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Egyptologists prefer to argue—despite evidence that proves otherwise—that the pyramids are but tombs. Dutch author Willem Zitman ponders why today's scientists do not want to admit that the ancient Greeks were all schooled in ancient Egypt, as they themselves claimed. Instead, he says, they prefer to pretend as if the Greeks discovered everything by themselves and thus they can make claims that the Egyptians did nothing whatsoever to further science or knew nothing of astronomy. Zitman adds that although archaeo- astronomy has been taught as a scientific discipline since 1983, Egypt has hardly been discussed—a notable exception. And it is precisely when such a vacuum is created that it will be filled by theories of the likes of Robert Bauval. If Egyptologists do not like that fact, hey should not blame Bauval... Zitman, a qualified building engineer, also notes that he pyramids themselves are the greatest victim of the current state of Egyptology. He argues that when Egyptologists are confronted with problems to do with building techniques, their shortcomings are easily exposed. This is evident in the treatment of French materials scientist Professor Joseph Davidovits, one of he most respected scientists in his field in the world but who has been labelled an idiot and the like by Egyptologists—and by Hawass in particular. Hawass and others among his colleagues clearly fail to understand anything of what Davidovits is trying to explain to them. As a consequence of this absence of knowledge and unwillingness on the part of Hawass and colleagues to invite experts to help them in this regard, there is little work done on the pyramid era, which has become known as a “lost era". I. E. S. Edwards, a former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, once noted that Egyptologists do not like pyramids. In the end, Hawass does stand for, and sums up, the current state of Egyptology. He blames the likes of West, Bauval and Hancock for making ridiculous statements, but in August 1996—unsurprisingly, while in front of a camera—Hawass was scrambling through a tunnel leading under the Sphinx, stating: "No one really knows what's inside this tunnel. But we are going to open it for the first time."“ This is further evidence that his 2009 statement is a complete and utter distortion— if not of the truth, then at least of what he said before. So, in 1996, there were tunnels. But in April 1999, Hawass appeared on Fox TV—which, as we know from its coverage of President Bush's antics, is not renowned for its neutral or scientific approach—and denied the existence of tunnels going out from the Tomb of Osiris, an underground structure near the Sphinx. In April 2009, he repeated this story, as if he needed to do so once per decade. But, as mentioned, in August 1996 he was actually filmed walking inside a tunnel under the Sphinx! As Bauval points out in Secret Chamber, the controversy involving Hawass and the Giza Plateau dates back many decades: "Meanwhile something unusual happened involving Zahi Hawass. For reasons that are not clear he started a dig in front of the Sphinx temple, apparently in connection with the Institute of Underground Water of the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation. A drilling through some fifty feet [15 metres] of debris struck red granite instead of the natural limestone of the area."” Red granite is not native to the Giza Plateau; the only source is Aswan, hundreds of miles to the south. The very presence of red granite, discovered in 1980 in the vicinity of the Sphinx, proves that there is something underneath the Giza Plateau. And if Hawass says anything different, it should first be seen as a case of “methinketh he protesteth too much". °o About the Author: 7. http:/Avww.dreamscape.com/morgana/hancock.htm Based in the UK, Philip Coppens has contributed 15 8. http:/Avww.drhawass.com/blog/keeping-great-sphinx’s-paws-dry articles to NEXUS, most recently "Gdbekli Tepe: The 9. http/Avww.drhawass.com/blog/sphinx-scientific-update-report World's Oldest Temple" (see 16/04). 10. http/Ainyurl.com/n48wir ; He is the author of several books, including The New 11. http:/Awww.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticlelID=7706 Pyramid Age (2007; reviewed in NEXUS 14/06). He was a a IRS le SECO RINTITERIS. GEE EBS speaker at the 2007 NEXUS Conference in Queensland, 44" a dreamscape.com/morgana/hancock htm Australia. 15. ibid, , Philip Coppens can be contacted by email at 16, ibid. info@philipcoppens.com and via his website 17. Picknett, Lynn and Clive Prince, The Stargate Conspiracy, Little, http://www.philipcoppens.com. Brown & Co., 1999, p. 77 18. http:/Awww.robertbauval.co.ulvarticles/articles/hawass|.html Endnotes 19. http:/politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/page/3/ 1. Bauval, Robert, Secret Chamber: The Quest for the Hall of Records, 20. ibid. Century, London, 1999, p. 195; also see 21. http:/Ainyurl.com/m8397x« http/Avww.robertbauval.co.uk/articles/articles/sc_chapt9.html 22. Milson, Peter (ed.), "Age of the Sphinx" (transcript of program 2. http:/Avww.arce.org/main/about/historyandmission transmitted on 27 November 1994), Broadcasting Support 3. ibid. Services, London, 1994, p. 20 4. http:/Ainyurl.com/rx73ut 23. Bauval, op. cit., p. 198 5. http:/Avww.drhawass.com/blog/keeping-great-sphinx's-paws-dry 24. http:/Avww.dreamscape.com/morgana/hancock.htm 6. http:/Avww.drhawass.com/blog/story-sphinx 25. Bauval, op. cit., p. 194 NEXUS ¢ 49 AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com