Experts suspect that these are traces of the activities of an ancient forgotten civilization.
Could the ancient Egyptians independently build their giant pyramids and palaces? People who have only read about these structures in history books believe: yes. But many of those who have been in this country and wandered, for example, in the Giza valley, doubt. These structures are too impressive, even if tens of thousands of slaves were supposed to work on their construction.
Conan Doyle's version
The theory that the pyramids are material traces of some more ancient technologically advanced civilization has not been put forward today. For example, in 1929, the "father of Sherlock Holmes" Arthur Conan Doyle published a fantasy novel "Maracot's Abyss", the heroes of which find themselves in a city - an island that sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years ago. When one of them inspects the underwater structures, he notes that: “The columns, platforms and staircases of this building surpassed anything I have ever seen on earth. Most of all, the building resembled the remains of the Karnak temple in Luxor, Egypt, and, surprisingly, the decorations and half-erased inscriptions in the details resembled the same decorations and inscriptions of the great ruins near the Nile."
According to Conan Doyle, who, incidentally, visited Egypt before writing this novel, all local ancient structures were built by Atlanteans. And Doyle, according to his contemporaries, like his famous detective hero, had brilliant analytical skills.
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It is not clear what Conan Doyle based his conclusions on. But he now has many followers. For example, the head of the Laboratory of Alternative History, Andrei SKLYAROV, who has been to Egypt several times, claims that most of the local historical monuments were indeed created by representatives of the ancient civilization:
“You can call them Atlanteans, you can call them extraterrestrials, you can call them something else, but their traces in Egypt are incredible. It’s even strange that Egyptologists didn’t pay attention to this before. Although now I have the impression that the Egyptians themselves guess something, but carefully hide the secret.
- If possible, specific examples …
- Please start with the great sphinx. Classical Egyptology claims that it was built during the time of Pharaoh Cheops or his son - about 2.5 thousand years BC - on the basis only of the fact that by its "artistic features" it can be attributed to that era. But even a century and a half ago, the so-called "Inventory Stele" was found in Giza, which indicates that Cheops ordered only to repair the damaged statue. Renovate, not build!
And in the early 90s, the American geologist Robert Schoch proved that the furrows on the body of the sphinx and on the wall of the trench around it are traces of erosion not by wind, but by rain: vertical stripes instead of horizontal ones. But there have been no serious rains in Egypt for at least 8 thousand years.
Immediately after the publication of the Shoh, the Egyptian authorities began an urgent restoration of the sphinx. Now the lower two-thirds of the monument is covered with new masonry, and the top of the sculpture has been cleaned - almost no traces of erosion remain. By the way, at about the same time, the Inventory Stele was also hidden in the storerooms of the Cairo Museum - before that it was put on public display, and now another was put in its place. In response to questions about this stele, the museum caretakers just shrug their shoulders in bewilderment. But it has been repeatedly described in scientific and so-called alternative literature.
When the gods ruled …
According to Andrey Sklyarov, the ancient Egyptians themselves built something. But they built their buildings on the basis of ancient structures.
- It is clearly visible on the pyramids - which are made by hand and which are made with the help of high-precision instruments, says Andrey. “Moreover, many ancient buildings resemble bunkers - semi-underground structures over which the pharaohs built their pyramids, trying to copy the ancients. And the original pyramids, built by pracivilization, were only 6 - 7: three in Giza, two in Dashshur and one in Meduna. Perhaps another one was in Abu Roash, but it is not clear there whether it is a pyramid or a bunker. And other pyramids are ancient structures completed by the pharaohs, which were originally typical bunkers. Moreover, with such powerful overlappings that you cannot call them otherwise than a refuge in the event of a nuclear war. True, it is not clear why and who could threaten them. But the war just explains the disappearance of pracivilization.
- And why, apart from buildings, there are no other material traces left?
- Why not? For example, in the Giza desert, we came across something that looked like iron dust. They took samples and brought them to Moscow. It turned out that this is iron oxide with a high content of manganese. The percentage corresponds to the high-alloy manganese steels that are now used in tank tracks and as material for rock crushing machines. For how many years this extremely strong steel could turn into dust in the desert, where there has been no decent rain for 8 thousand years.
- But what kind of mysterious civilization left us with these artifacts?
- There are different versions. Someone adheres to the theory that they were Atlanteans, someone talks about colonists from other worlds. It is difficult to say when they came to Earth, but the period of their heyday can be determined. At the beginning of the III century BC. e. Egyptian historian Manetho published his "History of Egypt". It has not been completely preserved to our time, but passages are mentioned in the works of other historians of the first millennium of our era. Manetho compiled a chronological list of the country's rulers. Classical Egyptology recognizes only the “dynastic part”, which deals with famous human pharaohs. But Manetho also talks about the first kingdom, when the gods allegedly ruled Egypt. It existed about 10 - 12 thousand years ago, long before the first known pharaohs.
They worked with granite like Styrofoam
- Now Egyptologists spend their time arguing about how the workers turned these multi-ton stone blocks, from which they built pyramids and temples, build versions, conduct experiments, - says Andrey Sklyarov. - We took a different path: if there are millions of tons of stones, then we need to figure out how they were processed. We analyzed many parameters. For example, if they were cut, then we look at the width and depth of the cut, the thickness of the cutting edge. Sometimes the results are amazing.
Slabs of black basalt, located around the perimeter of the temple, standing near the great pyramid (they used to be the floor of an ancient Egyptian temple). You can see the trail of a circular saw, which is known to operate on hydraulic, pneumatic or electric drive, but the Egyptians did not have the first, second, or third.
It is also noticeable that when sawing is grinding. If, as it is believed, the builders worked with hand-held copper saws, then scratches would remain, and modern diamond-coated saws leave a similar grinding, and they must move very quickly at the same time.
Fragment of the obelisk at Karnak. Lies 10 meters from the hiking trail. On it there are strange holes with a diameter of 1 cm and a depth of about 10 cm. Obviously they were made to fix some kind of decorative plates: gold or copper. But some of them go deep into the granite not perpendicularly, but at an angle of 10 - 20 degrees: it is impossible to do this manually. It turns out that they were drilled in granite, as we rotate holes with a drill in soft wood. What kind of drill in the ancient Egyptians could go into granite like oil?
This is an obelisk lying near the famous scarab beetle on the shore of the sacred lake in Karnak. A decorative strip 3 mm wide and 1 cm deep is visible. It is believed that it was scratched with a nail. Jewelers, perhaps, could repeat, carefully cutting, with modern tools.
An artifact from southern Saqqara, where tourists are not allowed. A very revealing block of black basalt. The far part of it has been sawed off: the trace of a circular saw is visible. And they tried to process the other part manually. The difference is immediately visible.
The gate in the still closed part of the Karnak Temple. At the very top, a hole has been made in the granite, believed to be the size of a good barrel for a goalpost. In our world, machines capable of cutting such holes appeared only 10 - 15 years ago.
Aswan quarries. Pits extending several meters deep. The diameter is slightly larger than the width of the human body. How to hammer such holes? Is that standing head down. There are many such pits. According to Egyptologists, they are designed to watch how the cracks go in the main massif. And this is a completely meaningless exercise, because the direction of the cracks can be determined from the surface. And why was it necessary to align the walls so carefully? It looks like a cutter was used here. There is a hypothesis that the builders simply took samples of granite. But such a tool that allowed not to spend a lot of time on these tests. This civilization demonstrates to us that it worked with granite as with Styrofoam.
Andrey MOISEENKO, Photo by Andrey SKLYAROV