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loveritas Wrote:
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> Hi T Bird,
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> John Anthony West
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> "John Anthony West, in a recent telephone
> conversation, told me that he had recently climbed
> to the upper chambers and is quite convinced that
> the cartouches were painted on the stones at the
> time of building."
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> The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient
> Egypt by Christopher Dunn.
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> Robert Schoch
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> "Having had the chance to see the chambers of
> construction and their inscriptions firsthand, I
> am convinced that
> (1) the inscriptions are genuinely ancient and
> contemporary with the construction of this part of
> the Great Pyramid, and,
> (2) Howard Vyse and his associates did their best
> to accurately transcribe and record the
> inscriptions."
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> Pyramid Quest : Secrets of the Great Pyramid
> and the Dawn of Civilization by Robert
> Schoch.
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> The faithful and true witness must follow where
> the evidence leads without regard to any injury
> received in the quest.
Don't forget Graham:
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> Hi T Bird,
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Who is next?
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> John Anthony West?
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> Robert Schoch ?
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> Me ?
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> John Anthony West
>
> "John Anthony West, in a recent telephone
> conversation, told me that he had recently climbed
> to the upper chambers and is quite convinced that
> the cartouches were painted on the stones at the
> time of building."
>
> The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient
> Egypt by Christopher Dunn.
>
>
>
> Robert Schoch
>
> "Having had the chance to see the chambers of
> construction and their inscriptions firsthand, I
> am convinced that
> (1) the inscriptions are genuinely ancient and
> contemporary with the construction of this part of
> the Great Pyramid, and,
> (2) Howard Vyse and his associates did their best
> to accurately transcribe and record the
> inscriptions."
>
> Pyramid Quest : Secrets of the Great Pyramid
> and the Dawn of Civilization by Robert
> Schoch.
>
>
> The faithful and true witness must follow where
> the evidence leads without regard to any injury
> received in the quest.
Don't forget Graham:
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As John West kindly reported in his open letter to Stower I have changed my views on the validity of the forgery theory. The relieving chambers are strictly off limits to the public and are extremely difficult to gain access to. I had been unable to obtain permission to visit them prior to the publication of Keeper/Message in 1996. However, in December 1997, Dr Zahi Hawass allowed me to spend an entire day exploring these chambers. There were no restrictions on where I looked and I had ample time to examine the hieroglyphs closely, under powerful lights. Cracks in some of the joints reveal hieroglyphs set far back into the masonry. No 'forger' could possibly have reached in there after the blocks had been set in place - blocks, I should add, that weigh tens of tons each and that are immovably interlinked with one another. The only reasonable conclusion is the one which orthodox Egyptologists have already long held - namely that the hieroglyphs are genuine Old Kingdom graffiti and that they were daubed on the blocks before construction began.
I have stated my view on this matter several times in public lectures during and indeed before 1998. In my September 1998 book "Heaven's Mirror" (with photographer Santha Faiia), and in the accompanying television series "Quest for the Lost Civilization", I likewise make absolutely clear my full acceptance that the Great Pyramid (or at any rate most of it) was built during the Fourth Dynasty.
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