientist.com thebig threat to Earth may come from ‘Dark’comets, virtually unseen and undetected byus.

Of the 3000 comets which have enteredthe solar system, the whereabouts of onlyabout 25 are known. Astronomers Bill Napierin the U.K. and David Asher in Northern Ire-land say they think that is because when the

J ice and gases have burned away, the under-lying crust reflects only a fraction of the lightand that makes them hard to see.

When the comet IRAS-Araki-Alcockpassed Earth in 1983 at only 3 millionmiles—the closest in 200 years—it was de-tected only two weeks before it passed be-cause most of its gases were gone and thesurface was extremely dark.

Scientists with the international spaceumbrella project known as Spaceguard havemixed views on the danger.

Dark Comet Threat Warning


Infrared image of the cometIRAS-Araki-Alcock (Caltech)

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REPORT FROM THE FRONTTracking the News of the Coming Energy Revolution

BYJEANE

MANNING

day the water in a natural stream whirls anddraws in air every time it runs into a pro-truding rock or polished stone.

Viktor was particularly observant of thebreathing and spiraling of water. He recog-nized a basic form of movement in natureand aimed to imitate that inward-spinningmovement in technical devices. His goal wasto reproduce environmentally-friendly en-ergy conversion. For example, he developedrevolutionary propulsion units whereby air-planes wouldn’t be pushed forward by ex-ploding fuel but instead would be drawn for-ward by suction created by vortex-basedtechnologies. This alternative to a propellerfor propulsion would make a “biologicalvacuum” in front of airplanes into whichthey are sucked—just as the trout in a nat-ural wild river is sucked upstream and over awaterfall through an invisible vortex in thestream.

As a young man Schauberger was respon-sible for a huge forest in a remote moun-tainous district. This gave him a front rowseat for observing nature’s processes in apristine interconnected ecosystem. For yearshe hiked through hills that were then un-touched by human interference, and what hesaw there shaped his later life’s work. For in-stance, watching the trout in mountainbrooks taught him that the fish not onlyswim with a downhill stream, they deal withwater that can flow in opposite directions atthe same time. He also understood the bigpicture, such as the full water cycle betweenatmosphere and the ground, and the role ofthe forests.

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scholars who considered themselves at thepinnacle of expertise concerning water andhydraulic engineering. His first feat was toshow how an unusual flume could carry logsdown a mountainside and to a stream on itsway to the Danube River. His logging flumesmeandered downhill to the valley in a waythat imitated a wriggling snake, and they in-cluded regular injections of cold water so thelogs would ride high and not get hung up oncorners. Further structures along the wayswirled the water within the chute. When heregulated the forward-moving vortex of thewater and its temperature in a certain way,his inventions created an anomaly—thewater starts to pull and no longer relies onbeing pushed. This happened in his spiralpipes as well as his logging flume, and is akey concept in his energy generators.

Throughout his life, the strong-mindednaturalist counseled his family to free theirminds from the limits of what’s explained inbooks, and instead “think in the opposite di-rection.” He told his son Walter that in orderfor it to turn out right, technology should be180 degrees different from the direction itwas taking.

Although textbooks insisted that we can’tget propulsion effects from using the heat inour surroundings, Viktor said otherwise. Inthe interviews filmed in Austria, Germanjournalist Gottfried Hilscher points out that“if a tornado was a machine then it wouldnot work.” Nature, however, does its creativework through implosion instead of explo-sion—movement directed inward, not out-ward. Viktor Schauberger urged us to com-prehend nature and then copy nature in ourtechnologies.

He did copy nature, and the results in-cluded antigravity effects, a “suction tur-bine,” spiral pipes and water vitalizing ma-chines, a very unusual home powergenerator and agricultural tools that don’t doharm to the skin of our earth.

