SH Archive Analyze this: Egyptologists Open a Newly-Discovered Pyramid

[KD Archive]

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2020-01-29 05:20:05
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My turn, but you, ladies and gentlemen, covered just about everything there was to cover. It seems I had way more thoughts on this yesterdays after watching the vid, but there it goes:

1. They (mainstream)always project zero concern or interest for stuff being buried under feet of dirt, sand or whatever.

• They casually state in the video, "But the remains of many more (pyramids) lie hidden beneath the desert sands." No questioning follows.
• The main idea here is to instill the notion that structures are expected to become buried with time. This is a huge tactical move on their part.
• This phenomena is present all over the world, and the tactical approach by TPTB consists of removing any possibility of this phenomena being questioned.
• By acting with a total lack of surprise, they subliminally project the following message - THIS IS NORMAL AND EXPECTED.

2. By mentioning "Royal Graveyards" in the beginning of the video, they throw a maintenance bone in support of one of the main things we need to associate Ancient Egypt with - THE GRAVES and TOMBS.

3. "...until workers stumbled upon blocks of finely cut limestone buried deep in the sand." Here viewers, once again, are supposed to "understand" that these facts do not surprise the professionals. There is nothing out of the ordinary, and everything is as it should be.

4. "... and any mummy and treasure that may be hidden inside." With this statement TPTB subliminally eliminate all the other possible purposes of this structure, as well as all the other possible items of value or equipment it could have contained. Without pronouncing it, TPTB say that it was not a power plant, factory or College. They also project that it did not contain any nuclear reactors, or aircraft assembly lines. Only mummies and treasure could be inside.

5. "... finally, after three days of effort, the tomb gives up its secrets for the first time in almost 4,000 years." Lies presented as facts here. These are lies, because presenting a theory, or a hypothesis as a fact is lying.

• They keep on pounding in that the structure - 100% - was a tomb.
• They make the listener "understand" that this structure is close to 4,000 years old. The listener needs to absorb that this structure cannot be 400 years old.

6. The fact that the space they get into was buried and undisturbed by the contemporary grave diggers, once again subliminally, informs that there were no technology related objects inside. This is the double protection, or the second level of the narrative defense. The first one was mentioned in the bullet #4. For those few who expect some technology of the Gods, this is the moment where they say, "Well, may be next time. I will keep on waiting."

7. "...The archaeologists hoped to be unveiling treasure, but now there is a mystery to solve." I see two things in here.

• The listener, once again, understands that there was nothing already extracted from this space by their contemporaries.
• The listener should not forget that there could only be treasure inside. Rockets, tanks, computers, under no circumstances, could have been stored within this space. I am being sarcastic with the tech item names, but I hope you do understand what I mean. It's mummies and treasures mummies and treasures, mummies and treasures... ∞∞∞

8. Once inside, and after locating nothing but a 4,000 year old object resembling an indestructible by time plywood box we are forced to be limited
to only two possibilities of the purposes and "stolen" contents of this space. They actually crammed two limitations into one.

• 1. "Who was buried here? 2. Who was this pyramid built for?"
  • Don't you, listener, dare to forget that this is a pyramid. And make sure you remember that it was built for the burial purposes only.
• 2. "How is it, that an apparently completely sealed, unbreached burial chamber, comes to have been disturbed?"
  • We, the PTB, had nothing to do with removing anything from here. Dr Chris Naunton has nothing to do with this. He simply sends the message.
  • And the important part here would be the expectations maintenance. They are building a sort of expectations tolerance. TPTB will never find anything we, the people, are not supposed to see. But we, the people, should not be surprised that nothing ever gets found in these "burial" chambers.

9. They give us a sense of mystery with their "It's becoming clear, they've stumbled upon an ancient crime scene. Someone got here first and robbed the burial chamber." Sheeple enjoy a good mystery. The above comment is accompanied by this clown-photographer wearing a mask and white gloves.

• Is he afraid to contaminate the scene, or to get contaminated himself by catching the pseudo-bug of the King Tuts tomb? The other guy in the picture does not seem to care about either.
• This little moment in the video projects that we are seeing professional scientists taking their job seriously. They are to be trusted.

10. Well, and of course we need to trust the Smithsonian, for they have such knowledgeable people they work with.

But can we trust Jesuits with anything, especially with our history?

