Another depiction of an ancient 'light bulb'
In contrast to mainstream interpretations, there is an alternative hypothesis according to which the reliefs depict Ancient Egyptian electrical technology, based on comparison to similar modern devices (such as Geissler tubes, Crookes tubes, and arc lamps). J. N. Lockyer's passing reference to a colleague's humorous suggestion that electric lamps would explain the absence of lampblack deposits in the tombs has sometimes been forwarded as an argument supporting this particular interpretation (another argument being made is the use of a system of reflective mirrors). What is actually being represented is unclear. However, there is also an ancient zodiac at Dendera.
Copy of the Dendera Zodiac - the original was taken by Napoleon
The sculptured Dendera Zodiac is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor Temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and the Libra (the scales). This chapel was begun in the late Ptolemaic period. The pronaos was added by the emperor Tiberius. This led Jean-François Champollion to date the relief correctly to the Greco-Roman period, but most of his contemporaries believed it to be of the New Kingdom. The relief, which John H. Rogers characterized as "the only complete map that we have of an ancient sky," has been conjectured to represent the basis on which later astronomy systems were based. (45) It is believed by some researchers that the Dendera Zodiac could be a copy of a much earlier one, and that astrology and astronomy first developed after the great cataclysm of about 12,000 years ago, due to the fear that such an event from the sky may repeat itself.
Somewhat near to Dendera is Abydos. The Abydos ‘Helicopter’ (a.k.a. Abydos Submarine, Abydos Jet Plane, Abydos UFO, etc.) is a pseudoscientific modern myth that has been spread rapidly via the internet concerning the singular appearance of a re-carved inscription in the mortuary temple of Seti I in Abydos, Egypt.
The famous and controversial glyphs at Abydos
It is claimed this carving depicts various high-tech or alien technologies, such as submarines, jet planes, and UFOs, thus playing into the theories that Ancient Egyptian civilization was either influenced or founded by aliens or Atlanteans.
A wall section showing obvious evidence of recurving
The temple was built during the 19th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, in the post-Amarna New Kingdom. It was built as a cenotaph and mortuary temple for Seti I, linking him to the cult of Osiris, which had a major presence at Abydos, and the temple features a prominent Osirian theme throughout, although other deities, as well as Seti I himself, were worshipped here. The temple was not completed in the lifetime of Seti I, but was completed by his son, Ramesses II, early in the reign of the latter. The work of Ramesses II was inferior to that of his father, and it is easy to tell, even without reading the temple inscriptions, in which reign each section was completed. As a result of this ‘shoddy’ work, some inscriptions were re-carved, hastily chiseled out, modified using plaster infill, or even just plastered over and new inscriptions chiseled into the plaster that, over millennia, crumbled or dried, falling away from the stonework. Of much greater interest to us is the Osirion, also found at Abydos.
The Osirion was supposedly an integral part of Seti I's funeral complex, and was also supposedly built to resemble an 18th Dynasty Valley of the Kings tomb. It was discovered by archaeologists Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray, who were excavating the site in 1902 - 1903. The Osirion was originally built at a considerably lower level than the foundations of the temple of Seti, who ruled from 1294 - 1279 BC.
The author inside the Osirion, thanks to local connections
While there is disagreement as to its true age, Peter Brand says it "can be dated confidently to Seti's reign," despite the fact that it is situated at a lower depth than the structures nearby, that it features a very different architectural approach, and that it is frequently flooded with water, making carving it impossible had the water level been the same at the time of construction.
Another view of the interior of the Osirion
It is also extremely megalithic, and does not have all of the glyph ornamentation of the rest of the vast complex at Abydos. The vertical columns, weighing at least 60 tons each, are granite or possibly grano-diorite, and thus would have had to have been brought to this location from either Aswan or the eastern desert. Also, the walls are made from quartzite. The major ancient quarry of such stone being near Cairo, meaning that the granite was likely moved at least 400 kilometers and the quartzite about 200 kilometers. Most of the rest of the Abydos complex was either made of sandstone or limestone.
Depictions of the 'flower of life' painted on a column
Unfortunately, the most famous thing about the Osirion is the painting of the ‘flower of life’ symbol at different locations on the surfaces in red ochre paint. A number of these patterns can be seen on more than one of the columns of the Osirion, which is clearly ancient megalithic and pre-dynastic. However, the Greek text shows that this must have been placed here at a much later date. Possibly during the Ptolemaic period in Egyptian history, which lasted from 332 - 30 BC. It is just possible that this design could have been influenced by Pythagoras, which would push the dating back to around 547 BC. Claims that they were burned into the surface with a laser is simply not true.
Another view of the interior of the Osirion
The Osirion is very similar in basic construction to the Valley and Sphinx Temples of the Giza Plateau, and are likely contemporary in age. There are no Egyptian glyphs on the surfaces of the columns in any of these three structures. The original function of the Osirion is unclear. It was seemingly built underground for a specific reason, but what that would be is unknown. Normally it has water in it, and there is what would appear to be an ancient tunnel or possibly even water channel that leads to its only entrance/exit, as seen in the next photo.
