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Vandalism in the Great Pyramid

Breaking Rocks: Great Pyramid Vandals Get 5 Years Prison

Late last year we covered the story of two German ‘amateur archaeologists’ who had chipped some stone off the wall in the relieving chambers of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, with the goal of dating it to see if the orthodox timeline for the pyramid’s construction held up. I noted at the time that despite their lack of credentials, the pair seemed to have official permission to do some research within the pyramid, and that heads might roll as a result.

Fast forward a year, and that is exactly what has happened:

An Egyptian court sentenced three Germans and six Egyptians to five years jail on Tuesday for stealing fragments of a pharaonic artifact from Cairo’s Great Pyramid, a judicial source said.

A court in Giza, south of the capital, sentenced in absentia three Germans — who had claimed they were researchers — for stealing pieces of an ancient scroll bearing the name of the Pharaoh Khufu, as well as rock samples, the source said.

Six Egyptians, including three employees of the antiquities ministry, two pyramid guards and the director of a travel agency, were also jailed for five years for aiding the robbery, the source said.

I’m not sure what this “ancient scroll bearing the name of Khufu” is though – unless there is some confusion and they are referring to Khufu’s name being written on the stone wall of the relieving chamber.

And the rolling heads may get bigger in the near future as well, with Zahi Hawass now under investigation over claims he helped the German vandals.

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  1. Takes a Vandal to Catch a Vandal
    The paint used for the Khufu cartouche should have been dated through proper channels, but that didn’t happen and may never happen. So, it’s highly ironic that this group should be convicted of vandalism for trying to expose an act of vandalism!

    Atlantis Rising has recently published a couple of very significant articles on the Khufu cartouche controversy:

    http://atlantisrisingmagazine.com/2014/0
    http://atlantisrisingmagazine.com/2014/0

    It’s now beyond obvious that the Great Pyramid pre-dates the Egyptian 4th Dynasty by thousands of years.

    1. Cartouche
      So Atlantis Rising, a magazine famous for it’s diverse viewpoints and lack of agenda, has found the smoking gun of an obvious 1800’s conspiracy- the cartouche was rendered vertically instead of horizontally in an old notebook. ( Same issue also contains an exciting story about proof of nuclear bomb explosions on Mars) So there we have it-a cut- and- dried case of deception with NO other possible explanation. And when such a thing is done, citizen scientists must fight the militant materialists by any means possible, even if that means breaking laws and defacing irreplaceable antiquities. Imagine how much valuable knowledge will be gained when this approach becomes widespread- I personally want to “borrow” one of the Stonehenge saracen stones because it is not a stone, but a clever replica which contains ancient technology inside- yes. I will have to smash it up a bit, but if the MM liars had not spread such falsehoods calling it something it is not and providing a ridiculous construction timeline would not have to resort to such tactics….. and there is SO much at stake here!!!

      1. Use It or Lose It
        Bauval’s primary motive for defending the act appears to be that Hawass had accused him of putting the Germans up to it!

        Nevertheless, I agree that the time was right for a careful and calculated act of civil disobedience. No real damage was done and it has brought significant attention to the issue. Sometimes, this is how change occurs!

        Here’s a few more articles I found on this topic:

        http://www.messagetoeagle.com/alternativeresrspyramidstones.php#.VGtlxzgtCAh

        http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/why-did-two-german-hobbyists-deface-a-cartouche-of-khufu-inside-the-great-pyramid-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-atlantis/story-fnjwl1aw-1226802932762

        http://www.robertschoch.net/Khufu%20Cheops%20Giza%20Relieving%20Chambers%20Colette%20Dowell.htm

        I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of this. According to the articles, the samples are now at Dresden University in Germany.

        When I went to Egypt I received unexpected cooperation from the various Egyptian directors of archaeology sites, including and especially Karnak. They did not discriminate against me for not being associated with any university or not having a PhD in Egyptology. I was allowed access to restricted areas of the temple complex to take critical photos needed for my research, which are posted here:

        http://www.domainofman.com/book/images19.html

        I made every effort to tread as lightly as possible, but I’m sure some minute wear on the already ramshackle structure was inevitable. Was it worth it? Hell yeah. Did a professor (William Murnane, now deceased) that happened to also be on-site with his grad students appreciate what I was allowed to do? Probably not, but he didn’t make any protest. The University of Chicago also allowed me access to their library in Luxor to examine a survey (after donning a pair of white gloves) of the section of the temple I was interested in. This was also somewhat begrudgingly, but the local Egyptian authorities had approved it.

