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Part 5
Intro
There are many fascinating places to visit in Egypt, if you have the will to go and to experience a part of ancient history first hand. Many people are called to ancient khemit, and many of those people also find that making that trip, visiting these places only leaves you with the desire to see more, to see it all again and take a closer look. The place should really come with an addiction warning label, like a pack of cigarettes, that cheerfully and redundantly informs you that visiting Egypt may cause a lifelong habit, that is immensely hard to break. It’s as if you are transported to an entirely different world, to immerse yourself in these truly ancient places, that have been touched by so many different people and civilizations that are so distant from us that it is difficult to imagine what life was like in those times, or how and more perplexingly, why, they built such astonishing architecture and created so many incredible artifacts that have withstood time to stand in mute testament for us today.
Of all these places, perhaps none of them so effectively convey this sense of mystery and wonder in so efficiently a fashion as does the Serapeum of Saqqara. Entering the massive underground labyrinth, you’re instantly transported to another world, to another time. The instantly cooler air, the immediate darkness contrasting against the hot and bright desert landscape outside, the cavernous, straight as an arrow system of tunnels, you immediate recognize the sheer scope of the undertaking ….. The mystery only deepens when you see what the tunnels lead you to, a seemingly random collection of simply astonishing objects; 24 mighty, precision carved single-piece stone boxes and matching, gigantic lids, combined weighing up to 100 tons, most of which are finished and polished so well that they are still reflecting light after millennia in the dust, all housed in sunken alcoves, like the engines and generators of some vast underground machine. Indeed the closer you look at the Serapeum and it’s enigmatic boxes, the more that you try to puzzle out their purpose, or their true origin, seems only to intensify the true depth of the mysteries that are still housed in this place.
My name is Ben, and you’re watching UnchartedX. Over the preceding 4 chapters of this video series, (links below if you haven’t seen them) we’ve examined some of the evidence that a form of ancient high technology must have been used in several aspects of these boxes creation. Technology that cannot be attributed to the dynastic egyptians, nor achieved via the tools that exist in the archaeological record. From the unrelenting precision and flatness of the interiors of the boxes, to the mirror-like finishing polish of the outsides, to the challenge of quarrying, shipping and moving such massive objects into these locations, the othodox explanation that this was all done by a primitive ancient civilization, with hand tools and human power alone, reveals itself as logically unsupportable. Therefore a new theory is needed. The dynastic egyptians undoubtedly occupied this site, and utilized it as part of their great civilization, yet if they didn’t create this place, and it’s objects, what can we conclude? They must have inherited it, from some distant and perhaps unknown ancestors, or perhaps from the same gods they describe in their own legends, after all, they do describe themselves as a ‘legacy civilization,’ and perhaps this occurred in much the same way as modern egypt has inherited the site today. Even lost in the sands for millenia, only to be re-discovered a mere handful decades ago, this majestic site seems to stand resilient and unaffected by the rise and fall of entire civilizations.
In this final episode of this series, we’ll investigate some of the contradictions that are evident in the site and how they relate to it’s dating by orthodox egyptology, take a look at some of the evidence for renovations that were carried out by the dynastic Egyptians when they occupied it, and try to draw some conclusions as to the true origins and purpose of the engima known to us today as the Serapeum of Saqqara.
so many different cultures and civilizations
Watch the other 4 chapters
Contradictions and conclusions
The Writing
We begin by
More high technology
Moving the boxes into the tunnels and expertly placing their immense mass down and into the centers of the recessed alcoves, that they still haunt today, is no simple task.
- Tunnel analysis. Very straight, level. Compare to pyramid tunnels. Not exactly high tech but extremely difficult nonetheless. Clearly some tunnels are different to others, with an almost random assortment of alcoves. Take this long tunnel and chamber, the only of it’s type on the site. Also the layout, where no single alcove is directly opposite the other, seems to hint at some functional purpose.
- Yousef talks about that, subtitle?
