Zahi Hawass Coming to A.R.E.
By John Van Auken
Except for the fictional Indiana Jones, Dr. Zahi Hawass is the best-known archaeologist in the world, and is certainly the most powerful. As Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities he oversees perhaps the greatest archaeological lands and monuments on the planet, which includes the last of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Great Pyramid of Egypt. He is the spokesman for CNN on archaeological news in Egypt, and in 2006, he received an Emmy for a special on ancient Egypt. He will be one of the featured speakers at the A.R.E.’s annual Ancient Mysteries conference, October 8-10, 2010
In 1974, at 27 years of age, Zahi Hawass met Mark Lehner, and the two became life-long friends and colleagues. It was Lehner who introduced Hawass to the Edgar Cayce Egyptian information. Years later, both men went on to get their PhDs in archaeology, Lehner at Yale University and Hawass at the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbright Fellow.
In a recent article Hawass recalled hearing this information for the first time: “Cayce announced that in a previous life he had lived in Atlantis, and that when the island sank he took the technology of the Atlanteans to Egypt where he buried the records of his people in a box below the right paw of the sphinx. This room became known as the Hall of Records. I did not share Mark’s beliefs, but I still respected him and we became friends.” Obviously Hawass didn’t get the story exactly right but he got the gist.
Always researchers, these two men continued to search and discover many fascinating new bits of Egyptian data. In 1986 Lehner removed material from between the massive stones of the Great Pyramid and had the material carbon-dated. The Giza pyramids were originally covered by smooth, white limestone casing stones. Today these are gone (except for small areas), exposing the building blocks underneath the former casing. Lehner sent the material found between the building stones to two different labs. The labs reported that the material collected from the upper portion of the Great Pyramid was older than that from the lower portion and dated 288 to 1,244 years older than the standard archaeological date of 2560 BC! Was the pyramid built upside down, top first then the bottom? How could the upper material be older than the lower? Well, one answer is that the Great Pyramid’s upper casing stones were gone in ancient times and that’s when this material became imbedded between the building stones. Later, the lower casing stones were removed, and the material there dates younger than the upper level.
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This dating problem grew when a stele in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, known as the “Inventory Stele,” was discovered to contain an inscription by Khufu (also known as Cheops), who is supposed to have built the Great Pyramid. The inscription actually states that Khufu built the Isis Temple “beside the sphinx as mistress of the pyramid.” Clearly, Khufu indicates that the Great Pyramid and Sphinx were already built when his regime built the Isis Temple. Therefore, the date for when the carbon-dated materials became imbedded between the building stones is the time of Khufu, and indicates that the Great Pyramid was already thousands of years old. A bit of data that supports Cayce’s dates.Together they took on these new findings, refuting each one and holding to the accepted line – at least in public. In private, both retained open minds and continued to keep their eyes alert for any evidence that Cayce was right. For example, they recently drilled underneath the Sphinx to check for damage from a rising water table. But they did not need to drill directly under the Sphinx to test the water table. Lingering somewhere in their minds had to be Cayce’s claim that there is a chamber beneath the Sphinx, and a hallway from this chamber to the Hall of Records where the Atlantean stone tablets are stored for future generations to find and wonder over. Both claim that their drillings did not find any chamber, but once again we are missing the whole truth. They did not drill deep enough. As the Cayce readings predicted, the Hall of Records will not be found until the time and the people are right.
(This article excerpted from the July-September 2010 issue of Venture Inward, available exclusively to A.R.E. members online at EdgarCayce.org/members.)
By Mitch Horowitz
Reviewed by Mark Thurston, PhD is author of The Essential Edgar Cayce and 18 other books about
personal spirituality.
Mitch Horowitz’s Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our
Nation should be required reading for anyone who aspires to be an informed practitioner of personal
spirituality in the modern age. Even the most experienced and well-read among us is sure to learn a
considerable amount from this carefully researched and thoughtfully presented study of esoteric
traditions and their part in shaping the mindset of 21st-century America. Read the rest of the article
Edgar Cayce Team Finds Ancient Passageways – Underground Caves Beneath the Pyramids
This exciting new discovery actually began in 2002 when the British Museum needed to relocate its library
and archives of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. During the move, memoirs of Henry Salt,
British Consul General in Egypt from 1816 until his death in 1827, were rediscovered. Some extracts had
been published in the early 1800s, but it was only when the British Museum reproduced the complete work
in The Sphinx Revealed, A Forgotten Record of Pioneering Excavations that Salt’s amazing exploration of
catacombs under the Giza Plateau were fully understood. Read the rest of the article