        This “equal access” system was quite surprising and ultimately made my trip a success. A lot has happened in Egypt since I was there in 2000, but I hope that sincere amateurs will continue to be encouraged to study the Egyptian monuments alongside the academics.

    2. Old Kingdom monument dates
      Concerning the comments about the Great Pyramid being thousands of years older than the accepted date. What about all the verified, tested radiocarbon dates placing Old Kingdom monuments well within the archaeologically accepted period?

      From Egyptologist Mark Lehner’s site at http://www.aeraweb.org/projects/how-old-are-the-pyramids/ :

      “In 1994-1995 the David H. Koch Foundation supported us for another round of radiocarbon dating.

      We broadened our sampling to include material from:

      The 1st Dynasty tombs at Saqqara (2920-2770 BC).
      The Djoser pyramid (2630-2611 BC).
      The Giza Pyramids (2551-2472BC).
      A selection of 5th Dynasty pyramids (2465-2323 BC).
      A selection of 6th Dynasty pyramids (2323-2150 BC).
      A selection of Middle Kingdom pyramids (2040-1640 BC).

      We also took samples from our Giza Plateau Mapping Project Lost City excavations (4th Dynasty), where we discovered two largely intact bakeries in 1991. Ancient baking left deposits of ash and charcoal, which are very useful for dating.

      The 1995 set of radiocarbon dates tended to be 100 to 200 years older than the Cambridge Ancient History dates, which was about 200 years younger than our 1984 dates.”

      But still close to the “orthodox” accepted dates. What is the explanation for this, other than the preposterous notion that Lehner and the other mainstream Egyptologists have resorted to massive fraud?

      1. Original Great Pyramid Construction vs. Refurbishment
        The 4th Dynasty pharaohs were merely refurbishing the complex. This was also not the first refurbishment that was attempted, which obviously complicates dating of material at the site.

        It’s not so much that Egyptologists are guilty of massive fraud, but of massive ignorance. When doing carbon dating studies, they have routinely thrown out all readings that are not in the expected range and chalk it up to “error.” Also, we have to keep in mind that carbon dating can only give us relative dating, not absolute. The actual start of the Egyptian Old Kingdom cannot have been earlier than the Thera eruption of circa 1600 BC.

        The radio carbon dates need to be recalibrated to make them consistent with known catastrophes. However, Egyptologists refuse to consider adjusting the “accepted” chronology by more than a few years here and there. Their mentality about dating is not science, but pseudo-science. If we really need to have precise dating and registration of historical events, then we have to adopt the same obsession with time as the Mayans. They were actively tracking the cycles of long-period comets (on the order of thousands of years). We are totally clueless as to what year this is in the Mayan Calendar, and therefore will not know when we have reached the true end of their calendar, or be able to anticipate whatever it was that they anticipated. So-called scientists are not the least bit interested in this objective!

  2. Bauval Defends the German Team
    Bauval emphatically, even vehemently, defends the Germans against the charge of vandalism here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBVDalR_ZMA

    Again, we are almost certainly dealing with a cartouche that is a fraud, so even if it was damaged (by some other person/group), we should keep that firmly in mind. I would still love to see this paint dated. That in itself cannot prove the age of the Great Pyramid, but it is still a “data point” for those who are genuinely trying to understand the monument.

    1. Not seeing the bigger picture
      IMO it doesn’t matter if the lab tests conducted on the samples would confirm that the cartouche is indeed a modern forgery. The manner by which they were obtained will completely invalidate the results in the eyes of most historians and Egyptologists.

      1. Crimes of Passion
        The problem is that Egyptologists (and Academics in general) refuse to even suspect they are wrong about so many things, much less admit it. I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to set the historical record straight, but get no consideration whatsoever. Eventually even an extremely patient person is driven to an act of desperation. That kind of commitment and passion should be praised not punished! We need to distinguish between archaeological terrorism (ala the Taliban) and archaeological heroism. There should be intense public pressure to allow the sample to be dated, and to exonerate the imprisoned Egyptians. It is entirely wrong to make examples out of them. Let’s not defend archaeological/historical suppression and the so-called academic scientists who engage in pseudo-science, that is, maintenance of an arbitrary and grossly distorted representation of the ancient world.

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