Some of the clearest evidence that the serapeum was inherited, and not built by the Dynastic Egyptians, during the middle kingdom, as it is claimed, comes from the site itself. At its base level of construction, the Serapeum is a series of cavernous tunnels that run straight as an arrow, the longest passage being more than 150 meters in length, with high ceiling and enough width to drive a car down it, with several side tunnels next to the main gallery It’s mighty polished granite boxes are housed in a number of off-set, sunken alcoves are both taller and deeper than the passageways themselves. The precision that is evident in the leveling and direction of these tunnels, that run through the limestone bedrock that underpins the desert sands of the saqqara region, is in and of itself an example of ancient high technology. This is no simple nor easy achievement. Considering the precision of the work draws the mind towards other, somewhat similar, and also extremely precise bedrock tunneling examples that, allegedly, come to us from the very earliest periods of the dynastic egyptians. Works likes the descending passageway to the subterranean chamber of the great pyramid. While there is still much debate on the origin and purpose of this passageway, and the subterrainean chamber it leads to, and whether it was constructed by, or inherited by the ancient egyptians, one cannot debate the utter precision that is evident in it’s construction, and marvel that people of any technology level managed to construct this at all. And it’s not uncommon, when it comes to the so called old kingdom structures at sites like Giza and Saqqara. They are literally riddled with precision carved underground passages, and interconnected series of tunnels, shafts and catacombs. Cf app’s 7867’s channel recently did an excellent video showing many of the lesser known mysterious sites, like the one at Abu Rawash, or Zawyet El ayran, that are all similar in that they had underground pits, aligned to the compass, huge single piece, precision boxes or coffers, and complex, granite and diorite megalithic construction around them. These were likely never pyramids at all. The application of all these various forms of underground or enclosed construction, the requirement for massive coffers and boxes and the use of precision leaves me with the distinct impression that there must have been a functional purpose to all this work, although the exact nature of that functionality seems to lie outside of our current civilization’s perspective.
The tunnel system of the Serapeum also seems to extend further than is shown either on maps or in person, into spaces that, as far as I know, we have yet to fully investigate. At the end of the main gallery there is a small passageway that extends as far as the light from our torches can show. Yousef clip
Although there is a wall standing here, its possible, indeed likely that the tunnel system extends past it, to what we can only guess at. There were many of these types of wall and false ‘ends’ of the Serapeum when Auguste Mariette redisovered the place in the 1800s. All of the alcoves that contain the boxes were themselves walled off when he found it, the walls had to be destroyed to find the boxes. The entire closed off section near the entrance, that houses the very large black box, as well as several other rarely seen alcoves wasn’t discovered at all until relatively recently. (yousef brief )
Yousef contends that there could be multiple levels to the site, and as large and impressive as the Serapeum is, we might have only uncovered a small portion of what truly lies beneath the sand and limestone bedrock of Saqqara. Given the scope of the site itself and what surrounds it in saqqara, with its deep shafts and miles of tunnels under the Step pyramid, this conclusion seems entirely possible. It is very strange to me that these obvious extensions have not been thoroughly explored, nor does there seem to be any interest in doing so by those who are in charge of the site. If they have been explored, the rest of humanity certainly hasn’t been informed, and sadly this type of secretive activity is not remotely out of character for the all powerful ministry of antiquities in egypt and it’s notorious leader from the past few decades [shame on you].
Would this type of exploration not be a perfect target for something like a university robotics competition? Imagine the exposure, millions of people would be interested, it seems like it could pay for itself, just through the publicity it would generate. I will never know why these obvious avenues of investigation using the technology of our times are not actively pursued, either in the Serapeum, or inside the great pyramid, or down into the shafts and cavities under the sphinx, or into the water and tunnels of the Osirion, the list could go on and on… It seems like an easy home run to me, but I suppose it might be less attractive if you were, lets say, less open minded about what might be found – and how it could affect your precious story of history, that must be so viciously protected at all costs. We have it solved, who needs new data, or new ideas? [cut this next sentence?] Or maybe that type of open sourced, public investigation would just be too difficult for Zahi Hawass to take personal credit for it. [zahi clip/byte]
There is clear evidence of renovation work that took place in the Serapeum during ancient times. The word Renovation is a derivative of ‘renew,’ which implies that the subject of said renewing needed it in the first place, and when applied to this site, that clearly means that the Serapeum was already ancient when the dynastic Egyptians begun their work on it. Do you renovate a building at the sam e time you build it? That Doesn’t make any sense at all. Renovation is what we humans do when we inherit places like this, just look at the evidence for modern renovation, the stabilizing steel girders, the addition of electricity, and the wooden flooring. The ancient egyptians were no differnet, they also left their mark on this place, the evidence of renovation, much as we have in modern times. Many areas of the site are plastered over, and limestone tiles have been added, or in some cases just the pattern of tiles has been etched into the plaster. Lots of people in the comment section of the previous Serapeum videos have mistaken this for actual brickwork, thinking that the tunnel system has been built, rather than hewn from bedrock, but it’s most definitely all bedrock with a plaster and tiles, as outlined by Yousef: yousef talks.