The spiraling “bioplow” for example looksnothing like ordinary plows that farmers use.Schauberger’s plow turns soil inward cen-tripetally, not outward. To design it hecopied the ways of a tiny rodent, the mole,which moves through soil without resistancejust like a shark with its particular skin canmove through water with hardly any resis-tance. Schauberger’s backwards-turningplow turns the soil twice and thus leaves mi-croorganisms in the soil where they belong.He used copper instead of iron to make toolssuch as a garden shovel. His understandingof earthy topics such as trace minerals, dia-magnetism, magnetism and life-force in thesoils will be urgently needed if local food

iktor Schauberger is on my mind thisweek. Why thoughts of a long-deceased

forester/inventor from faraway Austria? There are several reasons. • This month’s New Energy Movement

Canada event—the tenth in their series ofspeakers in Vancouver (www.newenergymovement.ca)—was titled “Schauberger’sLegacy.”

• I received a new DVD from Austria onthe same topic.

• And we’re seeing the partial breakdownof an industrialized society that chose the“breakdown” type of technologies. Schau-berger predicted such societal disorder iftwentieth century technological develop-ments continued to go in the explosion-based direction (exploding the atom andburning fuel). However, he also pointed theway toward technologies that can help re-generate our world instead of destroy it.

To put it briefly, today our society and ec-osystems need to be regenerated; but ifSchauberger’s warnings had been heeded, itwould be a different world scene today.People who do everything in harmony withnature are more likely to be in harmony withthemselves and each other.

Schauberger’s understanding of regener-ative implosion-based technologies versustoday’s explosion-based energy technology ismore complex than that brief statement, butwe have to start somewhere in drawing at-tention to his wisdom. A good start would beto encourage purchase of the new DVD pro-duced for the Pythagoras-Kepler School(PKS) in Bad Ischl, Austria. You can find itin the Atlantis Rising catalog. There are alsoexcellent books on Schauberger by the Aus-tralian architect Callum Coats and by AlickBartholomew in Britain. BreakthroughPower, co-authored by Joel Garbon and me,has a chapter titled “Living Energy” onSchauberger’s story and his concepts(www.breakthroughpower.net).

Viktor’s grandson Jorge Schauberger isshown in the new DVD, retracing his grand-father’s footsteps.

Viktor Schauberger was born in 1885.For generations before him, the Schauber-gers were a family of foresters with a keeneye on the environment. For instance, theynoticed what happens in a babbling moun-tain stream when trees and bushes on itsbanks naturally keep it cooled to four de-grees Celsius. Such water is at its most “po-tent”—able to carry weight such as logs orsediment—in full moonlight. And night or

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• BY MICHAEL SALLA, Ph.D.ewly confirmed Secretary of State,Hillary Clinton, has long had an in-terest in UFOs and the existence ofextraterrestrial life. She was given

an informal briefing in August 1995 by bil-lionaire philanthropist, Laurence Rocke-feller, on the best available UFO evidence.

An August 4, 1995, memo by PresidentClinton’s Science Advisor, Dr Jack Gibbons,confirmed that the Clintons would be vaca-tioning with Rockefeller at his Teton Ranchin Wyoming that summer, and they woulddiscuss UFOs: “You will probably see MrRockefeller on your vacation in the Tetons.He will want to talk with you about his in-terest in extrasensory perception, para-normal phenomenon, and UFOs.”

In the memo, Gibbons then attempted todissuade the Clintons from pursuing Rocke-feller’s agenda to disclose national securityfiles concerning UFOs: “He knows that weare trying to be helpful in responding to hisconcerns about UFOs and human potential… but I’ve made no secret about my convic-tion that we must not be too diverted frommore earthly imperatives.”

Both Clintons were involved in numerousattempts to force the release of national se-curity files concerning UFOs. According toGrant Cameron, founder of the PresidentialUFO website, the “Clintons tried to get UFOdocuments released as part of PresidentClinton’s 1995 Executive Order 12958.” Ex-ecutive Order 12958 was similar to PresidentObama’s recent January 21 PresidentialMemo on “Transparency and Open Govern-ment,” where he instructed governmentagencies and departments to relax rules gov-erning the release of national security files.

