The Tomb of Osiris (Part 1)

As of late, I've been attempting to put together what bits and pieces I have managed to come across in my search for the truth behind the discovery of the Tomb of Osiris. The details and information available thus far will be analyzed and shared as my research continues.


Part 1 of the blog:

According to sources this is what led to the finding:

You can either read below or click here http://www.towers-online.co.uk/pages/shafted2.htm

In September 1997, a documentary film maker named Boris Said appeared on Bell's radio show to talk about his recent work at Giza. According to Said, one evening back in 1992 he was taking a stroll on the Giza plateau when he came across one of the plateau guards who offered to show him something interesting for twenty dollars.

In December 1995, Said entered into a joint venture agreement with Dr Joseph Schor. Schor was working under a five year permit, renewable annually, to conduct acoustic and radar surveys on the Giza plateau . Schor supplied one hundred thousand dollars for the venture as the financial sponser and was responsible for all scientific aspects of the work. Said was to be in charge of filming the work for a documentary programme for which he required his own photographic permit.

It is worth noting that in April/May 1996 as part of the work, ground-penetrating radar detected what seemed to be a tunnel approximately two metres wide and about three metres below the surface emerging from the tail of the Sphinx and heading in a westerly direction under the causeway towards Khafre's pyramid.

In November 1996, Said returned to the shaft and on descending it found that it had an intermediate level at a depth of about twenty six metres.

...He noticed two disturbed stone sarcophagii and an iron pump at this newly revealed level. The shaft continued for another fifteen metres to the chamber where he found that the water level had dropped by around five metres since his last visit. The chamber was quite spacious and clearly man-made judging from the appearance of the vertical walls, cut steps and right-angles.

Said next returned to the chamber in February 1997 to take some film of the location. His team scraped away at the dirt on the floor to clear a level area for the camera tripod. To their surprise, it quickly became apparent that a smooth hard surface was becoming exposed. Eventually, they uncovered a complete sarcophagus lid. Said says ancient texts contain many references to the use of a sarcophagus lid to cover the entrance to a sacred chamber or a secret tunnel so they decided to investigate further using ground-penetrating radar. This seemed to indicate that the lid was around thirty inches thick. Two and a half metres below the lid it detected a two and a half metre wide anomoly with what looked like a domed ceiling. This anomoly descended at a twenty five degree angle and headed in the direction of the Sphinx two hundred and seventy five yards away. The alleged tunnel emerging from the tail of the Sphinx and heading under the causeway now starts to assume a new significance.

The lid had been uncovered by removing three or four inches of surface material by hand and penknife etc. Said wanted Schor to ask Dr Zahi Hawass (Director General of the Giza Plateau and Saqqara) to investigate further, for example by digging a hole to enter the tunnel. Said said that he was unaware that Schor's permit was revoked at the end of 1996 and they were operating under his photographic permit, and that for this reason Schor was reluctant to take the find to the Egyptian authorities. Following this disagreement, Said and Schor parted company. Schor funded the venture and so had legal title to the film shot by Said, however Said had exclusive marketing rights meaning Schor would be unable use it in a commercial venture. As a result, it is very unlikely that Said's film taken at the time will ever see the light of day.

Said uploaded photographs of the shaft and chamber to his Magical Eye website to accompany the programme. Some exterior shots of the location showed team members descending into a different shaft. Said stated in the interview that this was a deliberate ploy to put others off the true location of the shaft at the time. Unfortunately, the photographs are no longer available on-line.

Said uploaded photographs of the shaft and chamber to his Magical Eye website to accompany the programme. Some exterior shots of the location showed team members descending into a different shaft. Said stated in the interview that this was a deliberate ploy to put others off the true location of the shaft at the time. Unfortunately, the photographs are no longer available on-line. In another account, in his "Behind the scenes with the Magical Eye team on the Giza plateau" video, Said states that the sarcophagus lid was uncovered in November 1996 and that nothing further was done until the team returned in February 1997. There is also doubt as to whether Schor's permit was actually revoked as claimed by Said on the Art Bell radio show. Notwithstanding these points, Said played a major part in raising the profile of what would come to be known as the "Tomb of Osiris".

Sadly, Boris Said died of liver cancer on the 24th March 2002.




Enter Dr Hawass...

In May 1998, during a conference set up by Art Bell as part of an alaskan cruise, Dr Zahi Hawass made an announcement about a new discovery at Giza, saying that a shaft had been found about thirty yards below the second pyramid and that a new sarcophagus was found along with tunnels and a giant cavern. The tunnels were underwater so divers were used to conduct a preliminary search. At some point in the future, Hawass told the audience, an attempt would be made to pump out the water so that the investigation can proceed. Hawass was apparently very excited when speaking about this discovery. Notwithstanding the possible confusion between "below the second pyramid" and "under the causeway", this report seemed to be talking about the same location.