So not the ceiling, nor the tunnel walls are constructed of masonry, they are carved directly from the bedrock. This highlights one of the major challenges the original builders faced when conceiving the Serapeum, and one which still boggles my tiny wee brain to this day, which is how do we move these stone behemoths down into the tunnels? How do we lower them in to the very center of their recessed alcoves? The largest boxes, like this rose granite box, have a width that is less than one foot than the width of the tunnel itself. I’ll repeat that, some of the boxes have less than one foot clearance from the tunnels they must have been moved through.
talk about roof
Any way you cut it, however it was done, moving these boxes was clearly a herculean effort. Consider the othodox explanation, that a so-called primitive civilization moved 50 to 100 ton blocks of stone down into an underground tunnel system, and then expertly lowered and centered them into alcoves. Could we do this today? Perhaps, with unlimited funding and hydraulics of course we could. But could we have done this 100 years ago? 200 years ago? Very likely not would be my answer, we couldn’t even budge the lid 150 years ago, hence Mariette blew open one of the boxes with dynamite, because we’re such curious monkeys. When you start claiming that ancient primitive civilizations were doing things like moving these giant blocks of stone around in tunnels that are barely larger than the blocks themselves, turning corners with them, lowering them in the center of alcoves, things that our own civilization could not have managed only 100 years ago, it’s probably time to take a long hard look at your theory, and to redefine what you mean by ‘primitive.’
We even have a box that was clearly ‘in transit’ in one of the tunnels, and was abandoned for one reason or another. This is actually a remarkable opportunity to look for evidence of how they were transported. One of the most common explanations from the egyptologists is that blocks of stone were moved on wooden sleds. This seems almost plausible for smaller blocks, perhaps a ton or two, but is increasingly less so as the mass increases. How many people would it take to pull a sled with 50 tons? Where would they stand? How do you light the tunnel – how do you even get enough air down there, assuming you have hundreds of hard working laborors? The challenges continue to stack up. [yousef talking]
What’s more, do you think there is any evidence whatsoever for sleds under this block? Do you not think that if anything, even remotely suggestive of a sled, a sled proxy, the smallest sliver or wood or anything else was found, that academia and the othodox egyptologists would have crowed it long and loud as evidence for their theory? I certainly think they would be. There is simply no evidence or trace whatsoever of a sled or anything of it’s type being used to move this block, and it’s logically inconsistent with the stark reality of the place the box rests in.
Clearly, high technology was required to move the boxes through the tunnel system, to turn the corners, then to accurately lower them into the centers of the depressed alcoves, some with a drop of 4-5 feet. I do not believe that that the dynastic egyptians possessed this technology. I think that they iherited this site and these boxes, millennia after the boxes were placed in the alcoves, and it is exactly there that they have rested ever since, at least the largest of them. We can’t move them, and the ancient egyptians couldn’t move them either. It is here that we find the very best evidence that this site was renovated in ancient times. If you look closely at the floor around these boxes, you’ll find that limestone floor tiles have been added, built specifically around the boxes. In some areas of the site, these tiles have been exposed, and what you find is that the tiles have been fabricated from the masonry of other ancient egpytian sites, they’ve been quarried from older sites, then brought down and shaped to fit the boxes. They have writing on them, upside down and in locations were it could not be seen if there was a box present in the alcove.
Yousef
To be clear, it seems like the dynastic egyptians may have been trying to add smaller boxes to the site, and certainly they could have moved some of the smaller objects around, like this box at the entrance to a long passageway. We’ll never really know though, as all the smaller pieces of high quality stone have been quarried and removed, this may also apply to any smaller boxes that were originally here.
Many niches have also been carved into the limestone bedrock, and it’s difficult to say if these are contemporary with the original construction or not. I think that many of the smaller niches were added later, some of them seem to be aligned with the plaster work, but a close examination of the alcoves that contain the boxes will reveal large niches on either side of each box. These niches once held huge granite slabs, shaped like so called false doors, almost all of which have been quarried and removed, as these were much easier targets for those that robbed this place of it’s stonework, than trying to break apart the gigantic boxes.