Just in front of the tunnel leading into the Osirion is another that is perpendicular to it. It is at an angle and may have originally led to the surface, but the actual entrance seems to be buried in the sand. Both tunnels are tall enough to allow a normal- sized person to walk through.
Tunnel leading to the Osirion
Perpendicular tunnel in front of that seen in the previous photo
On this last visit, I saw that the lintel of the entrance to the Osirion has a very long obvious saw cut on the backside of the quartzite stone. As quartzite has a hardness of 7 on the Moh’s scale out of 10, there is no way that the dynastic Egyptians could have made this mark. It is the longest straight saw cut that the author has seen in Egypt so far.
Obvious saw cut near the top of the entrance lintel
Now we will move on to Karnak, where there appear to be obvious signs of possible cataclysmic damage to the core of this vast ancient site.
The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as just Karnak, comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings. Building at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I in the Middle Kingdom, and continued into the Ptolemaic period, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the Ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut (‘The Most Selected of Places’) and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the God Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes. The Karnak complex gives its name to the nearby and partly surrounded - modern village of El-Karnak, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) north of Luxor.
The history of the Karnak complex is largely the history of Thebes and its changing role in the culture. Religious centers varied by region, and with the establishment of the current capital of the unified culture, that changed several times. The city of Thebes does not appear to have been of great significance before the 11th Dynasty, and previous temple building here would have been relatively small, with shrines being dedicated to the early deities of Thebes - the Earth Goddesses’ Mut and Montu. However, in the core area we find definite pre-dynastic examples o
f stone work.
Classic main entrance into Karnak
The largest example of a core drill so far
It is in the core that we find a path leading from east to west. This is through the main entrance and leads all the way to the back of the vast complex. We walk through many sandstone columns that were made by the dynastic Egyptians, but the core, sometimes referred to as the ‘Holy of Holies’ is of different construction.
Interior of the Holy of Holies composed of solid granite
Unlike the rest of Karnak, there is a lot of granite in the central core, and thus, would be the oldest part of the complex. Almost every stone structure and obelisk have severe damage - likely not the result of vandalism or weathering, but of a catastrophic force, perhaps heat.
Strange 'weathering patterns' on a block of black granite
We first were shown, by Yousef Awyan, an area to the left side of the Holy of Holies about three years ago that had large stones, perhaps part of an obelisk, with very strange signs of degredation. Both geologists Suzan Moore and Robert Schoch have been shown these, and initially had no logical explanation of what had happened to the stone. There are large cracks that would not have been the result of sun or rain, and the size of the crystals inside are much larger than on the surface. Some have surmised that this was the result of a sudden absorption of energy from an unknown source, but on our 2016 trip a more logical, and very controvercial theory came into the author’s mind.
Photo clearly showing the internal crystals to be larger than the surface
It is Robert Schoch’s theory that plasma ejections from the sun 11,700 years ago were responsible for the rapid ending of the last ice age, as well as raising the ocean level of the planet very dramatically. Plasma consists of electrically charged particles. Familiar plasma phenomena on Earth today include lightning and auroras, the northern and southern lights, and upper atmospheric phenomena known as sprites. In the past, much more powerful plasma events sometimes took place, due to solar outbursts and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the sun, or possibly emissions from other celestial objects. Powerful plasma phenomena could cause strong electrical discharges to hit Earth, burning and incinerating materials on our planet's surface.
Plasma hitting the surface of Earth could heat and fuse rock, incinerate flammable materials, melt ice caps, vaporize shallow bodies of water creating an extended deluge of rain, and send the climate into a warming spell. The release of pressure that follows the melting of thousands of meters thick ice sheets can induce earthquakes and even cause hot rock under pressure to melt and erupt to the surface as volcanoes. It is possible that the strange effects on the stone at the Holy of Holies, and other sites nearby, are evidence of Dr. Schoch’s theory.
More examples of the strange decomposing stone
The plasma event of 9700 BC eradicated advanced civilizations and high cultures of the time, and the radiation emanating from the plasma may have affected mental and psychical abilities. This could be the basis for the nearly universal myth of a Golden Age, a time when beings on Earth had mental abilities far surpassing those of later times.
Extreme erosion on a vertical stone near the entrance to the Holy of Holies
The 9700 BC event may be the original basis for the Atlantis legends as the timeframe fits well with Plato's account.
Path to the Holy of Holies facing east
The plasma did not strike all of the planet, but some locations. It is possible that came from the east, because that is where the sun rises. At Karnak, the path to the Holy of Holies is about 20 degrees off of true east/west. If the planet was vertical in terms of its axis before the cataclysm of 11,700 years ago, and is now 23.5 degrees off, it could make sense that prior to the cataclysm, the path was indeed true east/west. The plasma would scorch and damage everything in its path, and vaporize any forms of life nearby.
