Ancient Egyptian Treasures In The Grand Canyon?
Most of us are familiar with the last scene in the popular Indiana Jones
archeological adventure film RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK in which an important
historical artefact, the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple in Jerusalem, is
locked
in a crate and put in a giant warehouse, never to be seen again, thus ensuring
that no history books will have to be rewritten and no history professor will
have to revise the lecture that he has been giving for the last forty years.

While the film was fiction, the scene in which an important ancient relic is
buried in a warehouse is uncomfortably close to reality for many researchers.
To those who investigate allegations of archaeological cover-ups, there are
disturbing indications that the most important archaeological institute in the
United States, the Smithsonian Institute, an independent federal agency, has
been actively suppressing some of the most interesting and important
archaeological discoveries made in the Americas.

The Vatican has been long accused of keeping artefacts and ancient books in
their vast cellars, without allowing the outside world access to them. These
secret treasures, often of a controversial historical or religious nature, are
allegedly suppressed by the Catholic Church because they might damage the
church's credibility, or perhaps cast their official texts in doubt. Sadly,
there
is overwhelming evidence that something very similar is happening with the
Smithsonian Institution.

The cover-up and alleged suppression of archaeological evidence began in late
1881 when John Wesley Powell, the geologist famous for exploring the Grand
Canyon, appointed Cyrus Thomas as the director of the Eastern Mound Division of
the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology.

When Thomas came to the Bureau of Ethnology he was a "pronounced believer in
the existence of a race of Mound Builders, distinct from the American
Indians."

However, John Wesley Powell, the director of the Bureau of Ethnology, a very
sympathetic man toward the American Indians, had lived with the peaceful
Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin for many years as a youth and felt that American
Indians were unfairly thought of as primitive and savage.

The Smithsonian began to promote the idea that Native Americans, at that time
being exterminated in the Indian Wars, were descended from advanced
civilisations and were worthy of respect and protection.

They also began a program of suppressing any archaeological evidence that
lent credence to the school of thought known as Diffusionism, a school which
believes that throughout history there has been widespread dispersion of culture
and civilisation via contact by ship and major trade routes.

The Smithsonian opted for the opposite school, known as Isolationism.
Isolationism holds that most civilisations are isolated from each other and that
there has been very little contact between them, especially those that are
separated by bodies of water. In this intellectual war that started in the
1880s, it
was held that even contact between the civilisations of the Ohio and
Mississippi Valleys were rare, and certainly these civilisations did not have
any
contact with such advanced cultures as the Mayas, Toltecs, or Aztecs in Mexico
and
Central America. By Old World standards this is an extreme, and even
ridiculous idea, considering that the river system reached to the Gulf of Mexico
and
these civilisations were as close as the opposite shore of the gulf. It was like
saying that cultures in the Black Sea area could not have had contact with
the Mediterranean.

When the contents of many ancient mounds and pyramids of the Midwest were
examined, it was shown that the history of the Mississippi River Valleys was
that
of an ancient and sophisticated culture that had been in contact with Europe
and other areas. Not only that, the contents of many mounds revealed burials
of huge men, sometimes seven or eight feet tall, in full armour with swords and
sometimes huge treasures.

(Vangard note..>Eastern Indian texts say that at one time men lived thousands
of years and grew very tall in direct proportion to their age, as does the
Bible with the comment "and there were GIANTS in the earth in those days...")

For instance, when Spiro Mound in Oklahoma was excavated in the 1930's, a
tall man in full armour was discovered along with a pot of thousands of pearls
and other artefacts, the largest such treasure so far documented. The
whereabouts of the man in armour is unknown and it is quite likely that it
eventually
was taken to the Smithsonian Institution.

In a private conversation with a well-known historical researcher (who shall
remain nameless), I was told that a former employee of the Smithsonian, who
was dismissed for defending the view of diffusionism in the Americas (i.e. the
heresy that other ancient civilisations may have visited the shores of North
and South America during the many millenia before Columbus), alleged that the
Smithsonian at one time had actually taken a barge full of unusual artefacts out
into the Atlantic and dumped them in the ocean.