In any case, renovating the site at the same time as you supposedly built the site, just doesn’t make any sense. The idea that this was a middle kingdom new construction, with obvious evidence of renovation from the exact same period, just doesn’t hold up to a logical examination of the facts. Undoubtedly this site was occupied by the Egyptians, we know this not only from the renovations, but specifically from the writings in the site, and it is from these writings that the date of the complex itself and t he massive granite boxes it contains is derived.
Yet again, this explanation for the site’s origin simply falls apart, with the most basic of critical examination. Just compare the quality of writing you see here, to the quality of the boxes themselves, and consider the technology required to make them, vs the technology that is evident in the writing.
Yousef
- Obviously inferior to the box, anyone can see that. Show all boxes, some of it is decent, but still obviously tooled, take a look at big box, let yousef talk.
- Lines. The empty shen, priests selling it…
- Dating it from the writing!
The writing is clearly of an inferior quality to that of the box. How can you reasonably date anything other than the writing itself by what it says? Yet this how the box and the site itself is officially dated. What is obvious from the writing is that it was done with tools. The writing is explainable by the tools that we see in the archaeological record (show tools), even if the box itself isn’t. You can imagine someone hammering away at the box with a chisel, and the middle and later Greek/Roman times they certainly had access to iron and other harder materials.
Here is another dead giveaway that the writing is not contem porary with the box itself, and it’s not something that is immediately obvious, but the heioglyphic writing and artwork have quite obviously not been POLISHED. Compare the surface of the glyphs themselves to rest of the box. It’s not like they couldn’t be polished, if they were part of the original construction – as we know from the scoop marks that the original builders could polish almost any divot or part of the rock. If you were going to engrave it with meanings as part of it’s original, ceremonial purpose, you would engrave it THEN polish it. If the writing is original, why can’t they seem able to draw Straight lines? Look at the perfect Straight lines of the box itself!
Conclusions. Speculation ahead
This is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg in terms of what I think this means for much of ancient egypt’s most impressive stonework. Consider the box as an blindlingly obvious example. Anyone who ponders this, even briefly, will conclude that he who quarried, made and transported the box was not the same person who basically vandalized it later with a chisel. and that there are clearly two different levels of technology and aptitude on display here, both of them coming to us from ancient times. Of the two, the lower form of technology, which was also the later work, was undoubtedly that of the dynastic egyptians. What is the reasoning behind this conclusion? There are 2 clear points supporting it: 1. the writing and glyphs are obviously tool made, leaving clear tooling marks in many cases., and 2. the writing is not polished, they don’t have that fine reflective finish of the rest of the box, despite the builders clearly having this capability to do so.
Now start to apply those two conditions to any of the truly astonishing works of stone that come to us from the oldest times of the ancient egyptian civilizati
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on, across many of the sites, and many of the amazing objects in the egpytian museum, and you will begin to the notice the exact same thing. Writing, that has clearly been done by hand, leaving obvious tool marks, and the unpolished,rough surfaces of the writing, right next to the perfectly finished, reflective surfaces of the original object. Statues, boxes, even the massive columns and obelisks, you see the same thing, time and time again. Now many of the writings on these objects across ancient egypt are clearly of a much higher quality than those that are poorly carved into the box in the Serapeum. sStone engraving was clearly a high art form that developed over time in ancient egypt. It is truly incredibly work in many places, it takes your breath away to see it. Yet, even in these cases, the same 2 principles hold true, even though it’s not always as obvious as the box in the Serapeum, but when it comes to the incredible precision objects of ancient Egypt, that clearly show signs of high technology in their construction, any writings on them simply do not reflect the same level of technology that is shown by the objects themselves.
- Take this statue, known to us as Kafre Enthroned, In the egyptian museum for example.
It’s Beautiful, made from a anorthosite gneiss (basically diorite) which is what they use to, supposedly pound out granite with. Let’s agree it made of very hard stone. Clearly this is the creation of a master craftsman. Incredible detail, polished everywere with that familiar, shiny finish. The fingernails, the nipples,(heh I said nipples, beavis giggle), all the subtle shapes in the stone. now look at the writing. It’s clearly Not perfect. There are Obvious hand tool marks. It’s NOT POLISHED. Look at the lotus flower, the fine detail, is all polished.
This other statue (small sphinx) the delicate detail on the ribs, almost defining them with reflection of light than anything else, and the almost crude details of the writing next to it. Polished, vs not polished. Tool marks, vs no obvious tool marks. This box. Polished, vs not polished, toolmarks, vs no toolmarks. Again.
