Page 411 - Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

‘OK. So do you think it’s possible that the pyramids are as old as the
Sphinx too?’
‘It’s hard to say. I think something was there where those pyramids now
are—because of the geometry. The Sphinx was part of a master-plan. And
the Khafre Pyramid is maybe the most interesting in that respect because
it was definitely built in two stages. If you look at it—maybe you’ve
noticed—you’ll see that its base consists of several courses of gigantic
blocks similar in style to the blocks of the core masonry of the Valley
Temple. Superimposed above the base, the rest of the pyramid is
composed of smaller, less precisely engineered stuff. But when you look
at it, knowing what you’re looking for, you see instantly that it’s built in
two separate bits. I mean I can’t help but feel that the vast blocks on the
bottom date from the earlier period—from the time the Sphinx was
built—and that the second part was added later—but even then not
necessarily by Khafre. As you go into this you begin to realize that the
more you learn the more complex everything becomes. For example,
there may even have been an intermediate civilization, which actually
would correspond to the Egyptian texts. They talk themselves about two
long prior periods. In the first of these Egypt was supposedly ruled by the
gods—the Neteru—and in the second it was ruled by the Shemsu Hor, the
“Companions of Horus”. So, as I say, the problems just get more and
more complicated. Fortunately, however, the bottom line stays simple.
The bottom line is the Sphinx wasn’t built by Khafre. The geology proves
that it’s a hell of a lot older ...’
‘Nevertheless the Egyptologists won’t accept that it is. One of the
arguments they’ve used against you—Mark Lehner did so—goes
something like this: “If the Sphinx was made before 10,000 BC then why
can’t you show us the rest of the civilization that built it?” In other words,
why don’t you have any other evidence to put forward for the presence of
your legendary lost civilization apart from a few structures on the Giza
plateau? What do you say to that?’
‘First off, there are structures outside Giza—for example the Osireion in
Abydos, where you’ve just come from. We think that amazing edifice may
relate to our work on the Sphinx. Even if the Osireion didn’t exist,
however, the absence of other evidence wouldn’t worry me. I mean, to
make a big deal out of the fact that further confirmatory evidence hasn’t
been found yet and to use this to try to scuttle the arguments for an older
Sphinx is completely illogical. Analogously it’s like saying to Magellan ...
“Where are the other guys who’ve sailed round the world? Of course it’s
still flat.” Or in 1838 when the first dinosaur bone was found they would
have said, “Of course there’s no such thing as a giant extinct animal.
Where’s the rest of the skeletons? They’ve only found one bone.” But once
a few people began to realize that this bone could only be from an
extinct animal, within twenty years the museums of the world were filled
up with complete dinosaur skeletons. So it’s sort of like that. Nobody’s

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