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However, the experts claim that there is no chamber and if there —_ ous door in the 65 metre shaft is opened, or when an endoscope is should be one, it contains nothing since "robbers have long ago _ slipped through the small opening at the lower right-hand rim of cleaned out all the chambers".* the door. How else can I believe the reports of the Farpaegios The rubbish fed to the public by the experts is hard to believe. otherwise? Perhaps one of them can explain to us how the robbers managed to Mr von Daniken’s first book, Chariots of the Gods?, published crawl into a shaft 20 centimetres wide. Just measure 20cm on in 1968, was an immediate best seller. Since then he has written your ruler! The grave robbers must have had intelligent snakes 20 other books in the ancient astronaut field, all of which have that could crawl up the 65-metre-long tunnel! And finally, at their been best sellers, but his latest books have not been translated into goal, the alleged grave robbers either did not even open the door, English. His books have sold almost 57 million copies throughout or if they did, they politely closed it again. the world. Mr von Daniken is enjoying a resurgence of popularity We do not know of any other access to the clearly seen door 48 a result of his highly successful, year-long TV series currently and, if there is one, the matter would be even more embarrassing being shown in Europe. He continues to set a fast pace with his for the Egyptologists. This, you see, would mean that there arc travelling, lecturing and writing, Producing a new book each year. more tunnels, Then there is the variant that the grave robbers pre- /Ye operates the Ancient Astronaut Society's office in Switzerland pared an access for themselves from the outside. This again and oversees publication of the German edition of Ancient Skies. would mean that an accessible tunnel would have to have been His address is Baselstrasse 1, 4532 Feldbrunnen/SO, Switzerland. hacked through, but as everyone knows, the south wall of the | References: pyramid has been intact for thousands of years. . 1. Yoshimura, S., "Non-destructive Pyramid Investigation by Electromagnetic The more I think about the success of the modest, unassuming, _| Wave Method", Waseda University, Tokyo, 1987. clean-cut, hard-working Mr Gantenbrink who designed the robot, | 2. "Portcullis Blocks Robot in Pyramid", The Daily Telegraph, London, 7 the more angered I become about the behaviour of the experts. | April 1993. Once again there is a mystery lingering. Once again the public is _ | 3. Telex, Reuter and SDA, 16 April 1993. excluded. The idea that the pyramid does not contain anything but | 4. "The Great Pyramid Mystery", Mail on Saturday, London, 17 April 1993. the known passages and rooms, originates from the same experts. wae May Solve Pyramid Riddle", The Times, London, 17 There is a lack of courage to admit that they made ‘There is 6. “Intact Chamber Found in the Great Pyramid", The Independent, London, also a lack of will to make archaeological discoveries known to | 14 April 1993 the public. The Great Pyramid is not the property of some archae- 7. “Discovery at Pyramid was Accidental", The Independent, London, 16 ologists. It and all other constructions of early history belong to | April 1993. all of mankind which has a right to rapid, extensive and honest _| 8. von Daniken, Erich, Die Augen der Sphinx (The Eyes of the Sphinx), information. Don't my friends from Egyptology realise that they | Munich, 1989. become less credible with each game of hide-and-seck they play? —_| 9. al-Makrizi, Das Pyramidenkapitet in al-Makrizi's ‘Hitat’ (The Pyramid That people won't believe them any more, even if the chamber _ | Chapter in al-Makriai's ‘Hitat}), translated by Erich Graefe, Leipzig, 1911. proves to be empty? I would like to be present when that mysteri- 10. Tompiks, Peter, Cheops, Bern, 1975. 52¢NEXUS FEBRUARY - MARCH 1994 a em ee,