• Smithsonian: Suppressed Archaeological Finds

Dr Chris Naunton

This is just my opinion, but people like our pseudo-archaeologist here, are a disgrace, no matter what perspective we look from.

• If he is an honest person, he has no brain, for what he is preaching is a religion, and has nothing to do with archaeology.
  • Memorize, and repeat. Memorize, and repeat.
• If he sees and recognizes the inconsistencies, but stays silent because these inconsistencies pay the bills, he has no integrity.
• If he knowingly serves TPTB, he is with TPTB.

KD: Anyways, something like this...

 

[Archive]

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Username: Muiredach
Date: 2020-01-29 06:37:16
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All just promo and marketing material for the new Grand Egyptian museum finally due to open soon.

True story, about 4 years ago I spent hours in the current Cairo museum, mostly taking photos of everything I found strange and unusual. I spent a lot of time especially on the mind-blowing sarcophagus of SETI I (IIRC), and it’s the one and only time in my life, walking back out the door (well, through the gift shop/cafe), about to post what I considered to be strong ET evidence, that all the photos magically disappeared from my phone.

Complete truth, and first and only time that’s happened. I literally checked yesterday for my photos from the Abydos submarine, rocket etc. (bribing guards to climb up there!) that I realised it’s literally the first image after the exterior shots of the museum, to some random video clip of me crossing the road outside that have been deleted.

I have maybe 15,000 images of the oldest sites in the world from my travels I will share here when I get some time.

EDIT: You guys sound interested, I'm just about to fly home (US>UK), but I'll start getting photos up soon. It's the Karnak/Luxor/VoK photos from Aegypt specifically that people will love most, but then I have everything from the Acropolis, to Baalbek, to HOURS of driving footage in Jordan including TONS from Petra, thank me later

 

[HollyHoly]

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Username: HollyHoly
Date: 2020-01-29 07:58:44
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My turn, but you, ladies and gentlemen, covered just about everything there was to cover. It seems I had way more thoughts on this yesterdays after watching the vid, but there it goes:

1. They (mainstream)always project zero concern or interest for stuff being buried under feet of dirt, sand or whatever.

• They casually state in the video, "But the remains of many more (pyramids) lie hidden beneath the desert sands." No questioning follows.
• The main idea here is to instill the notion that structures are expected to become buried with time. This is a huge tactical move on their part.
• This phenomena is present all over the world, and the tactical approach by TPTB consists of removing any possibility of this phenomena being questioned.
• By acting with a total lack of surprise, they subliminally project the following message - THIS IS NORMAL AND EXPECTED.

2. By mentioning "Royal Graveyards" in the beginning of the video, they throw a maintenance bone in support of one of the main things we need to associate Ancient Egypt with - THE GRAVES and TOMBS.

3. "...until workers stumbled upon blocks of finely cut limestone buried deep in the sand." Here viewers, once again, are supposed to "understand" that these facts do not surprise the professionals. There is nothing out of the ordinary, and everything is as it should be.

View attachment 39588

4. "... and any mummy and treasure that may be hidden inside." With this statement TPTB subliminally eliminate all the other possible purposes of this structure, as well as all the other possible items of value or equipment it could have contained. Without pronouncing it, TPTB say that it was not a power plant, factory or College. They also project that it did not contain any nuclear reactors, or aircraft assembly lines. Only mummies and treasure could be inside.

5. "... finally, after three days of effort, the tomb gives up its secrets for the its time in almost 4,000 years." Lies presented as facts here. These are lies, because presenting a theory, or a hypothesis as a fact is lying.

• They keep on pounding in that the structure - 100% - was a tomb.
• They make the listener "understand" that this structure is close to 4,000 years old. The listener needs to absorb that this structure cannot be 400 years old.

6. The fact that the space they get into was buried and undisturbed by the contemporary grave diggers, once again subliminally, informs that there were no technology related objects inside. This is the double protection, or the second level of the narrative defense. The first one was mentioned in the bullet #4. For those few who expect some technology of the Gods, this is the moment where they say, "Well, may be next time. I will keep on waiting."

7. "...The archaeologists hoped to be unveiling treasure, but now there is a mystery to solve." I see two things in here.

