Egypt And The Supreme Council of Antiquities
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General Of The Supreme Council Of Antiquities, Egypt One thing that almost everyone knows, who has had anything to do with the Egyptian government regarding the pyramids and the sphinx, is that these structures are fiercely guarded. I am not talking about being guarded from vandals or grave robbers, but guarded from the scientific community to a certain extent. Dr. Zahi Hawass is the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, known as the SCA. That is quite a title and he is probably in charge of the most important structures ever built in Antiquity. I say this because he is not only in charge of the great pyramid and sphinx, but also all the tombs, temples and pyramids that dot Egypt. Some say that he is secretive beyond any reasonable measure regarding certain requests by foreign governments. These are the people that feel that the Egyptian treasures belong to the entire world. Their reasoning is that the Egyptian culture led to the civilized world. I don't know if I agree with that, the part that says all the ancient wonders in Egypt belong to all of us that is, but they are certainly important to all of us and we should all have a vested interest in seeing them preserved. For years requests have been made to Dr. Hawass for permission to physically go under the sphinx and Dr; Hawass has denied these requests. He may have been told to deny them by even higher powers in the government, or he may have decided on his own to do this. Why is this important? It is important to the world because it is said that ground radar has found what might be a room under the sphinx and the world wants to know if there is a room and if so could it be a library of sorts that might prove that the Sphinx was not built by the Egyptians. Well my friend the Egyptians don't hold truck with any of this. The last thing that they would want to happen is for people to find out that some other race built the Sphinx. Not only is this a matter of national pride, but if this was ever found out, it might cause people to think that some other race may have built the pyramids also. Could this hurt tourism? I don't think so, but the Egyptians may not want to take that chance. I have written Dr. Hawass and offered to give him an interview, but I guess that I am too small a fish for him to even answer.
Great Pyramid And Sphynx There has been a rumor that has been floating around for a few years now and that is that the Egyptians have built an underground tunnel under the Sphinx from the Great Pyramid and have found a room under the Sphinx and that they have removed everything that was in it. Could the Egyptian government have access to ancient secrets about these things and maybe other things that the rest of the world should know about? There are those that think that the room might have contained scrolls from Atlantis, but this is like saying that maybe there were records from UFOs in the room. I have even heard rumors that some other structures were found that were under the sand and we haven't been told about them yet. It is an interesting concept that maybe older races than the Egyptians were responsible for some of the monuments and structures in Egypt and that there may still be more of them to be dug up. One thing that seems to have been overlooked by most people, is the fact that some experts think that the entire population of ancient Egypt at the time that they supposedly built the pyramids was only about a million and a half people including women and children. There are some who seem to think that it was about ten million, but historians are beginning to feel that this is a major overestimation. If we take the population of about a million and a half and divide it in half for the amount of men, that only leaves about 750,000 men in the entire country. We have to subtract from that the male children. Let's be generous and say that there were about 100,000 male children. This leaves only 650,000 men in the entire country including the elderly. It has been estimated by many experts that it would have taken more than the 650,000 to build the pyramids. This is not all experts however and some say that if 20 men were used to drag a block weighing 2.5 tons and it was lubricated by water, it could have been dragged to the pyramid from the quarry in about 30 minutes. The Greek historian Herodotus stated that it took 100,000 men to build the pyramids. Was this true? Maybe but that would have been about 1/6th of all the men in the Egyptian population. Could the Egyptians have had help building the pyramids? There are pyramids all over the world and people have wondered why this is. Some of the pyramids have the same size base and height as some of the Egyptian pyramids and this has puzzled scientists. Could it be that other races helped build the pyramids and then returned home with pyramid building skills and plans? Maybe the ancient Egyptians hired laborers? The ancient Egyptians were big on secret tunnels. It is believed that even today there are tunnels in some of the pyramids that are yet to be discovered. This leads me to the tunnels that may have been found that we have not been told about. There have been stories about secret tunnels that might connect different structures. Some say that the tunnel that might connect the Sphinx to the Great Pyramid could be of modern construction and that its sole purpose for being was to be able to empty that supposed room under the Sphinx without being seen. On the other hand it could have been an ancient tunnel, because a community of tunnels has been found under the tomb of Osiris. It could turn out that there are some structures that were built by other races in Egypt and they are mixed in with the Egyptian ones. Sometimes a race comes and goes and doesn't leave any written clues, especially when they might even predate writing. I guess it could be possible that there was another culture in the very same area before the Egyptians came along and they were builders also. Taking this a step further, could some ancient Egyptians have used some other race's structures and left Egyptian markings in them? I think that there is still an awful lot to be learned about the the structures that we see today in Egypt and I am sure that there are plenty of people that would love to be able to investigate this. |
