\u00a9 MRU Rob CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe April 5, 1909 edition of the Arizona Gazette<\/em> featured an article entitled “Explorations in Grand Canyon: Remarkable finds indicate ancient people migrated from Orient.”<\/em> According to the article, the expedition was financed by the Smithsonian Institute and discovered artifacts that would, if verified, stand conventional history on its ear.<\/p>\nInside a cavern “hewn in solid rock by human hands” were found tablets bearing hieroglyphics, copper weapons, statues of Egyptian deities and mummies. Could there actually have been an entire civilization of Egyptians living there? If so, how did they get there?<\/p>\n
Although highly intriguing, the truth of this story is in doubt simply because the site has never been re-found. The Smithsonian disavows all knowledge of the discovery, and several expeditions searching for the cavern have come up empty-handed. Was the article just a hoax?<\/p>\n
“While it cannot be discounted that the entire story is an elaborate newspaper hoax,”<\/em> writes researcher and explorer David Hatcher Childress, “the fact that it was on the front page, named the prestigious Smithsonian Institution, and gave a highly detailed story that went on for several pages, lends a great deal to its credibility. It is hard to believe such a story could have come out of thin air.”<\/em><\/p>\nThe Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring places in the United States. It stretches along 277 miles of the Colorado River, which runs through the bottom of the canyon. The Hopi Indians believe it is the gateway to the afterlife. Its sheer immensity and mystery attracts millions of visitors from around the world every year.<\/p>\n
But what those people probably don’t know is that the Grand Canyon might once have been the home of an entire underground civilization. But where are they now? And why did they abandon the canyon? \u2015 These questions remain a great historical mystery to this day.<\/p>\n
Conclusion:<\/h4>\n
Maybe the ‘Egyptian Treasure in the Grand Canyon’ claim is untrue, because at present there is no basis for it. But how accurate we are about the fact that there was no civilization before 10,500 years ago in Egypt, or that there was no reason other than ‘housing the tomb of the Pharaohs and their families’ behind the construction of the Great Egyptian Sphinx and Pyramids?<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For years, Egyptologists and archaeologists have thought the Great Sphinx of Giza to be about 4,500 years old, dating to around 2500 BC. But that number is just that \u2015 a belief, a theory, not a fact. As Robert Bauval says in The Age of the Sphinx, “there was no inscriptions \u2015 not a single […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":1,"featured_media":6385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[88,152,244,151],"blocksy_meta":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}