Cameron has made numerous FOIA re-quests on Clinton administration files andfound “that there are literally thousands ofpages of UFO files.” He concluded that this is“clear evidence of an administration that wasactive but unsuccessful on the UFO front.”

Hillary Clinton’s subsequent public state-ments concerning UFOs and alien life showthat she was greatly concerned with the neg-ative stereotypes created by Hollywood con-cerning extraterrestrials. January 25, 1999,at the White House Fifth Millennium Eve-ning, she said: “Most of the movies about thefuture show aliens descending from outerspace determined to blow up the world, andsomehow they always begin or end withWashington, D.C.” Later that same year onJune 17, in Paris, she explicitly questionedthe rationale behind such movies: “... oftenin these movies, for reasons that I question,we have space aliens who are always blowingup Washington, D.C., and the White House.”

Most revealing is a recent comment shemade during the recent presidential cam-paign on December 17, 2007:

“Remember that movie IndependenceDay, where invaders were coming from

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outer space and the whole world was unitedagainst the invasion? Why can't we be unitedon behalf of our planet? And that's what Iwant to do.”

Clinton’s criticisms of Hollywood stereo-types of invading aliens alludes to her disap-proval of secret national security policiesconcerning UFO evidence and ‘future’ rela-tions with extraterrestrial life.

Clinton’s public statements and sustainedinterest in UFOs suggest that, if given theopportunity, she intends to create a very dif-ferent national security policy concerningextraterrestrial life. As Secretary of State,Clinton will stress ‘galactic’ diplomacy over‘future’ military confrontation with extrater-restrial life. That may represent a departurefrom national security policies that havebeen secretly developed and implementedover six decades of the UFO phenomenon.

Also prominent in President Obama’sinner circle is John Podesta. The co-chair toPresident Obama’s transition team, Podesta

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played a key role in selecting personnel forPresidential appointments. His influence wasmost clearly displayed in the Executive Or-ders and Presidential Memoranda onObama’s first full day of office on January 21promoting Transparency and Open Govern-ment. Transparency and Open Governmentwere signature issues for Podesta during histime in the Clinton administration when hepushed aggressively for Executive Order12958.

EO 12958 prescribed “a uniform systemfor classifying, safeguarding, and declassi-fying national security information” thatwould reflect a greater “commitment toOpen Government.” EO 12958 was viewed asan essential tool in ensuring the release ofmany national security files that had beenunnecessarily classified for decades. After thepassage of EO 12958, Podesta served on theCommission on Protecting and ReducingGovernment Secrecy, chaired by Sen. Daniel

Will the IncomingAdministrationBring an End toUFO Secrecy?

Hillary Clinton andJohn Podesta are amongthose who have favored

public disclosure



• BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D.id Christianity spring onto the scene two millenniaago as a divine revelation that came directly fromthe one true God, as to this day some of its morefundamentalist adherents contend? Was there a

real individual, a historical person, a genuine JesusChrist—a preacher and, according to his followers, atheurgist and wonder-worker—who was crucified in Je-rusalem? Was such a man the Messiah for whom manyJews longed?

I would venture to guess that most people who callthemselves Christians today (there are estimated to beover two billion throughout the world, making it thesingle largest religion, although divided amongthousands of sects), as well as many of other faiths,do not doubt that a historical Jesus walked onEarth. Of course many might doubt his reputedbirth from a virgin, question his working of mira-cles (such as turning water into wine or raisingthe dead), and deny his resurrection after sup-posedly being dead for several days, but theystill accept that there was a real Jesus. Indeed,there is a small industry that revolves aroundpresumably identifying and tracking the his-torical Jesus. There are those who contendhe survived being nailed to the cross. An-other idea popular in some circles is thatJesus sired a bloodline by his wife (usuallyconsidered to be Mary Magdalene), whichsome claim can be traced historicallythrough various Dark Age and Medievallineages, such as through the Merovin-gian royal family in Europe (ruling inparts of modern France and Ger-many). Others would trace Jesus andhis bloodline in the opposite geo-graphic direction, such as toKashmir, Tibet, or India. Stillothers attempt to identify Jesusand members of his immediatefamily based on the physical evi-dence of tombs and ossuaries(bone boxes) from first centuryJerusalem. No matter whichapproach is taken, the pointhere is that it is assumedthere is an historical manbehind the myth of Christ.

