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Zawi Hawass Strikes Again

The Giza Wall:

One of the newest developments on the Giza Plateau is the installation of a 7 metre high concrete wall several kilometres in length, which will encompass the necropolis. It has already spoiled the open panorama that made Giza such an inspiring site, and it has literally shut off the Nazlat Al Salman Village from it's natural connection with the Plateau. I, like many interested in Egypt, am dismayed to see such a project being carried out.

These photos show the unfinished Wall, with 3.5 metres high concrete facade and 3.5 metres tall metal poles to receive metal grill fence.

The Wall, when finished, will be 7 metres high, and will run all around the Giza Necropolis (7 km). It will have security-guard posts with video-camera surveillance and lighting. A sort of 'Berlin Wall' for the Pyramids.

To date about 2 kms have been partially completed along the eastern boundary of the Giza Necropolis.

And in addition, for those interested in the 'Gantenbrink Door' located at the end of one of the 'air shafts' in the Great Pyramid:

From very reliable sources it has become known that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) have allocated licenses to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC to open the 'door' on a 'Live' TV broadcast transmission scheduled for September. This will coincide with a National Geographic TV special 'Profile' on Zahi Hawass, telling the story of his life from childhood to present, with an array of "friends" and colleagues (including Omar Sharif and Mark Lehner) praising his achievements. Actors will play the part of Hawass as a boy and youth.

One can only conclude from this sort of carry-on that Zawi Hawass is beginning to see the Giza Necropolis, and much of the Egyptian "Dynastic" sites, as his own personal playground, and it appears that he wants no-one to intrude on his turf bar his toadies, such as Lehner.

Interesting to note that the SRI (Stanford Research Institute), funded by the American CIA has recently shown enormous interest in the Great Pyramid since a recent study from the Advisory Board of the Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association indicated that the structure can produce strong electromagnetic currents using the water ducts located beneath the edifice, in the recently discovered chamber termed the "Tomb of Osiris", or some such tripe by, you guessed it, Zawi Hawass. Since this discovery, Hawass has had many meetings with high-level officials from SRI (remember, funded by the American CIA), and has become increasingly elusive and stringent with the sites that visitors and tourists are permitted to access within the Giza Necropolis. In addition, no-one has been allowed access to this so-called "Tomb of Osiris".

So what has the CIA have to be interested in? What has been discovered?

For more information, email me, or stay posted.

16th July 2002.

26th August 2002

As can be seen by the above picture, taken by Upuaut II, there appears two copper 'handles' that seem to function in such a way that when the stone slab to which they are attached was dropped into place from above, they prevent the removal of the slab back out through the original insertion slot. There also exists in the bottom right hand corner of this slab, or Door, a small notch which, upon closer inspection, seems to give a direct opening to the other side. It is the presence of these copper handles and this small notch, which gives a glimpse of the other side of this enigmatic doorway, that has many people calling for the opening of this doorway.

Peculiarly, immediately after the dicovery of this Door, Rudolf Gantenbrink's team was asked to pack up and leave, and has never since returned. Additionally, when this doorway is finally opened, after more than nineyears of waiting, Rudolf Gantenbrink himself will not be permitted to oversee the robotics; it will be done by a member of Zawi Hawass's loyal staff, and only under supervision by Hawass himself. In fact, Gantenbrink, for reasons unknown, has not been allowed anywhere near the Great Pyramid for a number of years now, neither as a researcher, nor as a tourist.

Secondly, Hawass has repeatedly asserted his opinion that there will be nothing of value to find behind the door, and recently has been quoted as saying that he believes that it is not even a doorway. Pride is often misplaced, and Hawass's pride seems to be clouding his judgement. He is an individual that does not tolerate fools easily (and understandably), and it is quite clear that those who do not support his viewpoints on the chronology of Ancient Egypt have fallen through his classification system as fools. The 'pyramidiots' - Hawass's term for all those that do not agree with his chronology - have been vocal supporters for the opening of this so-called Door, and it is likely that Hawass will avoid public humiliation at all costs.

The National Geographic Society along with Fox will, in September 16th 2002, show a live opening of the Gantenbrink Door in Giza. This expedition is to be headed by Dr. Hawass and Mark Lehner. From all accounts, Hawass would like this event to go smoothly, and thus it would be an obvious conclusion to draw that the Gantenbrink Door may already have been opened, to ensure no surprises for the coordinators or hosts of this show, nor humiliation at finding something to give the 'pyramidiots' any basis for their version of histories events.

