Our Cosmic Ancestors (11 page)

used also in the valley of the Indus River in Pakistan. Measured with that foot, the Mykerinos Pyramid also corresponds exactly to the sacred triangle proportions and is about 22 per cent in surface and 11 per cent in volume of the Great Pyramid.

Why did Mykerinos build such a modest pyramid? Legends tell us that he wanted to be the 'king of the people' and was disgusted with the luxury and cruelty of both his father and his uncle. To show the difference, he chose a small foot as standard for his monument instead of the royal cubit and picked a unit of length that was very ancient and half-forgotten. Mykerinos died very young after a reign of only eighteen years and it was probably his son Shepseskaf who finished the pyramid. The lower part is clad in red granite, and since the outer covering of pyramids was always done starting from the top while all the working ramps and scaffoldings were still in place, the bottom was the last part added to the Pyramid of Mykerinos, after his death.

Both the Kephren and Mykerinos pyramids are so perfect in their simple mathematical proportions that nobody seemed to pay much attention to them until one of the world's most prominent nuclear physicists, the 1968 Nobel prize winner Professor Luis W. Alvarez, of Berkeley, California, proposed to use cosmic rays to discover the hidden passages and secret chambers that everybody hoped to find in the Kephren pyramid. His plan looked very promising. Cosmic rays, discovered in 1911 by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess, would show a higher intensity if they encountered hollow passages on their way through the pyramids, and those changes would be registered by the most modern devices and analysed by computer.

Alvarez had the full cooperation of the Egyptian government. He had all the equipment he could dream of, and the archaeological frater

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Pyramid of Kephren
Original dimensions in metres and yards

Edge : 209.185 metres ; base area : 46,332 square
metres ; volume : 2,216,240 cubic metres

With the foundation, the volume was rounded to 2.268.000 cubic metres or 7/8 of that of the Pyramid of Cheops.

The volumes of both pyramids were exact fractions of the volume of the Earth of 108,864 x 10
¹⁶
cubic metres. nity was positive Alvarez would solve the secrets of the pyramids just as they had been sure carbon dating would unlock the Mayan mysteries.

A cosmic ray detector was installed in the inner chamber of the Kephren pyramid, which Alvarez had chosen because of its simpler structure. The general idea was to find the historical archives and scientific data hidden by the ancient Egyptian priests. Since cosmic rays penetrate even in the deepest mines and go through lead shields, the search was expected to be easy. The detector was turned in different directions to take two million readings of cosmic ray intensity changes throughout the pyramid, and the readings, registered on magnetic tape, were fed into a computer for analysis.

A modern computer installed in Cairo did the analyzing - and out came a lot of garbled nonsense. The cosmic rays were registered all right, but heavy interference from an unknown radiation source in the pyramid covered the cosmic rays with such great density that regular readings and interpretations were impossible. Not even the faces or edges could be distinguished and there was not a chance to find hidden chambers. it was a complete scientific failure.

All the equipment was dismantled and checked out again and again, and it worked fine everywhere except inside the Kephren pyramid, no matter how hard they tried, Nobody could explain it; and finally, after several futile attempts to remedy the situation, Professor Alvarez gave up and returned to California to do something more useful and controllable.

As impossible and improbable as it may seem, apparently the ancient Egyptians must have been capable of predicting the future and set up radiation barriers against us, impenetrable even to electronic scouting. It looks as if some space astronauts thousands of years ago had installed electromagnetic radiation sources in at least one of the pyramids or their vicinity just to prevent the electronic devices of later generations from discovering their hidden secrets.

Another possibility, of course, is that the radiations, which many persons who spent time in pyramids or even near them claim to have felt physically, are from beacons radiating signals for astronauts in space. In any case, if indeed there is radiation, it will be possible sooner or later for us to detect it and to identify its source. For me

it seems only a question of time, considering the crowds of archaeologists and other scientists from all around the world exploring the pyramids.

The interest is immense just because these secrets seem to be so well guarded. The more valuable the treasure is, the better hidden it should be. Some believe these treasures will be a fortune in gold and diamonds, but it seems much more probable that what will be found some day will be hieroglyphs inscribed on gold plates containing the whole history of man, including the true secrets of our terrestrial
nr
astral past. And if that is so, the scientific and historical w)I• the records will far surpass that of the metal they are written on, even if the plates were made out of platinum.

In the museum of Father Crespi in Cuenca, Ecuador, visitors can see a heavy, solid-gold plate covered with hieroglyphs not yet deciphered and this plate could contain some secrets. It seems that similar plates are still hidden in caves around Cuenca, but it is difficult to obtain reliable information about this treasure and may be better not to talk about it before seeing it.

Legends tell us that when the Spaniards invaded their land, the Aztecs hid all their precious artifacts in caves and, as the story goes, the most valuable treasure consisted of fifty-two solid gold tablets engraved with all the history and science of the Aztec culture. It would be surprising if the Egyptians, whose land was invaded so many times by Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabs, would not have done a good job hiding their most precious treasures. Herodotus, the father of history himself, claimed that the Egyptian priests of Sais, in Lower Egypt, told him of a secret chamber lower than the level of the Nile River that would flood automatically if intruders tried to gain access to it.