Though the idea of the Smithsonian' covering up a valuable archaeological
find is difficult to accept for some, there is, sadly, a great deal of evidence
to suggest that the Smithsonian Institution has knowingly covered up and 'lost'
important archaeological relics. The STONEWATCH NEWSLETTER of the Gungywamp
Society in Connecticut, which researches megalithic sites in New England, had a
curious story in their Winter 1992 issue about stone coffins discovered in
1892 in Alabama which were sent to the Smithsonian Institution and then 'lost'.
According to the newsletter, researcher Frederick J. Pohl wrote an intriguing
letter in 1950 to the late Dr. T.C. Lethbridge, a British archaeologist.

The letter from Pohl stated, "A professor of geology sent me a reprint (of
the) Smithsonian Institution, THE CRUMF BURIAL CAVE by Frank Burns, US
Geological Survey, from the report of the US National Museum for 1892, pp
451-454,
1984. In the Crumf Cave, southern branch of the Warrior River, in Murphy's
Valley,
Blount County, Alabama, accessible from Mobile Bay by river, were coffins of
wood hollowed out by fire, aided by stone or copper chisels.

Either of these coffins were taken to the Smithsonian. They were about 7.5
feet long, 14" to 18" wide, 6" to 7" deep. Lids open. "I wrote recently to the
Smithsonian, and received a reply March 11th from F.M. Setzler, Head Curator of
Department of Anthropology (He said) 'We have not been able to find the
specimens in our collections, though records show that they were received."

David Barron, President of the Gungywamp Society was eventually told by the
Smithsonian in 1992 that the coffins were actually wooden troughs and that they
could not be viewed anyway because they were housed in an
asbestos-contaminated warehouse. This warehouse was to be closed for the next
ten years and no
one was allowed in except the Smithsonian personnel!

Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent guest on Johnny
Carson's TONIGHT SHOW in the 1960s (usually with an exotic animal with a
pangolin or
a lemur), once related a curious story about a letter he received regarding
an engineer who was stationed on the Aleutian island of Shemya during World War
II. While building an airstrip, his crew bulldozed a group of hills and
discovered under several sedimentary layers what appeared to be human remains.
The
Alaskan mound was in fact a graveyard of gigantic human remains, consisting of
crania and long leg bones.

The crania measured from 22 to 24 inches from base to crown. Since an adult
skull normally measures about eight inches from back to front, such a large
crania would imply an immense size for a normally proportioned human.
Furthermore, every skull was said to have been neatly trepanned (a process of
cutting a
hole in the upper portion of the skull).

In fact, the habit of flattening the skull of an infant and forcing it to
grow in an elongated shape was a practice used by ancient Peruvians, the Mayas,
and the Flathead Indians of Montana. Sanderson tried to gather further proof,
eventually receiving a letter from another member of the unit who confirmed the
report. The letters both indicated that the Smithsonian Institution had
collected the remains, yet nothing else was heard. Sanderson seemed convinced
that
the Smithsonian Institution had received the bizarre relics, but wondered why
they would not release the data. He asks, "...is it that these people cannot
face rewriting all the textbooks?"

In 1944 an accidental discovery of an even more controversial nature was made
by Waldemar Julsrud at Acambaro, Mexico. Acambaro is in the state of
Guanajuato, 175 miles northwest of Mexico City. The strange archaeological site
there
yielded over 33,500 objects of ceramic;stone, including jade; and knives of
obsidian (sharper than steel and still used today in heart surgery). Jalsrud, a
prominent local German merchant, also found statues ranging from less than an
inch to six feet in length depicting great reptiles, some of them in ACTIVE
ASSOCIATION with humans - generally eating them, but in some bizarre statuettes
an erotic association was indicated. To observers many of these creatures
resembled dinosaurs.

Jalsrud crammed this collection into twelve rooms of his expanded house.
There startling representations of Negroes, Orientals, and bearded Caucasians
were
included as were motifs of Egyptians, Sumerian and other ancient
non-hemispheric civilisations, as well as portrayals of Bigfoot and aquatic
monsterlike
creatures, weird human-animal mixtures, and a host of other inexplicable
creations. Teeth from an extinct Ice Age horse, the skeleton of a mammoth, and a
number of human skulls were found at the same site as the ceramic artefacts.