• The listener, once again, understands that there was nothing already extracted from this space by their contemporaries.
• The listener should not forget that there could only be treasure inside. Rockets, tanks, computers, under no circumstances, could have been stored within this space. I am being sarcastic with the tech item names, but I hope you do understand what I mean. It's mummies and treasures mummies and treasures, mummies and treasures... ∞∞∞

8. Once inside, and after locating nothing but a 4,000 year old object resembling an indestructible by time plywood box we are forced to be limited
to only two possibilities of the purposes and "stolen" contents of this space. They actually crammed two limitations into one.

• 1. "Who was buried here? 2.Who was this pyramid built for?"
  • Don't you, listener, dare to forget that this is a pyramid. And make sure you remember that it was built for the burial purposes only.
• 2. "How is it, that an apparently completely sealed, unbreached burial chamber, comes to have been disturbed?"
  • We, the PTB, had nothing to do with removing anything from here. Dr Chris Naunton has nothing to do with this. He simply sends the message.
  • And the important part here would be the expectations maintenance. They are building a sort of expectations tolerance. TPTB will never find anything we, the people, are not supposed to see. But we, the people, should not be surprised that nothing ever gets found in these "burial" chambers.

View attachment 39598

9. They give us a sense of mystery with their "It's becoming clear, they've stumbled upon an ancient crime scene. Someone got here first and robbed the burial chamber." Sheeple enjoy a good mystery. The above comment is accompanied by this clown-photographer wearing a mask and white gloves.

• Is he afraid to contaminate the scene, or to get contaminated himself by catching the pseudo-bug of the King Tits tomb? The other guy in the picture does not seem to care about both.

View attachment 39599

10. Well, and of course we need to trust the Smithsonian, for they have such knowledgeable people to work with.

View attachment 39600

But can we trust Jesuits with anything, especially with our history?

• Smithsonian: Suppressed Archaeological Finds

View attachment 39601

Dr Chris Naunton

This is just my opinion, but people like our pseudo-archaeologist here, are a disgrace, no matter what perspective we look from.

• If he is an honest person, he has no brain, for what he is preaching is a religion, and has nothing to do with archaeology.
  • Memorize, and repeat. Memorize, and repeat.
• If he sees and recognizes the inconsistencies, but stays silent because these inconsistencies pay the bills, he has no integrity.
• If he knowingly serves TPTB, he is with TPTB.

View attachment 39602

KD: Anyways, something like this...

yup basically the world and its history is super mundane ,just rich important people hoarding wealth and having wars about wealth and murdering us and us scrabbling around on the farms and mines , nothing to see here. Some interchangeable talking head with a pseudo degree in pure BS will tell us all about it. Also how we evolved from monkeys and we're gonna go to space

 

[Archive]

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Username: Inkas
Date: 2020-01-29 09:41:25
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My turn, but you, ladies and gentlemen, covered just about everything there was to cover. It seems I had way more thoughts on this yesterdays after watching the vid, but there it goes:

1. They (mainstream)always project zero concern or interest for stuff being buried under feet of dirt, sand or whatever.

• They casually state in the video, "But the remains of many more (pyramids) lie hidden beneath the desert sands." No questioning follows.
• The main idea here is to instill the notion that structures are expected to become buried with time. This is a huge tactical move on their part.
• This phenomena is present all over the world, and the tactical approach by TPTB consists of removing any possibility of this phenomena being questioned.
• By acting with a total lack of surprise, they subliminally project the following message - THIS IS NORMAL AND EXPECTED.

2. By mentioning "Royal Graveyards" in the beginning of the video, they throw a maintenance bone in support of one of the main things we need to associate Ancient Egypt with - THE GRAVES and TOMBS.

3. "...until workers stumbled upon blocks of finely cut limestone buried deep in the sand." Here viewers, once again, are supposed to "understand" that these facts do not surprise the professionals. There is nothing out of the ordinary, and everything is as it should be.

View attachment 39588

4. "... and any mummy and treasure that may be hidden inside." With this statement TPTB subliminally eliminate all the other possible purposes of this structure, as well as all the other possible items of value or equipment it could have contained. Without pronouncing it, TPTB say that it was not a power plant, factory or College. They also project that it did not contain any nuclear reactors, or aircraft assembly lines. Only mummies and treasure could be inside.