On the other extremeare people like D. M. Mur-dock (also known asAcharya S., the pseu-donym she used for herearlier works) whodeny completely thatthere is any historicalbasis for the Jesus ofChristianity. Mur-dock (in suchbooks as: Acharya

The Baptism ofJesus, Leonardo

da Vinci

S., 1999, The Christ Conspiracy. Adventures UnlimitedPress, Kempton, Illinois. Acharya S., 2004, Suns ofGod. Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois.See also her website http://truthbeknown.com forother works by her), builds on the research of suchscholars as Gerald Massey (1828-1907) and Egyptol-ogist E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) who point outthe many similarities between the ancient Egyp-tian religion and Christianity (which is not to saythese earlier scholars held Murdock’s extremeviews). Murdock argues that the Jesus of thegospels, ostensibly the founder and lynchpin ofChristianity, never actually existed. He was acreation of those who “invented” the cult thatwas to become Christianity. Forget about ar-guing whether Jesus was the result of agod’s (presumably the one true God) mirac-ulously inseminating a virgin (thoughMary was betrothed to Joseph at the time),or if he performed miracles and preachedthe truth, much less ponder the conceptthat he was killed and resurrected onthe third day. This is all nonsense—oris it?

Ironically, it may seem to some,whether or not Jesus ever existed asa real person, the story of his life isrich in meaning and fits into abigger and deeper picture thanmany professed Christians dareimagine. Whatever the reality ornon-reality of a historicalJesus—total fabrication or ob-scure rabble-rouser and anti-Roman independence fighterupon whose personage manymyths were grafted—Christianity as such, inter-preted in hindsight, arosein the broader context ofthe Roman Empire from asyncretism of near-Eastern beliefs, incorpo-rating especially Helle-nistic, Egyptian, andJudaic elements,during the period ofthe Flavian, adoptive,and Antonine em-perors of the latefirst and secondcenturies of theCommon Era

Is Christianity Basedon Historical Facts orAncient Mystery Traditions?

The Mythical JesusThe Mythical JesusThe Mythical JesusThe Mythical JesusThe Mythical Jesus

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n the 1960s, astronomer Halton Arp dis-covered that galaxies are “born” andgrow into family groups. In some cases,he could trace their genealogy through

as many as four generations. This is the kindof discovery that every astronomer dreams ofmaking. It promises to improve our under-standing of the universe as much as Galileo’sdiscoveries improved our understanding ofthe solar system. Arp’s observations shouldhave been celebrated and promoted. Instead,as with Galileo, his work has been rejectedand ridiculed by the astronomical establish-ment.

In his review of Arp’s book, Quasars, Red-shifts and Controversies. astronomer Geof-frey Burbidge described what happened toArp after this discovery: “Arp’s ranking in the‘Association of Astronomy Professionals’plunged from within the first 20 to below200. As he continued to claim that not allgalaxy redshifts were due to the expansion ofthe universe, his ranking dropped further.

“[In the mid 1980s] came the final blow:his whole field of research was deemed unac-ceptable by the telescope-allocation com-mittee in Pasadena. Both directors (of Mount

Wilson and Las Campanas, and Palomar ob-servatories) endorsed the censure. Since Arprefused to work in a more conventional field,he was given no more telescope time. Afterabortive appeals all the way up to the trus-tees of the Carnegie Institution, he tookearly retirement and moved to West Ger-many.”

What makes this discovery so important?Why was Halton Arp willing to sacrifice apromising career in astronomy in defense ofit?

First, the why: Arp is one of those pio-neers whose motivation is discovering howthe universe works. He wants to follow thetrail of this mystery until it is solved. This ismore important to him than his reputationas an astronomer. Is it worth the sacrifice?Arp’s wife, also an astronomer, put it thisway: “If you are wrong, it doesn’t make anydifference; if you are right, it is enormouslyimportant.”