Damaged vertical stones on the left and right of the east/west path
The damage you can see in the above photo is far more on the east side of the stones than other sides. Again, you are not looking at normal weathering of a hard stone like granite, but some extreme situation. As we travel up and down the path, we see such damage on each of the stones.
After Karnak, we move on to another area of ancient Thebes where we will explore other strange scorch marks and seemingly cataclysmic damage. It is possible that such a plasma strike was restricted to this area, or could have been more extensive.
None of these columns would have been here at the time of the event
Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes). The dynastic aspects were constructed approximately 1400 BC, and it is known in the Egyptian language as ipet resyt, or ‘the southern sanctuary.’
The probable path of destruction
In Luxor there are several great temples on the east and west banks. Four of the major mortuary temples visited by early travelers and tourists include the Temple of Seti I at Gurnah, the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri, and the Temple of Ramesses II.
Some of the massive sandstone columns at Luxor
It is from the name Luxor that we get the English word ‘luxury.’ Luxor Temple was built with sandstone from the Gebel el-Silsila area, which is located in south-western Egypt, less than 100 kilometers. from Luxor. This sandstone from the Gebel el-Silsila region is referred to as Nubian Sandstone and was used for the construction for monuments in Upper Egypt, as well as past and current restoration works.
More of the sandstone columns of Luxor
The sandstone constructions both at Luxor and Karnak, including the columns seen above, were made in sections - sizes that were small enough for a group of workers to handle. However, other massive artifacts at Luxor, like we saw at Karnak, were made from granite, and likely were found there by the dynastic people when they first arrived, as they could not have made them.
Massive obelisk at the entrance to the Luxor Temple
The massive obelisk seen in the photo above was made from one piece of granite, not sections. It is estimated to weigh about 230 tons. Its twin, though not the exact same, was ‘gifted’ to France in the 19th century. They are both attributed to Ramses II, but the only contribution that he made was having his name put on them, as his workers could not have cut, shaped, or moved them.
Two of the massive standing granite statues attributed to Ramses II
It was thanks to the careful observations of Yousef Awyan that further evidence that Ramses II did not have the granite works made for him were revealed. It appears that Ramses’ workers, or perhaps priests, found these massive objects at Luxor, either standing as they do now, or lying on or even under the ground. Ramses was asked if he wanted his cartouche carved into them, and of course he said “Yes – many times.” As you can see in the photo below, the cartouche cuts into a sword.
Note how the cartouche cuts into the sword
In the next photo, we see one of two huge one-piece granite statues at the entrance to Luxor. Each weighs several hundred tons and show damage not typical of simple defacement, but more likely catastrophic effect.
It was master machinist Chris Dunn, author of Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt, that noticed an exceptional degree in precision in some of the works at Karnak and other locations in Egypt.
One of two massive one-pieces, minus the base granite statues
From Chris Dunn's exceptional book
He found perfect bilateral symmetry in some of the ‘Ramses’ faces, as well as machining marks. Such symmetry is not what a human face has, and the work would be practically impossible for modern sculptors to achieve, using machine tools, and clearly not possible by the dynastic people either.
One of the headdresses that shows astonishing precision
He was also attracted to various broken headdresses on display at Luxor and found them to be profoundly precise. Though you are not supposed to touch these, as they are roped off, one
cannot help but touch the smooth - and in some cases glossy - surfaces. In the one above and others, no flaws or mistakes made by the presumed sculptor could be felt - the curves would be what you find on a modern luxury sports car.
One of the Colossi of Memnon
Not far from Luxor, one finds the Colossi of Memnon. The twin statues supposedly depict Amenhotep III (14th century BC) in a seated position, his hands resting on his knees and his gaze facing eastwards (actually ESE in modern bearings) towards the river. Two shorter figures are carved into the front throne alongside his legs. These are his wife Tiy, and mother Mutemwiya. The side panels depict the Nile God Hapy. The statues are made from blocks of quartzite sandstone, which was quarried at el-Gabal el-Ahmar (near modern-day Cairo) and transported 675 kilometers (420 miles) overland to Thebes. (They are too heavy to have been transported upstream on the Nile.) The blocks used by later Roman engineers to reconstruct the northern colossus may have come from Edfu (north of Aswan). Including the stone platforms on which they stand, themselves about 4 meters (13 feet), the colossi reach a towering 18 meters (60 feet) in height and weight of an estimated 720 tons each.
As we have already seen, quartzite could not have been shaped in the 14th century BC, and how were such literal colossi moved, being 720 tons each? The fact that they face ESE, or about 23 degrees off to true east, like the path at Karnak, is interesting. It could very well be that these, again, are extremely ancient sculptures. If they predate 12,000 years ago, and faced true east at that time, then they could be another example of the destructive force of a plasma ejection from the sun, as we saw at Karnak.
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