5. "... finally, after three days of effort, the tomb gives up its secrets for the its time in almost 4,000 years." Lies presented as facts here. These are lies, because presenting a theory, or a hypothesis as a fact is lying.

• They keep on pounding in that the structure - 100% - was a tomb.
• They make the listener "understand" that this structure is close to 4,000 years old. The listener needs to absorb that this structure cannot be 400 years old.

6. The fact that the space they get into was buried and undisturbed by the contemporary grave diggers, once again subliminally, informs that there were no technology related objects inside. This is the double protection, or the second level of the narrative defense. The first one was mentioned in the bullet #4. For those few who expect some technology of the Gods, this is the moment where they say, "Well, may be next time. I will keep on waiting."

7. "...The archaeologists hoped to be unveiling treasure, but now there is a mystery to solve." I see two things in here.

• The listener, once again, understands that there was nothing already extracted from this space by their contemporaries.
• The listener should not forget that there could only be treasure inside. Rockets, tanks, computers, under no circumstances, could have been stored within this space. I am being sarcastic with the tech item names, but I hope you do understand what I mean. It's mummies and treasures mummies and treasures, mummies and treasures... ∞∞∞

8. Once inside, and after locating nothing but a 4,000 year old object resembling an indestructible by time plywood box we are forced to be limited
to only two possibilities of the purposes and "stolen" contents of this space. They actually crammed two limitations into one.

• 1. "Who was buried here? 2.Who was this pyramid built for?"
  • Don't you, listener, dare to forget that this is a pyramid. And make sure you remember that it was built for the burial purposes only.
• 2. "How is it, that an apparently completely sealed, unbreached burial chamber, comes to have been disturbed?"
  • We, the PTB, had nothing to do with removing anything from here. Dr Chris Naunton has nothing to do with this. He simply sends the message.
  • And the important part here would be the expectations maintenance. They are building a sort of expectations tolerance. TPTB will never find anything we, the people, are not supposed to see. But we, the people, should not be surprised that nothing ever gets found in these "burial" chambers.

View attachment 39598

9. They give us a sense of mystery with their "It's becoming clear, they've stumbled upon an ancient crime scene. Someone got here first and robbed the burial chamber." Sheeple enjoy a good mystery. The above comment is accompanied by this clown-photographer wearing a mask and white gloves.

• Is he afraid to contaminate the scene, or to get contaminated himself by catching the pseudo-bug of the King Tits tomb? The other guy in the picture does not seem to care about both.

View attachment 39599

10. Well, and of course we need to trust the Smithsonian, for they have such knowledgeable people to work with.

View attachment 39600

But can we trust Jesuits with anything, especially with our history?

• Smithsonian: Suppressed Archaeological Finds

View attachment 39601

Dr Chris Naunton

This is just my opinion, but people like our pseudo-archaeologist here, are a disgrace, no matter what perspective we look from.

• If he is an honest person, he has no brain, for what he is preaching is a religion, and has nothing to do with archaeology.
  • Memorize, and repeat. Memorize, and repeat.
• If he sees and recognizes the inconsistencies, but stays silent because these inconsistencies pay the bills, he has no integrity.
• If he knowingly serves TPTB, he is with TPTB.

View attachment 39602

KD: Anyways, something like this...

I'm still new here and I guess everyone else is used to it, but I have to say this summary is really something to behold!

 

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Username: FlyChaos
Date: 2020-01-29 10:08:11
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here is rest of building


not good fit

 

[realitycheck]

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Username: realitycheck
Date: 2020-01-29 18:16:27
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Most of the thing have been said so I will not repeat that, but here are few more things I noticed.

1. Angle of camera is such so it never reveals bigger picture, or area of whole site so rectangular shape of pyramid base is not visible - maybe because it doesn't resemble pyramid base?

2. They declared that part burial chamber, but there are two similar cuts in floor - one on each side. Also I would think burial chamber would have some slope or stairs leading to it but instead we just have waist deep cut? Not connected with talk about chamber but large brick or stone wall/floor is showing in few places and its stone/brick, style and precision is not same as rest of site.

3. Tomb appears to be sealed with towel?

4. I am not going into how they managed to get those blue strips behind and under that large granite block, but when they moved it they revealed chamber that looks cca 1 meter wide and 2m deep? - yes there is nothing for scale to be sure but judging by the light from lamp and as there are no people inside or anything else for scale I guess I am not wrong by much in my estimate.