Second, the what: Arp discovered a majorflaw in one of the tools of modern cos-mology. This tool, the redshift, is believed tobe a Doppler shift—a measure of velocityand nothing else. Arp has proven that a largecomponent of the redshift is intrinsic (aproperty of the galaxy or quasar itself), not

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The Perilous Journeyof PioneeringAstronomerHalton Arp

due to velocity. In order to understand whyan intrinsic redshift is such a threat to main-stream astronomers, we need to review thecurrently accepted theories of cosmology.

A Chain of Cosmological TheoriesFrom the viewpoint of modern cos-

mology, there was only one event. Twelve orfifteen billion years ago, the granddaddy ofall black holes exploded, creating the uni-verse. Everything that has happened since isfallout, aftershocks and shrapnel. The uni-verse was given one initial burst of energy,and it has been winding down ever since. Butthe Big Bang isn’t something we can seethrough a telescope. The Big Bang is atheory.

In fact, the Big Bang is part of a chain oftheories. Each theory is linked to the theorynext in line. The Big Bang was invented toexplain how the Expanding Universe startedexpanding. The Expanding Universe was in-vented to answer the question, “Why are thegalaxies all moving away from each other?”The movement of galaxies is an outgrowth ofthe Doppler interpretation of redshift, whichassumes redshift is due to movement of thelight source away from the observer. Redshift

Interactinggalaxies

noted by Arp

• BY AMY ACHESON

HaltonArp


The Secret Catacombs of Mummieson the Little Colorado

In the small town museum of Springer-ville, Colorado, I came across several intri-guing newspaper clippings, including one ofparticular interest from the Los Angeles

Times-Washington Post news service. It de-scribes how the archaeologist John Hoh-

mann, now closely associated with theCasa Malpais site, had rappelled

down a rope into a fissure of ba-salt in July of 1990 and had dis-covered an intricate series ofpassages and rooms that had

been modified by the mysterious“Mogollon culture” into under-

ground tombs for the internment of

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id an Egyptian navy cross the Pa-cific or Atlantic and come to Ari-zona? Could they have left anEgyptian tomb in the Grand

Canyon, something similar to those foundin the Valley of Kings near Luxor, Egypt?Strangely, an article published on thefront page of the Phoenix Gazetteon April 5,1909, claimed that justsuch an Egyptian rock-cut cavewas found.

While many mummies havebeen discovered in Egypt, veryfew were in pyramids—and thosethat were have been dated from thelater historical periods. The older pyra-mids dating from the early dynasties (or be-fore!) show no signs of funerary use. Mum-mies in Egypt are most often found in rock-cut tombs in desert canyons, often featuringtunnels going deep underground with var-ious rooms and passageways along the way.Multiple mummies are often found in onetomb, and the crypts of the wealthy and roy-alty were filled with precious items and eve-ryday necessities to ease the dead person’scontinued existence in the afterlife.

According to the Phoenix Gazette story,a necropolis of mummies and artifacts sim-ilar to an Egyptian tomb was found in theGrand Canyon. An explorer named G. E.Kinkaid, it was reported, uncovered a seriesof catacombs complete with statues, swords,vessels, and mummies in 1908 (the exactdate of the discovery is not given). As weshall see, Kinkaid may not have been thefirst explorer to have seen this “cave.” Theaccount of Kinkaid’s adventure was repro-duced as a chapter entitled “Citadel of theGrand Canyon” in Joseph Miller’s 1962 bookArizona Cavalcade.

The Phoenix Gazette article starts withfour headlines and then continues through amost amazing account. (See the quotes pro-vided on the opposite page).

So what became of the artifacts describedin the article? What became of Jordan? Didhe return to the Smithsonian in WashingtonD.C. and disappear with all the records of hisdiscovery? Has there been some archaeolog-ical cover-up reminiscent of the last scenein the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, wherethe Ark of the Covenant is placed inside acrate in a giant warehouse never to be seenagain?