Yousef.
As I mentioned in an earlier part of this series, occasionally you do see marking on the high technology objects, and in the oldest parts of the old kingdom sites, yet these marks make no sense whatsoever when it comes to the capabilities of the ancient egyptians, and the tools and techniques we know they used. Let’s go back to the statue of Kafre, what about toolmarks on the statue? They are certainly no No hand tool marks, but there are other marks. Look at this overcut, into the diorite, where he is seated. Or this, the a circular tube drill mark, between his feet, something that is on many of the statues. Cutting this material by hand takes literally hours and hours of effort to go even a fraction of an inch into the stone. This isn’t something that is debated, the scholars just hand wave it away and say the egpytians had a lot of people, working really hard at it, for a long time. Overcuts into diorite just don’t happen when you’re doing things by hand, yet here is the evidence of a clear overcut, like you might make into wood with a circular saw. This can only mean that something, some process that was much, much more powerful that hand tools, was used on the stone to effect this cut. As Yousef mentions, it reflects the use of what can only be described as power tools. And when it comes to power tool marks, there are a LOT of them. On objects, like the tube drill holes into this box in the museum. Or these spectacular tube drill marks into granite at Abu Sir, or these on the alabaster hotep of Abu Ghorab. Or these circular saw marks on basalt blocks at abu sir, or these overcuts on the basalt floor tiles next to the Great Pyramid, or these marks on the incredible stone block at Abu Rawash, the evidence for power tools is undeniable, even if we have no trace of the tools that made them. Where you do not see these marks, however, is in any of the writing, even on the writing that is also on objects that show power tool marks. What does that mean? That the writing most likely came later, and was effected with a much more primitive level of technology than is evident in the objects themselves.
- I’ve seen a lot of this stuff, up close and in person, and once you notice the specific pattern of high technology objects and tool marks, mixed in with low technology writing, and low technology renovations, it’s like a revelation. Evaluating all this evidence over the past several years has left me with a pretty clear conclusion. There is absolutely two different levels of technology on display when it comes to everything attributed to ancient egypt, with the vastly more advanced one being the OLDER, and unknown. This is the great contradiction to the orthodox Egyptologists story, the one they never like to directly address, that somehow, out of the stone age, the Egyptians build some of the greatest architectural achievements and precision objects the world has ever seen, from some of the hardest stone, quarried and cut into improbably large sizes, I guess just for the challenge of it, after all smaller blocks would have worked just as well for all your so-called temples and ceremonial objects, and then forever lost the capability to build like that, never to recover it, despite trying to for millenia afterwards. They kept building pyramids, temples, and stone work for thousands of years, yet they never reached the same heights of perfection shown by the old kingdom structures and artifacts. Is that really how it works from a human civilizational context? Do you ascend to those heights, over time, like in our civilization, which as ascended and gained capability for at least a thousand years? Or do civilizations emerge fully developed, achieve their heights, and then devolve and lose capability? Starts to sound pretty silly doesn’t it? Yet this is the story we are told.
