Story by Chris Melore, Assistant Science Editor For Dailymail.Com
An Egyptologist
is making the case that the Great Pyramids were built by an advanced
civilization thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
António
Ambrósio, an independent researcher from the Autonomous University of
Barcelona, detailed the mysterious clues that point to the three main
pyramids at Giza being up to 12,000 years old, predating the Egyptians by millennia.
If
Ambrósio's theory were to be proven correct, it would rewrite the
history of modern humans and expose the existence of a still-unknown
'supercivilization' on Earth that constructed pyramids and other megastructures around the world.
At
the heart of the researcher's case are a set of key inconsistencies
Ambrósio and other scholars have claimed as proof that the Egyptians
only copied the original three pyramids after discovering the ancient structures at Giza..
Moreover,
the original Giza pyramids, currently believed to have been built 4,600
years ago, displayed stunning engineering skill that aligned with star
constellations, featured super-precise stone cuts and had a base that
was almost perfectly level on all sides.
Ambrósio
explained that these incredible engineering feats were never matched by
any of the smaller pyramids confirmed to have been built during the
time of the Egyptians between 2500 and 2150 BC.
The
researcher added that the nearby statue of the Sphinx has shown signs
of water erosion from heavy rain, which hasn't happened in Egypt since
around 5000 to 3000 BC, suggesting that the entire site was already ancient and eroding at the dawn of the Egyptian civilization in 3100 BC.
The
pyramids of Giza were not built by the pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty,
but rather appropriated by them,' Ambrósio stated in the paper entitled
'The Pyramids of Giza: Legacy of an Unknown Civilization.'
'Subsequent
pyramids (and earlier ones, according to the conventional timeline)
would represent imperfect attempts to imitate preexisting structures.'
Ambrósio
claimed that there are no definitive ancient writings from the time
directly tying the pharaohs to the construction of the pyramids.
One
main link is called the Khufu cartouche, a red-ochre painted hieroglyph
containing the name 'Khufu' inside one of the hidden chambers above the
King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
While
many mainstream Egyptologists have concluded the painted hieroglyph is
genuine, skeptics, including authors Scott Creighton and Zecharia
Sitchin, have claimed this mark was faked by Colonel Howard Vyse in
1837.
'No
mummy has ever been found in the pyramids of Giza. The discovery of a
supposed sarcophagus of Khufu, found empty, does not prove that he built
the pyramid - only that he claimed it,' Ambrósio declared.
While
the origins of the main pyramids of Giza are still disputed, multiple
studies have concluded that some of the knowledge and skill to build
these mega structures was lost during Egypt's Fifth and Sixth Dynasties.
The
new paper noted that Egyptian pyramids built after Giza were noticeably
smaller, contained multiple construction flaws, were made with weaker
building materials and did not align with the stars.
Meanwhile, Ambrósio
pointed out that mega structures similar to the Great Pyramids have
been discovered across the globe, which point to the same civilization
sharing their advanced building techniques with other early human
cultures.
The
paper specifically mentions megalithic structures that share
characteristics with the Giza pyramids, including the ancient Incan
citadel Sacsayhuamán in Peru and the city of Baalbek in Lebanon.
The
pyramids of Giza may be the legacy of an unknown earlier civilization,
an advanced culture that mastered lost technologies,' Ambrósio
theorized.
'The
Fourth Dynasty would have reutilized these structures, while subsequent
dynasties attempted, unsuccessfully, to replicate them.'
The researcher added that the ancient Egyptians had their own mythological concept known as Zep Tepi, or 'the First Time.'
It
referred to an initial golden age when the world was created, the gods
emerged from chaos, established a cosmic order, and ruled directly on
Earth before human kings took over.
However,
researchers such as Graham Hancock and Robert Schoch have championed
the fringe theory that Zep Tepi was a real historical period where this
lost civilization thrived approximately 12,000 years ago, in 10,500 BC.
Independent
researcher Matthew LaCroix told Daily Mail that this advanced culture
may have hidden a sophisticated code through geometry, symbolism, and
monument design across the globe to preserve its knowledge ahead of
catastrophic events.
Sparked
by another recent find in Egypt, the discovery of recurring giant
T-shapes, three-level indents and step pyramids carved into ancient
stones worldwide, the symbols have been linked across continents to a
time even older than Zep Tepi, dating back 38,000 to 40,000 years.
According to LaCroix, this civilization tracked cosmic cycles and
embedded teachings about the structure of the universe into monuments
and sacred sites, just as the pyramids at Giza perfectly line up
underneath Orion's Belt.