It has also been suggested that while thediscovery perhaps was real, the archaeolo-gists working for the Smithsonian were not.These men may not have been working forthe Smithsonian Institution out of Wash-ington D.C. at all, but merely claiming to doso. Could this have been a cover-up for an il-legal archaeological dig that was raiding theancient site and claiming legitimacy from avery distant institution. It would have beenvery difficult indeed, in 1909, to check onthe credentials of the archaeologists.

D• BY DAVID H. CHILDRESS the dead. The remains of these people were

apparently mummified, possibly naturally bythe dry climate.

This curious discovery made nationalnews in the early 1990s, but otherwise hasbeen largely forgotten. The catacombs insidethe Casa Malpais are described as a burialground for hundreds of skeletons. However,nowhere in the article does it say that thedead are “mummies.” But were they? Normalmummification includes the removal of in-ternal organs and the preservation of theskin and hair. Though we are given few de-tails about these human remains, it wouldseem that they are mummies, rather thanbare-bones skeletons.

It would not be unusual if the Casa

According to the Old Testament, the donkey of the Prophet Balaam could not only see anangel which Balaam could not, but could talk as well. (Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1626)

Is a Century-OldNewspaper Story toBe Believed?



Malpais remains were mummies. Rather, itwould be unusual if they weren’t. Mummi-fied remains have been found at Mesa Verdein Colorado, at Hovenweep in Utah, and atlocations in Arizona, including, apparently,Springerville.

Seth Tanner and the Secret Hopi CaveIn the 1966 film Mackenna’s Gold,

Omar Sharif plays the villain, a banditnamed, in fact, Colorado. Early in themovie, Colorado has captured Sheriff Mack-enna (Gregory Peck), who has seen a map ofthe route to the secret canyon. With hishands tied, Mackenna and the bandit gangcross a precarious rope-bridge over anarrow, but very deep, canyon. The groupmakes its way across the rickety bridge andends up on the north side of what I believeto be the Little Colorado River Gorge. Todaythis area is a largely off-limits and roadlesspart of the Kaibab National Forest, and partof it lies in the Navaho Reservation.

It is somewhere beyond this crossingthat Mackenna and Colorado find a secretcanyon with a rich vein of gold along one ofits walls and ruins high up on a cliff whichmust have been part of an ancient miningoperation. It is an exciting and imaginativewestern that claims to be based on fact—but is it? Perhaps the facts in this case areeven more bizarre than the fictional movieitself.

One of the most important books (infact, one of the only books) on the GrandCanyon and secret mines and tunnels isQuest for the Pillar of Gold. This compila-tion of scholarly papers on ancient mines,mineral wealth, and modern-historicalmining ventures in the Grand Canyon givesus the tantalizing reality behind all the fan-tastic stories. One would think that a geo-logical wonderland such as the GrandCanyon would offer a wealth of minerals, in-cluding gold. There is definitely an ancientsalt mine and other sites that are sacred tothe Hopi. And tales of gold, such as in theJohn Lee gold mine, circulated around theGrand Canyon. Was one of the ancientmines in the Grand Canyon an Egyptiangold mine?

One celebrated gold prospector who ap-parently discovered a secret cave in theGrand Canyon or Little Colorado Canyonwas Seth Tanner who was then captured byHopi warriors. Tanner (1828-1918) was aMormon miner and trader who had gonewest with Brigham Young in 1847 when theMormons settled Salt Lake City. From SaltLake City he was sent out to set up a smallMormon colony in San Bernardino, Cali-fornia, and it was rumored that he and hisbrother Myron had some luck in the Cali-fornia gold fields. Tanner also spent sometime in San Diego, investing in a coal busi-ness that reportedly did not do too well. Hereturned to Utah and was married; later, he

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new sandstorm is brewing on theoutskirts of the Egyptian desert: re-cently released ground scans revealthat a team of Egyptian scientists

has identified potential locations of tunnelsand caves—on par with the controversialHall of Records—in the immediate vicinityof the pyramids and the Sphinx.