5. In next few pictures you can see how stairs that they say "lead from entrance to deep under the pyramid" are not leading to that plato they are showing but end in a hole that is about waist deep below plato (as cuts for "chamber" and other two).

6. That style of stairs I never saw in egyptian pyramids, tombs, temples... I may be wrong - I did few quick searches and I did not find other stairs like it in Egypt. Those stairs look like they were used for something with wheels or sleds to go up and down, similar slope with grooves on side also ending in hole (pic above).

 

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Username: HulkSmash
Date: 2020-01-29 18:37:39
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Good analysis @realitycheck ! So obvious to me that this is a cover-up. Of what, I am unsure. The white stone really reminds me of the Osireion at Abydos. The narrative of that site is also garbage, IMHO.

 

[realitycheck]

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Username: realitycheck
Date: 2020-01-29 20:11:33
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Forgot to mention - huge stone blocks look like they were put in place and then shaped? For 4000 BC and copper and stone tools that sure is unnecessary complicated way to build with stone... - just as a side note it took them 3 days to prepare and lift up that one stone blocking the chamber (with modern tools).

 

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Username: Inkas
Date: 2020-01-29 20:36:22
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By May 11th 2017 they knew this was the tomb of the daughter of Ameny Qemau. They even found a sarcophagus. You remember that from the photos, right?

• Archaeologists uncover ancient Egyptian princess’s tomb in Dahshur
• Egypt uncovers 'tomb of pharaoh's daughter'

And don't worry they repaired that broken box too:

Theres more:

• A poorly preserved sarcophagus was also discovered in the tomb, along with skeletal remains, gold flakes and a carved stone lantern, the Antiquities Ministry reported.

Our Dr Naunton is nowhere to be seen on any of the photos the Ministry of Antiquities released.

 

[KD Archive]

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2020-01-29 20:45:06
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LOL. Thank you very much. Following up on your findings here.

• This wooden box was discovered inside the burial chamber of a 3,800-year-old pyramid and is inscribed with hieroglyphs that may mention the name of the daughter of pharaoh Ameny Qemau. The box once held the remains of jars containing the internal organs of a mummy.
  • KD: I'm wondering what tree lumber was used to make this box. 3,800 years old it is. What a miracle.
• Burial Chamber of Princess Possibly Found in Ancient Egypt Pyramid

Well, and then we have this: Coffin Pieced Together Reveals Egyptian Princess Face

 

[Dielectric]

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Username: Dielectric
Date: 2020-01-30 00:17:39
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Dr Chris Naunton - using a search engine of you preference - what is your opinion on his related interests and qualifications?

What makes him an expert?

Well he's White and British and an Egyptologist: Christ Sakes KD, how much more do you need, right?

I listened to this twice and what I got was 4,000 years old, mummy & treasure, workers stumbled upon & mystery.
The thing that strikes me is this was supposedly the site of a quarry and then they found this, but look around, what quarry?
Looks to me like they only thing quarried was the so called pyramid: Fake narrative or someone really F--up
Oh yea, and that wooden box looks so out of place as be absurd.

 

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Username: Carolus
Date: 2020-01-30 04:03:54
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On several photos you see the “butterfly” shaped cavity to connect the stones. Where they usaully poured in arsenicum bronze to keep those stones connected. So I therefore I would call this building style nephalim (build by giants). So very unlikely that the orinal funtion of the building was a grave, or build by pharaos.

 

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Username: ajricca
Date: 2020-01-30 08:06:32
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Im have quite interesting pictures about Cairo as im a very new member of this community I don't know where to put them. I would like to share them with KorbenDallas

 

[KD Archive]

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2020-01-30 09:26:55
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You can send those to the same e-mail address you received your confirmation e-mail from.

 

[Magnus]

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Date: 2020-01-30 09:55:08
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On several photos you see the “butterfly” shaped cavity to connect the stones. Where they usaully poured in arsenicum bronze to keep those stones connected. So I therefore I would call this building style nephalim (build by giants). So very unlikely that the orinal funtion of the building was a grave, or build by pharaos.

