EGYPTIAN SECRETS

      There are many of them.  Scientists and archaeologists, Egyptologists and linguists are constantly uncovering them.  In the summer of the present 2002, engineers linked up with them. They created a robot the size of a child's train, sent it up into one of the great pyramids, more precisely-into one of the pyramid's tunnels.  The robot drilled anng in a door which was blocking the tunnel and showed behind it. . . one more door.  Never mind what the Egyptians hid behind two doors is still unknown.  But the scientists at least are satisfied by the fact that no ancient grave robbers have been in this tunnel.   They were operating, you know, in the tombs of the kings over several centuries so that only bits and pieces remain from so very much valuable evidence of the past.

    You will agree that it is difficult to perceive such a point of view. Therefore, before rejecting or accepting it, let’s make an imaginary journey through the Egyptian museums and pyramids, let’s examine the famous Collosi of Memnon and even other Egyptian marvels. And then we shall decide who of the scientists is closer to the truth.

     Here they are, the Collosi of Memnon! Speak of the Devil. Their height is nearly 18 meters, and the weight of each is nearly 1,300 tonnes. Both stand guard over a giant pylon of the mortuary temple of Amenophis the Third. They have stood, as the guides assure us, for nearly 3,000 years already. When you look at them, your jaw drops like a rock.  But let’s pick it up and take a look at how the Collosi appear from behind. And there on the back of the right monument is carved a huge Christian cross!  The left side of the cross is chopped off. Some sort of an inscription is visible.

    In other words, one of the most ancient monuments of the past - supposedly from the 14th CENTURY B.C. - was made as a huge Christian symbol. The design on the side face of the right Collosus draws one's attention.  Two men stand along the sides of a peculiar cross and seemingly they are lifting it with the help of a cord tied around poles.  Such forms of T-shaped crosses are well known in Christian tradition, although today they are not very wide-spread. They were depicted, by the way, on old Slavic headstones.

    Perhaps this scene at the throne of the Colossus of Memnon is none other than the well-known Christian holiday of the Exaltation of the Cross.  Apparently, one can find this out having read the hieroglyphic inscription included alongside. But no one has read it for the time being. The scientists have no time. They have to drill the pyramids.

    Let’s drop into the Cairo Egyptian Museum. Here it is fully packed with exhibits with crosses. The usual, Christian. Many of them are inscribed with a circle which forms a halo. They sometimes call them Quatari. They were widely distributed in the Europe of the Middle Ages, especially in France and Spain.

     Here then-the very same well-known Christian symbol of the Middle Ages-of the state Orb with a cross. And alongside- a fragment of a long wall with a number of doors and symbolic guards from the tomb of the pharaoh Seti I.  Over the head of the right guard again- a cross and not far away-three figures with a five-pointed cross, a four-pointed and birds. They are understandable to any Christian without explanations:  the four-pointed cross is the symbol of Jesus Christ, the five-pointed is of God the Father, and the bird is the symbol of the Holy Spirit.

     What then is proved?  Either Jesus Christ lived more than three millennia ago, or  

“ancient” Egypt is no older than the Middle Ages. One of the two.

     But let’s wait on the conclusions. It is better we inspect the other exhibits. For example, the wooden carriage of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in unassembled form. It is marvelously well preserved for its many millennia of age.  And at the same time, like two drops of water, it is similar to the coaches of the European and Russian rulers of the Middle Ages. Almost the very same coaches are shown off today in the Armory Museum of Moscow’s Kremlin. 

   Even a linen (!) shirt has been preserved with a Christian cross in which Tutankhamun was buried. Besides that, the pharaoh, it turns out, wore gloves. Well one of them is a large, knitted glove, developed in the middle of a century in cold Europe. Why was it needed for Tutankhamun in Egypt with its 50-degree (Celsius) heat, no one knows.

    Nevertheless, let’s not dwell on trifles. Let's go to the main Egyptian "exhibits," known to the whole world, the pyramids. It is not possible to restrain one’s enthusiastic emotions in view of these cyclopean structures.

It’s no joke that some of them rise more than a hundred meters. The highest is the pyramid of Cheops. Nearly 140 meters!  Huge blocks go by steps into the sky, toward the sun. Every one of them weighs 15 tonnes, the guide reports. And right here the tourists generally catch their breath:  how did the Egyptians drag these exorbitant weights to such a height? And the guide, as they say, adds fuel to the fire:  they carved out the massive blocks in distant quarries, carried God knows from where is unknown and on what and only then lifted them up and laid them so precisely that even now you don't see gaps between the blocks.  