Radio-carbon dating in the laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania and
additional tests using the thermoluminescence method of dating pottery were
performed to determine the age of the objects. Results indicated the objects
were made about 6,500 years ago, around 4,500 BC. A team of experts at another
university, shown Jalrud's half-dozen samples but unaware of their origin,
ruled out the possibility that they could have been modern reproductions.
However,
they fell silent when told of their controversial source.

In 1952, in an effort to debunk this weird collection which was gaining a
certain amount of fame, American archaeologist Charles C. DiPeso claimed to have
minutely examined the then 32,000 pieces within not more than four hours spent
at the home of Julsrud. In a forthcoming book, long delayed by continuing
developments in his investigation, archaeological investigator John H. Tierney,
who has lectured on the case for decades, points out that to have done that
DiPeso would have had to have inspected 133 pieces per minute steadily for four
hours, whereas in actuality, it would have required weeks merely to have
separated the massive jumble of exhibits and arranged them properly for a valid
evaluation.

Tierney, who collaborated with the later Professor Hapgood, the late William
N. Russell, and others in the investigation, charges that the Smithsonian
Institution and other archaeological authorities conducted a campaign of
disinformation against the discoveries. The Smithsonian had, early in the
controversy,
dismissed the entire Acambaro collection as an elaborate hoax. Also, utilising
the Freedom of Information Act, Tierney discovered that practically the
entirety of the Smithsonian's Julsrud case files are missing.

After two expeditions to the site in 1955 and 1968, Professor Charles
Hapgood, a professor of history and anthropology at the University of New
Hampshire,
recorded the results of his 18-year investigation of Acambaro in a privately
printed book entitled MYSTERY IN ACAMBARO. Hapgood was initially an open-minded
skeptic concerning the collection but became a believer after his first visit
in 1955, at which time he witnessed some of the figures being excavated and
even dictated to the diggers where he wanted them to dig.

Adding to the mind-boggling aspects of this controversy is the fact that the
Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, through the late Director of
PreHispanic Monuments, Dr. Eduardo Noguera, (who, as head of an official
investigating team at the site, issued a report which Tierney will be
publishing),
admitted "the apparent scientific legality with which these objects wer found."
Despite evidence of their own eyes, however, officials declared that because
of the objects 'fantastic' nature, they had to have been a hoax played on
Julsrud!

A disappointed but ever-hopeful Julsrud died. His house was sold and the
collection put in storage. The collection is not currently open to the public.

Perhaps the most amazing suppression of all is the excavation of an Egyptian
tomb by the Smithsonian itself in Arizona. A lengthy front page story of the
PHOENIX GAZETTE on 5 April 1909 (follows this article), gave a highly detailed
report of the discovery and excavation of a rock-cut vault by an expedition
led by a Professor S.A. Jordan of the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian, however,
claims to have absolutely no knowledge of the discovery or its discoverers.

The World Explorers Club decided to check on this story by calling the
Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., though we felt there was little chance of
getting
any real information. After speaking briefly to an operator, we were
transferred to a Smithsonian staff archaeologist, and a woman's voice came on
the phone
and identified herself.

I told her that I was investigating a story from a 1909 Phoenix newspaper
article about the Smithsonian Institution's having excavated rock-cut vaults in
the Grand Canyon where Egyptian artefacts had been discovered, and whether the
Smithsonian Institution could give me any more information on the subject.

"Well, the first thing I can tell you, before we go any further," she said,
"is that no Egyptian artefacts of any kind have ever been found in North or
South America. Therefore, I can tell you that the Smithsonian Institute has
never
been involved in any such excavations." She was quite helpful and polite but,
in the end, knew nothing. Neither she nor anyone else with whom I spoke could
find any record of the discovery or either G.E. Kinkaid and Professor S.A.
Jordan.