- Speculation ahead
- When considering this evidence, I believe that It makes much more sense to conclude that we are talking about two different civilizations entirely. Two civilizations that occupied the same space, yet were separated by cataclysm and time. The older civilization was quite clearly highly advanced, and they were building for function, as that is the only possible use for the incredible levels of precision that we seen in their work. Their purpose, the function of their work, is unknown to us, and may well exist outside of our own perspective entirely. They were quite possibly global, their megalithic footprint is everywhere, and their pyramid architecture seems like a universal concept inherited by so many cultures across the earth, from China, to central and south america, to eastern europe, to the middle east and africa. They understood the motions of the heavens, and the dynamics of the earth, and they aligned their structures to that end, even encoding the fundamental constants of nature and the dimensions of the planet into their architecture. We are still learning about these connections at the great pyramid, at the great temple of man at karnak, and at other structures whose origins go back deep into time. This celestial knowledge and concepts of astrology have been encoded in many religions, in many cultures, even into our own modern religion, a sun cult lifted mostly from the ancient egyptian sun cult, and who’s deities like Moses and Jesus represent the celestial ages and cycles of the heavens. As shown by the excellent book Hamlet’s Mill, these same celestial concepts and encoded information that exist across many disparate cultures and religions must have had a common source, one that existed far back in time. This ancient lost civilization exhibited a mastery over natural materials, in particular withn their stonework, the likes of which we have never seen since on this planet since. And we know why this civilization is lost to us, they were almost utterly destroyed in a global cataclysm, leaving behind only some of their great works and bits and pieces of their culture. Evidence for this cataclysm is now overwhelming, it’s known as the younger Dryas, and whether it was a cosmic impact, a CME from the sun, the poles shifting or combination of all of them, we now know that the earth went through a prolonged period of utter devastation at the end of the last ice age, that changed the surface of the earth, and would have certainly wiped out a global civilization that was most likely living on the coastlines and temperate zones of the time. Perhaps some small pockets of this culture survived, to eek out a vastly reduced existence in places like Giza, and Saqqara. Many thousands of years later, after the human race had been reduced to hunter gatherers, reduced to stone age status once more, as populations gradually began to increase thanks to the nice weather and calm climate of the holocene, another civilization emerges in these places, the one we know today as the Dynastic Egpytians. They inherit some of the artifacts that survived through time, some of the sites, some of the architecture, even some of the culture of their precursors, modelling themselves after them, worshipping them. They might even have called them gods, and kept some of their precursors knowledge alive through ceremony and religion, using these inherited sites for initiation, finding them sacred, much as we do today, even if they didn’t understand their true functional natures, or the lost capability of their ancestors.
Yousef
- This is a tale repeated through time and across the planet. Many ancient cultures have origin stories that involve their world being destroyed, whether through flood or fire, both of which overtook the earth at the end of the last ice age, and they speak of highly capable ancestors, of gods and giants, whom they worshipped and modelled themselves after. Viracocha of the Inca, the Sumerians, the Egyptians, babylonians, the Aztecs, so many others tell this tale, Graham Hancock’s seminal work of 20 years ago Fingerprints of the Gods outlines, and who’s book’s conclusion has been so effectively vindicated with recent findings of the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact.
There is now a huge amount of evidence supporting this conclusion, so let’s swing it back to the Serapeum. To put it plainly, I believe we are looking directly at the works of this ancient, lost civilization, and that this place was, after the cataclysm, later inherited, renovated and used ceremonially by the dynastic egyptians. I firmly believe that in it’s original form, this site, and the boxes themselves were functional in nature, their precision alone is proof of that, and I think this applies to the original components of many of the incredible megalithic works and sites in egypt.I think the origin of these sites goes back far further in time, and that they were damaged or destroyed in the great cataclysm at the end of the last ice age. They were inherited, then extensively modified and worked on by the cultures that followed, and this seems to clearly be the case also for the Serapeum. I’m sure the ancient egpytians found the boxes to be as awe inspiring and sacred as we do, you really can’t help but be humbled by what you’re seeing when you stand inside this ancient place.
As to their original function? I can truly say that I don’t know. I’m open to ideas, but to become more than just ideas they must have evidence that stands up to scrutiny. I’ve certainly heard many theories to this end, yet none that bring any conclusive evidence to back them up. Maybe the site was energetic in some form, drawing energy from the earth, through lay lines, or telluric currents. Maybe it was vibrational, connected to the harmonics of the planet, maybe the entire site functioned under water, maybe it had to do with the specific harmonics or chemical makeup of the boxes themselves, or maybe the answer lies whatever it was that the boxes originally contained. Maybe it was a battery, or a generator, or maybe it was just a small component of a far larger machine. All these theories are still guesses from within our own civilization, from our own time, from o ur perspective, our guesses are informed by our technology, our history, and maybe the original builder civilization has capability and technology is that is entirely outside of our perspective all together. We certainly don’t know everything, in many ways we are just beginning to understand the true nature of our environment, and as far as it goes maybe noone has the answers today. However, I am absolutely convinced that it is within our capability to find out. All we need is the courage to truly apply ourselves, to deploy the scientific method with open minds, and to be willing to follow the evidence, no matter how uncomfortable or challenging it is for the egyptologists and their precious dogmatic story of human history. All we have to do is to admit the mystery. Admit that we aren’t the sum total of human civilization, that we may just be on the latest cycle of the civilization hamster wheel, and then we are in a position to possibly learn something, and begin the process of uncovering the truth.
All I can say is that I’ll always be fascinated by this place, and if you ever get the chance to go to Egypt, make sure you don’t miss the astonishing Serapeum of Saqqara.