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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

a plan, and they must have intended a strong connection to be seen
between the completely uninscribed (but technically brilliant)—pyramids
at Giza, and the brilliantly inscribed (but technically slipshod) pyramids of
the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties.
I suspected, too, that at least part of the answer to the problem might
lie in the pyramid-field of Dahshur, which we passed fifteen minutes after
leaving Saqqara. It was here that the so-called ‘Bent’ and ‘Red’ Pyramids
were located. Attributed to Sneferu, Khufu’s father, these two monuments
(by all accounts very well preserved) had been closed to the public many
years ago. A military base had been built around them and they had for a
long while been impossible to visit—under any circumstances, ever ...
As we continued our journey south, through the bright colours of that
December day, I was overtaken by a compelling sense that the Nile Valley
had been the scene of momentous events for humanity long before the
recorded history of mankind began. All the most ancient records and
traditions of Egypt spoke of such events and associated them with the
epoch during which the gods had ruled on earth: the fabled First Time,
which was called Zep Tepi. We shall delve into these records in the next
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