While it cannot be discounted that the entire story is an elaborate newspaper
hoax, 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.

Is the Smithsonian Institution covering up an archaeological discovery of
immense importance? If this story is true it would radically change the current
view that there was no transoceanic contact in pre-Columbian times, and that
all American Indians, on both continents, are descended from Ice Age explorers
who came across the Bering Strait. (Any information on G.E. Kinkaid and
Professor S.A. Jordan, or their alleged discoveries, that readers may have would
be
greatly appreciated.....write to Childress at the World Explorers Club at the
above address.)

Is the idea that ancient Egyptians came to the Arizona area in the ancient
past so objectionable and preposterous that it must be covered up? Perhaps the
Smithsonian Institution is more interested in maintaining the status quo than
rocking the boat with astonishing new discoveries that overturn previously
accepted academic teachings.

Historian and linguist Carl Hart, editor of WORLD EXPLORER, then obtained a
hiker's map of the Grand Canyon from a bookstore in Chicago. Poring over the
map, we were amazed to see that much of the area on the north side of the canyon
has Egyptian names. The area around Ninety-four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek
had areas (rock formations, apparently) with names like Tower of Set, Tower of
Ra, Horus Temple, Osiris Temple, and Isis Temple. In the Haunted Canyon area
were such names as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple,
Manu Temple and Shiva Temple. Was there any relationship between these places
and
the alleged Egyptian discoveries in the Grand Canyon?

We called a state archaeologist at the Grand Canyon, and were told that the
early explorers had just liked Egyptian and Hindu names, but that it was true
that this area was off limits to hikers or other visitors, "because of
dangerous caves."

Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names in the Grand
Canyon is a forbidden zone - no one is allowed into this large area.

We could only conclude that this was the area where the vaults were located.
Yet today, this area is curiously off-limits to all hikers and even, in large
part, park personnel.

I believe that the discerning reader will see that if only a small part of
the "Smithsoniangate" evidence is true, then our most hallowed archaeological
institution has been actively involved in suppressing evidence for advanced
American cultures, evidence for ancient voyages of various cultures to North
America, evidence for anomalistic giants and other oddball artefacts, and
evidence
that tends to disprove the official dogma that is now the history of North
America.

The Smithsonian's Board of Regents still refuses to open its meetings to the
news media or the public. If Americans were ever allowed inside the 'nation's
attic', as the Smithsonian has been called, what skeletons might they find?
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from the front page of THE PHOENIX GAZETTE of April 5th, 1909

EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON
Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern being brought to light
Jordan is enthused
Remarkable finds indicate ancient people migrated from Orient

The latest news of the progress of the explorations of what is now regarded
by scientists as not only the oldest archeological discovery in the United
States, but one of the most valuable in the world, which was mentioned some time
ago in the Gazette, was brought to the city yesterday by G.E. Kinkaid, the
explorer who found the great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon during a
trip
from Green River, Wyoming, down the Colorado, in a wooden boat, to Yuma,
several months ago.

According to the story related to the Gazette by Mr. Kinkaid, the
archaelogists of the Smithsonian Institute, which is financing the expeditions,
have made
discoveries which almost conclusively prove that the race which inhabited
this mysterious cavern, hewn in solid rock by human hands, was of oriental
origin, possibly from Egypt, tracing back to Ramses. If their theories are borne
out
by the translation of the tablets engraved with heiroglyphics, the mystery of
the prehistoric peoples of North America, their ancient arts, who they were
and whence they came, will be solved. Egypt and the Nile, and Arizona and the
Colorado will be linked by a historical chain running back to ages which
staggers the wildest fancy of the fictionist.

A Thorough Examination

Under the direction of Prof. S. A. Jordan, the Smithsonian Institute is now
prosecuting the most thorough explorations, which will be continued until the
last link in the chain is forged. Nearly a mile underground, about 1480 feet
below the surface, the long main passage has been delved into, to find another
mammoth chamber from which radiates scores of passageways, like the spokes of a
wheel.