The discovery surfaced again when John Anthony West, an attendee and presenter at the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E) conference held at Virginia beach in August 1998, gave a report on a presentation by Dr Hawass at the same conference. West reported that Dr Hawass had recently excavated a deep shaft found under the causeway midway between the Khafre pyramid and the Sphinx. The shaft was over a hundred feet deep, and opened into a kind of pillared chamber. In the middle there was a huge sarcophagus half submerged in water. By its style, Hawass placed the sarcophagus in the Saite Period (around 600 BC) and thought that the whole complex was reminiscent of the description given by Herodotus for the supposed tomb of Khufu. Hawass did not think it was Khufu's tomb but he did believe it might be a (or the) Tomb of Osiris, and in some way connected at least symbolically with the Oseirion at Abydos.

A press release on Dr Hawass's own website The Plateau reported that he would give two major lectures in December 1998 about the water shaft located under the causeway of Khafre's pyramid. It said Dr. Hawass excavated the water shaft and through diligent research established that it was the tunnel described by Herodotus when he visited Giza over a millenium [sic] ago. According to Dr Hawass, Herodotus said that a tunnel close to the Great Pyramid contained a sarcophagus with Cheop's mummy inside. The shaft was described as opening in the causeway connecting the Sphinx to the Khafre's pyramid. The press release said that Dr. Hawass would describe in his lectures how the shaft was scientifically analysed. Dr. Hawass did indeed present two lectures to the National Geographic Institute in early December 1998, but contrary to what he had earlier stated in his own press release, he made no mention of the shaft under the causeway.

The "Tomb of Osiris" (as it was now called by Hawass) featured in the "Opening The Lost Tombs" FOX TV Special transmitted on the 2nd March 1999 (see page 5). The illustrations of the location were inaccurate compared to the actual layout; presumably there was some "artistic license" to show the interiors of the chambers more clearly. Doctor Hawass subsequently posted an article entitled The Osiris Shaft on his website and featured the location in his 1999 lectures, for example at the University of Pennsylvania on the 11th April (see page 7) and on the 9th December at the National Geographic Institute in Washington D.C. News of the discovery spread and on the 17th June 1999, the Egyptian State Information Service posted an item entitled "Osiris' Tomb near Cheops' Pyramid excavated".

Mahabalipuram Ruins

A major discovery of submerged ruins was made in April of 2002 offshore of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, South India. The discovery, at depths of 5 to 7 meters (15 to 21 feet) was made by a joint team from the Dorset based Scientific Exploration Society (SES) and marine archaeologists from India’s National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) following up a theory first proposed by best-selling author Graham Hancock. Hancock, who dived with the expedition, collected myths and traditions of Mahabalipuram which spoke of a great flood in the area in remote times that had inundated an ancient city and interviewed local fishermen who pointed the way to a series of large submerged structures.

Expedition-leader Monty Halls commented “Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clearly showed man made attributes. The scale of the site appears to be extremely extensive, with fifty dives conducted over a three day period covering only a small area of the overall ruin field. This is plainly a discovery of international significance that demands further exploration and detailed investigation.”

The myths of Mahabalipuram were first set down in writing by a British traveler J. Goldingham who visited the South Indian coastal town in 1798, at which time it was known to sailors as the Seven Pagodas. The myths, still repeated by local fishermen and priests today speak of six temples submerged beneath the waves with the seventh temple still standing on the seashore. The myths also state that a large city once stood here which was so beautiful that the gods became jealous and sent a flood that swallowed it up entirely in a single day.

Investigations were carried out at 5 locations in 5 to 8 m water depths, 500 to 700 m off the shore temple. Investigations at each location have shown the presence of construction stone masonry, remains of walls, a big square rock cut, and scattered square rectangular stone blocks. Most of the structures are damaged and scattered in a vast area, providing substratum for barnacles, mussels and other sedentary organisms.

The discoveries made by the joint SES-NIO expedition appear to confirm that there is substance to the myths. Said Hancock: “I have argued for many years that the world’s flood myths deserve to be taken seriously – a view that most Western academics reject. But here in Mahabalipuram we have proved the myths right and the academics wrong.” The scale of the submerged ruins cover several square miles and at distances of up to a mile from shore.

Sphinx & Great Pyramid -How Old Are They?

The erosion of the Sphinx & its surrounding trench show the result of regular heavy rains, not flooding, not wind, not sand. Egypt has not had that kind of climate since 7,000 BC & with the possibility of the Sphinx being buried in sand for much of the time (as it was till recently excavated) it may very well be many thousands of years older than that.