  What instruments one must have in order to carve blocks from whole rocks with absolutely equal sides and precise angles! What methods of transportation in order to deliver them to the pyramid, doing no damage anywhere!   Assumptions immediately spring to mind about the fact that extraterrestrials or the inhabitants of Atlantis before it sank into the depths of the ocean obviously helped the Egyptians. There simply can be no other explanation.

    The scientists, the nation, not inclined to being carried away by the hypotheses of extraterrestrial helpers, explain the whole process thus. Thousands and thousand of slaves labored in the quarries, and then pulled the blocks on “sleds” to the construction site. And with the aid of resourceful machines or the aid of mounds of sand, dragged the blocks up. Drawings are even published of the presumed hoists. Construction engineers label them as very funny, and that is in a word a bit strong, but this doesn’t embarrass the Egyptologists. What’s what has to be explained to the tourists.

    But here’s the bad luck:  in the thicker of the walls of the lower temple of the pyramid of Hefren are found blocks from 50 to 60 cubic meters in size weighing 150 tonnes. And in the wall of the upper temple one block 13.4 meters long, weighing nearly 180 tonnes, and another even more massive is 170 cubic meters in size and weighs nearly 500 tonnes! Even in our time, the transport of a 500 tonne stone block would be an extremely complex problem. Never mind speaking about Egyptians. And in general, really aren’t they able to cut up this monster into several parts and carry them gradually to the pyramid? It would be a bit lighter. However, they didn’t saw it up. What about it?

   About the fact, the historian reformers reply, that no stone blocks were brought from far away. With the exception of the facing and some internal constructions, the pyramids were executed from concrete. Right on the spot. True, they didn’t have the same concrete as now.

   The well-known chemist, a professor of Brno University, Josef Davidovich, expressed such a hypothesis as early as many years ago. And he not only expressed it, but also proved that if you pound limestone, for example, into a very fine powder, fire it, add silt from the bottom of the Nile, and some other components, which they have in abundance in the Egyptian sands, and then saturate it with water, later after drying out a concrete block will result. One can pulverize granite and other sorts of stones. The result will be the same. In which connection, you already can’t distinguish artificial granite from the real thing.

    So, nothing has to be carried, but simply to load the power mix into a wooden form, saturate it with water, mix up the solution and let it harden. Remove the form and start to create the next block. And like so-to the very top of the pyramid. It is simple and ordinary, without extraterrestrials. In which connection, what is especially important, such construction equipment and technology corresponds exactly to the level of the Middle Ages.

   One could relate to this hypothesis the same as to others. So what if it occurs to the scientists!  But here is the proof. A fragment of a block of the Cheops pyramid was taken from a height of 50 meters, from the exterior masonry. And on its surface was discovered the net-shaped trace of wicker matting which was shaken off the box form for making the block. The matting left a characteristic design on the hardened concrete. In particular at that on the side surface that came in contact with the form. The upper surface itself is uneven.  That’s how it should be in the hardening of concrete, any builder knows this. So that it gets even, they now use special vibrators. The Egyptians didn’t have anything like that.

   The traces of the form are seen on all the blocks in this part of the pyramid. Fifty meters from the ground.

   It is hard to admit that the modern specialists, who are involved with the pyramids, “didn’t notice” this startling fact. Of course they noticed. But they are trying nonetheless to maintain the splendid fairy tail portrayed by the Egyptologists about the great antiquity of the pyramids.

    There is no end to the riddles and secrets of Egypt, the deciphering of which leads to conclusions directly opposite those in existence.  If one tries to summarize them, then, according to the opinion of the historian reformers, the universally known Egyptian funeral complexes-are imperial cemeteries. They brought the great khan kings and other high ranking persons of the Great Empire here to bury. Before the long journey, their bodies were embalmed in order to prevent decomposition. They carried them across the Mediterranean Sea in special boats. Two of them were preserved in the chambers of the Cheops pyramid.

    The scale itself of the funeral construction in Egypt unambiguously shows that the Nile Delta was part of some kind of a gigantic and powerful state which established its own royal cemetery here. The splendor of the funerals and the amount of the valuables that were buried in the earth are inconceivable for Egypt, being far from the richest state of the world, both in bygone ages and in our time. The Egyptian burial places have no equal in the world in the quantity of gold and jewelry. They exceed by many orders any burial place in any other place of the globe in their splendor.  

    Such is the new reconstruction in the most common patterns of Egypt’s history. Or rather, of that part of it where the pyramids tower. They beckon people to them from the whole planet, witnesses of our common history, in many ways still mysterious and incomprehensible.

R. Grishin.