Several hundred rooms have been discovered, reached by passageways running
from the main passage, one of them having been explored for 854 feet and another
634 feet. The recent finds include articles which have never been known as
native to this country, and doubtless they had their origin in the orient. War
weapons, copper instruments, sharp-edged and hard as steel, indicate the high
state of civilization reached by these strange people. So interested have the
scientists become that preparations are being made to equip the camp for
extensive studies, and the force will be increased to thirty or forty persons.

Mr. Kinkaid's Report

Mr. Kinkaid was the first white child born in Idaho and has been an explorer
and hunter all his life, thirty years having been in the service of the
Smithsonian Institute. Even briefly recounted, his history sounds fabulous,
almost
grotesque.

"First, I would impress that the cavern is nearly inaccessible. The entrance
is 1,486 feet down the sheer canyon wall. It is located on government land and
no visitor will be allowed there under penalty of trespass. The scientists
wish to work unmolested, without fear of archeological discoveries being
disturbed by curio or relic hunters.

A trip there would be fruitless, and the visitor would be sent on his way.
The story of how I found the cavern has been related, but in a paragraph: I was
journeying down the Colorado river in a boat, alone, looking for mineral. Some
forty-two miles up the river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon, I saw on the
east wall, stains in the sedimentary formation about 2,000 feet above the river
bed. There was no trail to this point, but I finally reached it with great
difficulty.

Above a shelf which hid it from view from the river, was the mouth of the
cave. There are steps leading from this entrance some thirty yards to what was,
at the time the cavern was inhabited, the level of the river. When I saw the
chisel marks on the wall inside the entrance, I became interested, securing my
gun and went in. During that trip I went back several hundred feet along the
main passage till I came to the crypt in which I discovered the mummies. One of
these I stood up and photographed by flashlight. I gathered a number of
relics, which I carried down the Colorado to Yuma, from whence I shipped them to
Washington with details of the discovery. Following this, the explorations were
undertaken.

The Passages

"The main passageway is about 12 feet wide, narrowing to nine feet toward the
farther end. About 57 feet from the entrance, the first side-passages branch
off to the right and left, along which, on both sides, are a number of rooms
about the size of ordinary living rooms of today, though some are 30 by 40 feet
square. These are entered by oval-shaped doors and are ventilated by round
air spaces through the walls into the passages. The walls are about three feet
six inches in thickness.

The passages are chiseled or hewn as straight as could be laid out by an
engineer. The ceilings of many of the rooms converge to a center. The
side-passages near the entrance run at a sharp angle from the main hall, but
toward the
rear they gradually reach a right angle in direction.

The Shrine

"Over a hundred feet from the entrance is the cross-hall, several hundred
feet long, in which are found the idol, or image, of the people's god, sitting
cross-legged, with a lotus flower or lily in each hand. The cast of the face is
oriental, and the carving this cavern. The idol almost resembles Buddha,
though the scientists are not certain as to what religious worship it
represents.
Taking into consideration everything found thus far, it is possible that this
worship most resembles the ancient people of Tibet.

Surrounding this idol are smaller images, some very beautiful in form; others
crooked-necked and distorted shapes, symbolical, probably, of good and evil.
There are two large cactus with protruding arms, one on each side of the dais
on which the god squats. All this is carved out of hard rock resembling
marble. In the opposite corner of this cross-hall were found tools of all
descriptions, made of copper. These people undoubtedly knew the lost art of
hardening
this metal, which has been sought by chemicals for centuries without result. On
a bench running around the workroom was some charcoal and other material
probably used in the process. There is also slag and stuff similar to matte,
showing that these ancients smelted ores, but so far no trace of where or how
this
was done has been discovered, nor the origin of the ore.

"Among the other finds are vases or urns and cups of copper and gold, made
very artistic in design. The pottery work includes enameled ware and glazed
vessels. Another passageway leads to granaries such as are found in the oriental
temples. They contain seeds of various kinds. One very large storehouse has not
yet been entered, as it is twelve feet high and can be reached only from
above. Two copper hooks extend on the edge, which indicates that some sort of
ladder was attached. These granaries are rounded, as the materials of which they
are constructed, I think, is a very hard cement. A gray metal is also found in
this cavern, which puzzles the scientists, for its identity has not been
established. It resembles platinum. Strewn promiscuously over the floor
everywhere
are what people call "cats eyes', a yellow stone of no great value. Each one
is engraved with the head of the Malay type.