From a detailed study of the highly-weathered limestone rock and the enclosure in which it sits, Robert Schoch, a geologist from Boston University, also concluded that the Sphinx was exposed to prolonged heavy rainfall.

At some point and or currently there is a fourteen-foot layer of silt sediment around the base of the Great Pyramid, a layer which also contained many seashells, and the fossil of a sea cow, all of which were dated by radiocarbon methods to 11,600 B.P. (Before Present) plus or minus 300 years. Records also speak of the fact that before the Pyramid’s outer casing stones were removed, one could see water marks on the stones halfway up the Pyramid’s height, in about the 240-foot level, which is roughly 400 feet above the present Nile level.

As for all three Giza pyramids: Khufu, first on the scene, would naturally have laid claim to the largest pyramid for himself, or the Great Pyramid. His successor, Khafre, now left with only two pyramids to choose from, would have taken possession of the second largest. Menkhare, the last to reign, would have had to be content with the last pyramid available, the smallest of the three. This suggests the Giza pyramids came first, then the Pharaohs ruled, not the other way around.

The relationship of the 3 Giza pyramids & the Nile to the stars of Orions Belt is exact - provided you 'wind back the clock' to circa 10,400BC. The pattern of temples at Ankor Wat makes a match for the layout of the constellation Draco - provided you 'wind back the clock' to circa 10,400BC.

It has also been proven in the past (although not accepted by the mainstream obviously) that painted hieroglyphic inscriptions found in the air space chambers inside the Great Pyramid which include the name of Pharaoh Khufu were forged by Col. Richard Howard-Vyse in 1837. You can read the detailed article regarding this information here: http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue8/ar8pyramids.html

Pharaoh Khufu himself that he only did repair work on the Great Pyramid. The Inventory Stele, found in 1857 by Auguste Mariette just to the east of the Pyramid, dates to about 1500 B.C., but according to Maspero and other experts, shows evidence of having been copied from a far older stele contemporaneous with the Fourth Dynasty. In the Stele, Khufu himself tells of his discoveries made while clearing away the sands from the Pyramid and Sphinx.

The Stele describes how Pharaoh Khufu, "gave to her (Isis) an offering anew, and he built again (to restore, renovate, reconstruct) her temple of stone." From there, the Pharaoh inspected the Sphinx, according to the text, and related the story of how in his time both the monument and a nearby sycamore tree had been struck by lightning. The bolt had knocked off part of the headdress of the Sphinx, which Khufu carefully restored. Egyptologist Selim Hassan, who dug out the Sphinx from the surrounding sands in the 1930's, observed there is indeed evidence that portions of the Sphinx were damaged by lightning, and the mark of ancient repairs is very apparent. Also, he noted, sycamore trees once grew to the south of the monument, which had been dated to a great age.

The Stele then ends with the story of how Khufu built small pyramids for himself and his daughters, wife and family, next to the Great Pyramid. Today, the ruins of three small pyramids are indeed situated on the east side of the monument. Archaeologists have found independent evidence that the southernmost of the three small pyramids flanking the Great Pyramid was in fact dedicated to Henutsen, a wife of Khufu. Everything in the inscription thus matches the known facts.

This negates the theory that Khufu’s son Khafre built the Sphinx. Moreover, the Inventory Steele fails to make any claim that Khufu built the Sphinx or the Great Pyramid, and these unsurprising omissions offers more support to the actual ages of the various structures.

Civilizations Lost in Time -Yonaguni Ruins

The Yonaguni ruins as they are known cover a massive 311 miles and actually includes eight separate sites. Divers have reported that in addition to the huge eight story tall structures that many people are familiar with; there is clear evidence of roads, paved streets, huge altar-like formations and a processional walk way surmounted by pylons.

The single largest structure so far discovered lies near the eastern shore of Yonaguni at 100 feet down. It is approximately 240 feet long, 90 feet across and 45 feet high.

Countless accounts from hundreds of cultures around the world tell of a flood that destroyed many if not all former civilizations. The Yonaguni ruins are potentially one example of this extraordinary event's aftermath.

Most orthodox archaeologists & scientists 'believe' the Yonaguni ruins to be natural formations, no surprise obviously. Literally each finding indicating the existence of advanced civilizations dating back any further than 8,000 years, are debunked immediately.

True history throughout the years has either been "buried" or what's already dug up, "confused".

The following structures were reportedly "discovered" off the island of Yonaguni under 60 feet of water 12 years ago. The last time the area was above water was during the Ice Age when the sea level was lower, approximately 10,000 years ago. We're made to believe humans were nomadic hunter gatherers around that same time.

The ruins looks exactly as they should after ages undersea.



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