I noticed that, the kind of "key cuts" seen on megalithic construction world wide.....the mainstream explanation for these, that when filled with molten metal they "keep the blocks in place" makes no sense whatsoever to me....for a start if on a horizontal surface as many are, they would just pop out if there was vertical movement

Seems to me that it is far more likely the purpose of connecting stone blocks with metal is to electrically connect them....the other thing I always find interesting and I think has something to do with electrical properties is that many of these sites have granite in the centre with limestone on the outside, while I've not got as far as figuring out the how or why, it is such a common feature of these sites that there had to be a reason for it

 

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Username: HulkSmash
Date: 2020-01-30 13:52:20
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LOL. Thank you very much. Following up on your findings here.

• This wooden box was discovered inside the burial chamber of a 3,800-year-old pyramid and is inscribed with hieroglyphs that may mention the name of the daughter of pharaoh Ameny Qemau. The box once held the remains of jars containing the internal organs of a mummy.
  • KD: I'm wondering what tree lumber was used to make this box. 3,800 years old it is. What a miracle.
• Burial Chamber of Princess Possibly Found in Ancient Egypt Pyramid

View attachment 39662

Well, and then we have this: Coffin Pieced Together Reveals Egyptian Princess Face

This box just looks like it doesn't belong. The side we see in the above picture has a rectangular 'blank' spot as if there was a poster, or label, on the box. Maybe it said something like "Egypt's Russet Potatoes" or something. The box looks like it was made in the 1800's.

 

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Username: Searching
Date: 2020-01-30 22:55:42
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:43 - "lunar landscape"

It is a quarry. It is also a pyramid. It is also a burial chamber. There was a dead body here. Somebody stole it out of the sealed tomb.

The Pharaoh has no clothes and is trying to sell some ocean front property in Arizona, which oddly enough also has pyramids.

 

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Username: Carolus
Date: 2020-01-30 22:58:14
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I noticed that, the kind of "key cuts" seen on megalithic construction world wide.....the mainstream explanation for these, that when filled with molten metal they "keep the blocks in place" makes no sense whatsoever to me....for a start if on a horizontal surface as many are, they would just pop out if there was vertical movement

Seems to me that it is far more likely the purpose of connecting stone blocks with metal is to electrically connect them....the other thing I always find interesting and I think has something to do with electrical properties is that many of these sites have granite in the centre with limestone on the outside, while I've not got as far as figuring out the how or why, it is such a common feature of these sites that there had to be a reason for it

Interesting concept, probably there might be more to this. Arsenicum bronze is very special, extremely strong, very corrosion resistant and maybe more characteristics, and very difficult to use on the spot. So the how and why of those connections, maybe a future topic.

 

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2020-01-31 02:46:00
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Greed. Pillaging and tourism and publicity.
Wealth will soon also be in the eye of the beholder.
Bottom gonna drop out, so say Ta Kut.

 

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Date: 2020-01-31 03:07:43
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It is interesting that when the Smithsonian was bequeathed to the USA by James Smithson that

$220 million in today's terms..

Once the money was in hand, eight years of Congressional haggling ensued over how to interpret Smithson's rather vague mandate "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Unfortunately, the money was invested by the US Treasury in bonds issued by the state of Arkansas, which soon defaulted. After heated debate, Massachusetts Representative (and ex-President) John Quincy Adams persuaded Congress to restore the lost funds with interest

So it was a money scam on the tax payers. Who is surprised?

Toward the end of his life, under a clause in his will, he left his fortune to the United States, a place he had never visited, to found in Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” Smithson died in Genoa, Italy, on June 27, 1829, and was interred nearby.

This makes no sense. Why leave 220 million in cash to another country... that you have never been to and that has been at war with your own country?

In 1904, Smithsonian Regent Alexander Graham Bell brought Smithson’s remains to the United States to rest at the Institution his bequest created.

Of course our fabled super hero swoops in to be a hero. Maybe someone called him on the phone he built?

Although Smithson’s papers and his vast mineral collection were all destroyed by fire in 1865,

Destroyed by fire? Please tell me this is not so.

The story of his life and work has been largely recovered in the recent biography, The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian, by Heather Ewing.

Oh thank God it's been recovered after being lost. So lucky.

I want to see your impressive neck length?

Also why does a institute need a flag? Why is the world in the flag and not his beloved USA?