Canyonitis: Seeing evidence of ancient Egypt in the Grand Canyon

Philip Coppens ^ | 04 Aug 2009 | Philip Coppens

[BGHater]

Shrug. Back when newspapers, were ‘real’.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Seems like something that might interest you...

[hinckley buzzard]

Newspapers were 'real'? Maybe, but hucksters and snake oil salesmen were numerous. I suspect that "Kinkaid" for reasons of his own used this "news" report to gain temporary fame in far away Phoenix, likely to sell some of those "ancient artifacts" to gullible collector/buyers and skip town before the truth caught up with him.

He should have run for office as a democrat. Could have stolen even more, and legally.

[elcid1970]

This may prove that ancient Israelite Hebrew explorers landed on the West Coast and before being exterminated by local Jewish Indians managed to inscribe their Mormon history upon gold plates written in Reformed Egyptian which lay hidden for centuries until discovered in New York by Prophet Joseph Smith and were translated using his Seer Stone in his hat.

Egyptians in the Grand Canyon? How could it have happened any other way?

[BGHater]

'Reformed Egyptian which lay hidden for centuries until discovered in New York' Try Illinois.

Monks Mound
"Monks Mound is bigger than any of the three great pyramids at Giza outside Cairo. “This is the third or fourth biggest pyramid in the world, in terms of volume,” says archaeologist Tim Pauketat of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."

[BGHater]

Monk's Mound

[fso301]

The lack of followup may mean the hoax didn’t go off very well. People just weren’t interested.

[parsifal]

An early public works project.

parsy.

[Talisker]

I’ve always found it curious that the Grand Canyon is so deep but so narrow. One would think that such a long period of development time would have resulted in much more sloped and eroded sides, like virtually every other large, old, deep river canyon. It more looks like a rupture, than an erosion.

[count-your-change]

Anyone that could build the pyramids could surely dig the Grand Canyon. Back then it was known as The Fairly Impressive Canyon though.

[Sherman Logan]

The site is indeed close to a Navajo centre, which are one of the living descendants of the Anasazi, which means “ancient ones” in Navajo.

A more accurate translation is "Ancient Enemies." This has been obscured by PC, under which indigenous peoples, being nonviolent, have no enemies. (Except whitey.)

The Anasazi are not the ancestors of the Navajo, but rather the ancestors of the various Pueblo groups of NS and AZ.

[Sherman Logan]

Make that NM, not NS.

I believe there are few Pueblo groups native to Nova Scotia.

[BGHater]

Don't forget the Japanese.

[Revolting cat!]

Little Egypt now appearing in Arizona?

[ml/nj]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through Before Columbus; Links Between the Old World and Ancient America by Cyrus Gordon. Gordon was a professor at Brandeis. The book was published in 1971. So far I haven't read anything about the Grand Canyon, but there is a lot of interesting information in this book. And there is some timely wisdom about following the "consensus" in academic study.

ML/NJ

[JDoutrider]

Marker

[SunkenCiv]

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[Salamander]

Buy Barry Fell’s books, if you can find them.

[spyone]

Me thinks Jack Andrews wishes this were true, as do I, but alas, no further evidence since a 1909 western newspaper article. This is what they call a “tall tale”