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Thread #68199 Message #1145960
Posted By: Donuel
25-Mar-04 - 01:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Digging up Mummies on TV
Subject: RE: BS: Digging up Mummies on TV
Well you may rule out archeology as your personal career goal. Which is of course OK, there are plenty of openings in security and fast food.
The best all time Egyptian documentary I ever saw is now treated as if it never existed.
Along with Zawass we descended down 15 meters into the Sphinx. Then down a straight rectangular shaft another 10 meters beneath the Sphinx. A large room bereft of engravings revealed another square hole in the floor that was filled with water about 4 or 5 meters down.
It was said debris blocked that underwater passage.
There are a number of underground aquaducts around the Great Pyramid site that lead to the Great Pyramid.
Zawass must have been severly warned that pursuing this dig was contrary to the Egyptian Antiquities policy of proclaining the Great Pyramid as royal burial chamber for the Pharoh instead of a very clever public works project that supplied irrigation under power of a great hydraulic pump.
This program which I have on tape is one of the most interesting and now RARE example of how archeology runs into to religious/political roadblocks in our day.
IF you want you can build the same hydraulic pump today right from the Great pyramid design.
The only thing that is broken in the Great pyramid are the butterfly valves to make it work (and a few holes that have been blasted with TNT).
The Kings chamber to this day is embedded with ash made from high temoerature cumbustion which ran the whole mechanism.
If you want to google Pyramid hydraulic pump it is all there.
I have met acquaintances of a certain Mr. Kunkle who died many years ago. He was a very modest man who had a great idea. Not a good mix among those that make high powered careers that depend on adhearing to the policy. Here is an equally modest website to explain more... http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/bp/16/built.html