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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

The Sphinx and the Sphinx Temple with the Valley Temple of Khafre.

Lord of Rostau

I now moved around to the entrance of the Valley Temple, located near
the northern end of the 43-foot high eastern wall. Here I saw that the
granite facing was still in perfect condition, consisting of huge slabs
weighing between 70 and 80 tons apiece which protected the underlying
limestone core blocks like a suit of armour. Incorporating a tall, narrow,
roofless corridor, this dark and imposing portal ran east to west at first,
then made a right-angle turn to the south, leading me into a spacious
antechamber. It was here that the life-size diorite statue of Khafre had
been found, upside down and apparently ritually buried, at the bottom of
a deep pit.
Lining the entire interior of the antechamber was a majestic jigsaw
puzzle of smoothly polished granite facing blocks (which continued
through the whole building). Exactly like the blocks on some of the
bigger and more bizarre pre-Inca monuments in Peru, these incorporated
multiple, finely chiselled angles in the joints and presented a complex
overall pattern. Of particular note was the way certain blocks wrapped
around corners and were received by re-entering angles cut into other
blocks.
From the antechamber I passed through an elegant corridor which led
west into a spacious T-shaped hall. I found myself standing at the head of
the T looking further westwards along an imposing avenue of monolithic
columns. Reaching almost 15 feet in height and measuring 41 inches on
each side, all these columns supported granite beams, which were again

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