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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..
The new paper, which has not been peer-reviewed, argued that no royal mummies or burial items have ever been found inside the Giza pyramids, despite the ancient Egyptians claiming these were the tombs of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.
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.
