Origyptian Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> >
> > On careful examination, it isn’t clear even that
> > Sitchin’s informant Walter Allen claimed that
> > Brewer witnessed an act of forgery. The claim is
> > that he noticed its results—and yet this
> > conscientious man with an excellent visual memory
> > left no documentary record of what he is supposed
> > to have noticed.
> >
> > M.
>
> If Brewer truly was a conscientious man with an
> excellent visual memory, as your careful
> examination seems to have revealed, he wouldn't
> have any reason to document what he saw in the
> first place. I mean, we have no reason to believe
> that Brewer ever intended to blow the whistle
> publicly on Vyse, or that he would ever need to
> creating an enduring record of what he experienced
> during his alleged gainful employment under Vyse,
> or that he could anticipate that Sitchin,
> Creighton, or Stower would eventually debate what
> he saw almost 2 centuries earlier, or that he
> would even care if anyone other than Walter Allen
> believed him.

Excuse me? Humphries Brewer died half a century before his great-grandson Walter Allen was born.

Of course a conscientious man, being a conscientious man, caring enough (we’re told) to have a “dispute” with Raven and Hill and “words” with Hill and Vyse, would have reason blow the whistle on Vyse and to record what he’d observed for the benefit of posterity.

Especially a man (we’re told) who later worked for Lepsius and tried again (we’re told) to enter the pyramid with Lepsius and was stopped (we’re told) from doing so by Vyse, who was somehow still in Egypt some five years after he had left it.

Especially a man who cared enough to tell his children the story in such detail and with such vividness that it was preserved and passed down in the family’s oral tradition all the way to 1954, complete with the names mentioned, before someone thought of writing it down.

M.