In 1837 a British civil engineer, John Perring, dug down deep inside the Great Pyramid into hard rock to find the hidden chamber, but his digging was not deep enough and he found nothing. If a hidden room exists, it could have very interesting contents. Among other items, it could conceivably hide the resting place of the very first pharaoh of celestial origin and also, no doubt, a freeze generator and an electromagnetic radiation source of some kind, all probably powered by changing water levels of the Nile, the cause of which for the Egyptians was the star Sothis, their name for Sirius.

Geometry of the Sphinx and pyramids showing the possible position of an underground temple

Point
P
could be the location of an underground temple containing the astronomical and mathematical secrets of the ancient Egyptians or their ancestors.

As we saw from the experiences of Alvarez, some radiation source exists under
the
Pyramid of Kephren and it is very probable that the hidden chamber of the priests is no figment of imagination. An indication in favour of this suspicion is the fact that no historical, scientific, or astrological documents of the ancient Egyptian priests have ever been found, even though the search goes on with the full approval of the Egyptian government, which is eager to have more of the country's glorious past discovered and revealed to the world.

Of course, modern technology plays the most important part in these archaeological explorations. Infrared photography by plane and satellite has revealed hundreds of ancient sites buried for millennia in desert sand. One single infrared photograph taken during one of the first Apollo space missions in the 1960s uncovered more than one thousand towns, villages, canals, and highways under the desert. What can be glimpsed from space is merely the tip of the iceberg, but we can be sure that with our modern technical means much more will be discovered very soon. The methods of search are developing fast and successfully.

Meanwhile we can discover a few things just by contemplation and reflection. When I was in Egypt studying the alignment of different monuments, I was struck by the different angle of each addition to buildings that had been made over long periods of time. Thus the temple at Karnak, adjacent to Luxor, larger than the cathedrals of Milan, Rome, & Paris together, has been elongated on three occasions with new sections. The change in the longitudinal axis between the first and the last added sections is 15
^°
. And it's not hard to determine why.

We know that, unlike many other calendars, the Egyptian calendar was not based on movements of the Sun, the Moon, or even the planets Jupiter and Saturn, but on apparent motions of the star Sirius. This celestial reference point moves by 1
^°
every 72 years, so that 15
^°
correspond to 1,080 years, or 3 times 360. That tells us that the temple at Karnak was realigned with the star Sirius once every 360 years, so that the priests could maintain their line of vision on certain stars or constellations on certain days of the solar year.

One thousand and eighty years is one-tenth of the great year of the Babylonians and the Hindus, and the 108-year cycle of the Rosicrucians is one-hundredth of the 10,800-year Great Cycle. This international fraternity, devoted to the application of religious mysticism to modern life, alternates its secret activities with public action every 108 years. So it was secret from 1807 until 1915 and will close its present public period in 2023.

To come back to the hidden treasures of the pharaohs, let's examine the map of Giza, a western suburb of Cairo, where the three pyramids and the Sphinx are situated. The diagonals of the Cheops and Kephren pyramids both run on the same axis northeast to southwest, and one of the diagonals of the Mykerinos Pyramid cuts the alignment of the other two pyramids at a given point P. When we observe now the geometrical centre of the Sphinx, we find that it can be aligned with the southern face of the Kephren Pyramid, which has its special significance.

More importantly, however, another alignment at an angle of 15
^°
with the central axis of the Sphinx cuts the extensions of the diagonals of all the three pyramids at the same point P that we found above. It could be a coincidence, but if I were looking for the lost treasures of ancient Egypt, P is the spot where I would start digging first.

Inside of the Cheops pyramid, a team of French scientists has recently done some research with gravity-sensitive equipment to find new chambers in the pyramid. Another Japanese team has done the same thing with very high frequency radiations which can penetrate the walls. And strangely enough, both teams have detected the same spots where there could be empty chambers behind the walls, so there is still some hope after all.

THE MALTESE CROSS

Ethnologists consider the Aegean Sea, between Greece, the Island of Crete, and Turkey to be the cradle of our Western civilization that started 4,000 years ago as the Cretan and Mycenaean cultures. Everybody knows that. But few are aware that 5,000 years before Crete and Mycenae prospered, civilized people lived in small villages and towns of Anatolia in Turkey and places like Dorak in the northern part of Anatolia, which were famous before Troy was built. The tools and weapons of these people were made of obsidian, a black volcanic glass that they also polished into mirrors. Cattle were raised and cereals grown there 9,000 years ago.

How could the inhabitants of this region become civilized so early? We can find the answer if we are willing to accept the discovery that these early humans used even more surprising Knowledge than animal husbandry and agriculture, namely, astronomy and mathematics.