The Hieroglyphics

"On all the urns, or walls over doorways , and tablets of stone which were
found by the image are the mysterious hieroglyphics, the key to which the
Smithsonian Institute hopes yet to discover. The engraving on the tables
probably
has something to do with the religion of the people. Similar hieroglyphics have
been found in southern Arizona. Among the pictorial writings, only two animals
are found. One is of prehistoric type.

The Crypt

"The tomb or crypt in which the mummies were found is one of the largest of
the chambers, the walls slanting back at an angle of about 35 degrees. On these
are tiers of mummies, each one occupying a separate hewn shelf. At the head
of each is a small bench, on which is found copper cups and pieces of broken
swords. Some of the mummies are covered with clay, and all are wrapped in a bark
fabric.

The urns or cups on the lower tiers are crude, while as the higher shelves
are reached, the urns are finer in design, showing a later stage of
civilization. It is worthy of note that all the mummies examined so far have
proved to be
male, no children or females being buried here. This leads to the belief that
this exterior section was the warriors' barracks.

"Among the discoveries no bones of animals have been found, no skins, no
clothing, no bedding. Many of the rooms are bare but for water vessels. One
room,
about 40 by 700 feet, was probably the main dining hall, for cooking utensils
are found here. What these people lived on is a problem, though it is presumed
that they came south in the winter and farmed in the valleys, going back
north in the summer.

Upwards of 50,000 people could have lived in the caverns comfortably. One
theory is that the present Indian tribes found in Arizona are descendants of the
serfs or slaves of the people which inhabited the cave. Undoubtedly a good
many thousands of years before the Christian era, a people lived here which
reached a high stage of civilization. The chronology of human history is full of
gaps. Professor Jordan is much enthused over the discoveries and believes that
the find will prove of incalculable value in archeological work.

"One thing I have not spoken of, may be of interest. There is one chamber of
the passageway to which is not ventilated, and when we approached it a deadly,
snaky smell struck us. Our light would not penetrate the gloom, and until
stronger ones are available we will not know what the chamber contains. Some say
snakes, but other boo-hoo this idea and think it may contain a deadly gas or
chemicals used by the ancients. No sounds are heard, but it smells snaky just
the same. The whole underground installation gives one of shaky nerves the
creeps. The gloom is like a weight on one's shoulders, and our flashlights and
candles only make the darkness blacker. Imagination can revel in conjectures and
ungodly daydreams back through the ages that have elapsed till the mind reels
dizzily in space."

An Indian Legend

In connection with this story, it is notable that among the Hopi Indians the
tradition is told that their ancestors once lived in an underworld in the
Grand Canyon till dissension arose between the good and the bad, the people of
one
heart and the people of two hearts. Machetto, who was their chief, counseled
them to leave the underworld, but there was no way out. The chief then caused
a tree to grow up and pierce the roof of the underworld, and then the people
of one heart climbed out. They tarried by Paisisvai (Red River), which is the
Colorado, and grew grain and corn.

They sent out a message to the Temple of the Sun, asking the blessing of
peace, good will and rain for people of one heart. That messenger never
returned,
but today at the Hopi villages at sundown can be seen the old men of the tribe
out on the housetops gazing toward the sun, looking for the messenger. When
he returns, their lands and ancient dwelling place will be restored to them.
That is the tradition.

Among the engravings of animals in the cave is seen the image of a heart over
the spot where it is located. The legend was learned by W.E. Rollins, the
artist, during a year spent with the Hopi Indians.

There are two theories of the origin of the Egyptians. One is that they came
from Asia; another that the racial cradle was in the upper Nile region.
Heeren, an Egyptologist, believed in the Indian origin of the Egyptians. The
discoveries in the Grand Canyon may throw further light on human evolution and
prehistoric ages.

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