The pyramids of Giza are built on a lime-stone plateau, which means that it has theconsistency of a cheese with lots of holes. In-deed, one cave on the plateau was actuallyincorporated into the internal layout of thepyramid—and may help explain why theGreat Pyramid, the only pyramid which hasan elaborate structure within the pyramid it-self, has this unique internal structure. It istherefore to be expected that elsewhere onthe plateau similar cavities, if not long tun-nels, exist. This makes for intriguing possi-bilities, as some of these tunnels may havebeen used by the ancient Egyptians—or thatother tunnels or caves may have been ex-panded, or new “halls”—such as the fabledHall of Records—constructed.

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teau rises. Some years ago, Andrew Collins inThe Gods of Eden argued that an entirelayout of the Duat was potentially lying inwait for discovery underneath the plateau. Itcame at a time when others were speakingabout the fabled Hall of Records, which, ac-cording to some traditions, would hold im-portant relics of a bygone age, often said topredate Egypt itself (read: Atlantis).

More recently, not so much pyramidfever, but cavity fever, has risen again. Cavityfever has risen, if only because the ground-water in the area is rising too, and this mightendanger the monuments. In some areas,flooding has already begun, caused byfarming, urbanization, and residentialhousing near temples. Reda Mohamed el-Damak, director of the Center of Studies andDesigns for Water Projects at Cairo Univer-sity’s Faculty of Engineering, states thatgroundwater is posing the most seriousthreat to the Sphinx, carved from the bed-rock of the Giza Plateau, and situated atlower altitude than the pyramids, which siton the plateau, themselves. The latest meas-urement readings from the site show thatgroundwater is present at a depth of onlyfour meters under the Sphinx. This means, ofcourse, that any tunnel that goes deeper than


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Current Excavation at GPR Zone Area (8) ofnew underground discovery. January 2008.

Hawass Plans to DrillBeneath the Sphinx

ahi Hawass has said that he plans to drill soon under the GreatSphinx. The report of his intention was published in the Feb-

ruary/March edition of Ancient Mysteries, the newsletter of the Vir-ginia Beach-based Edgar Cayce organization, the Association for Re-search and Enlightenment (A.R.E.).

Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council ofAntiquities, after recently speaking for an hour to an A.R.E. group,said that Joe Jahoda, a longtimeA.R.E. member, had convincedhim to drill under the Sphinx fora chamber. In 1997, Jahoda andhis partner, Joe Schor, in coop-eration with Florida State Uni-versity, had conducted ground-penetrating radar surveysaround the Sphinx and found anopen area in the bedrock be-neath the Sphinx. This opening,possibly a chamber, is 30 feetdown and is estimated to be 26feet wide and 40 feet in length. The Cayce readings named such achamber as an ante-chamber to the Hall of Records, and it was said tobe off the right front paw of the Sphinx.

The newsletter reported that Jahoda asked if A.R.E. would pur-chase the special equipment necessary to drill at an angle into thelimestone bedrock. Kevin Todeschi, CEO of A.R.E., approved andA.R.E. patron Don Dickinson, agreed to help with the purchase. Thus,the drill was obtained, crated, and shipped to Egypt.

Hawass told A.R.E. representatives that soon after the drill arrives,he’ll get his team together and begin the drilling. As author PhilipCoppens has reported, though, Hawass may have more to go on thanthe Jahoda/Schor investigation. See the accompanying story.

Zahi Hawass and the Sphinx

four meters around the area of the Sphinx, isnow under water. Anything inside, unless wa-tertight, will therefore already be destroyed,if only because the water that is causing theproblem is waste water. This does not bodewell for people searching for a Hall ofRecords underneath this enigmatic monu-ment.

Most of the scientific research that is car-ried out today is for preservation. Little ex-ploratory archaeology is occurring. Further-more, in bygone days, dynamite was thepreferred archaeological tool; today, onlynon-destructive methods are allowed. Assuch, trying to find out what lies beneath

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