The findings behind this Gantenbrink Door have been speculated on for some time, and with fair cause. Nineyears of speculation have generated some wild theories. What will be found behind this Door has been postulated to be everything from just another wall, to the much sought-after Hall of Records, first mentioned by the Sleeping Prophet Edgar Cayce in the 1930's. Although the prime location for this Hall of Records is more than likely beneath the paws of the Sphinx, due to recent seismic sounding, which revealed a number of chambers beneath this ancient edifice, of which an unsusual proportion appear rectangular - a shape that in geological circumstances does not occur naturally at the frequency seen beneath this giant leoline form.

Although its location has in ancient texts, recopied by the ancient Greeks, state that there are three Halls, one under the Sphinx, one in the Yucatan, and another at the lost site of Atlantis. This is at present mere conjecture, and thus no conclusions can be drawn.

17th September 2002.

"Breaking News: Reputable German News Agencies are reporting, that Dr.
                         Hawass and the National Geographic technical team have ALREADY
                         ventured into the Gantenbrink-Shaft in August for robot test runs.
                         Radar measurements have indicated that the wall of the tiny door is
                         only 9 cm thick and moveable. The 2 strange copper clamps are have
                         now been interpreted as handles.

                         "According to the News Agencies, Dr. Hawass stated: "This could
                         probably very well be some kind of door." With this statement he
                         hopes to quiet down the nay-sayers who expect that there will be
                         nothing else but stones and rubble behind the Door.

                         "Question: WHO, for years (!) maintained quite a staunch position
                         saying that there simply are NO further mysteries in and around the
                         Giza Pyramids? Hawass anyone? Why the sudden turn in opinion that
                         there actually COULD be something behind the Door?

                         "The technical and camera teams now hope that while the TV-audience is
                         watching they will be successful drilling a hole into the Door's wall
                         to insert an endoscope through it. Emmy-Winner Schadler: "A camera,
                         mounted to the end of the endoscope, could then reveal pictures of
                         the other, mysterious side of the door."

Of course the endoscope has since been inserted, and the discovery of an antechamber has been announced, on "live" television, on National Geographic channel in the US.

From a viewer in Bombay, India:

"The peephole was already drilled earlier. It was not drilled live. This clearly means that it was known to the team what lay beyond.

"It was not truly a live event. It is not that it should have been a true live event. It is just that National Geographic should not have resorted to misleading viewers by claiming that the knowledge of what lay beyond will be uncovered live."

Well said, Rajesh Gajra.

Also from our man on the inside:

"Also, NG permitted Hawass to state that those that believe in the pyramids having been built by lost civilisations to be "idiots". Again, it is within an individual's right to opine. But in true journalistic spirit NG should have asked any one among the the lost civilzation believers about their opinion, in order for a truly balanced report to have been submitted."

So it seems that the "live" presentation was not 'live" at all. One must wonder how many other false statements surrounding this topic have been submitted as truth. Very little, it appears.

Finally, the Gantenbrink Door, sited at the end of a 200-foot long tunnel eminating from the Queens Chamber, in the Great Pyramid of Giza, has been opened for the first time in more than 4,500 years.

This event was televised on US television live and under the supervision of Zawi Hawass. And the findings of this monumentous occasion? The team used a specialised robotic drill to cut a hole in the Door, in order to insert an endoscope to view the other side.

What they found was a chamber, or more precisely, an antechamber. It is 8 inches square, and on the opposite wall to the Gantenbrink Door, lies yet another door.

For relatively good quality images, click here http://www.socweb.de/upuaut/.

If we look closely at the images of the new door, we can see a small notch cut into the base, above a slight track mark, or groove cut into the "floor" of the antechamber. Only time and speculation will give us an indication as to what it could be, and how it was formed.

This may not have been the first time that this antechamber has been seen in the past ten years. From the A.A.S.R.A. (Archaeology, Astronautics & SETI Research Association): (from http://www.legendarytimes.com/news/index_e.html)

23rd September 2002

A week after the "opening" of the famed Gantenbrink Door at the end of a 200-foot long shaft coming off the southern side of the Queens' Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza, it seems that the same nimble robot, Upuaut II, has been used, away from prying cameras, to take a look into the northern shaft from the Queens Chamber. And the discovery? Another door! Nearly identical to the Gantenbrink Door opposite, it also has two copper handles, and is located the same distance up the shaft as its southern, more well-known, counterpart.
An image of this new door can be seen below.

For those unfamiliar with the layout of the Great Pyramid, a cross-section image has been supplied, showing the two shafts coming from the Queens' Chamber, below the Kings' Chamber, labelled here as "vents", as this was thought to be their function prior to the discovery of the Gantenbrink Door.

Hawass has been noted to have said that there are plans being laid to drill this new door in the northern shaft. Hopefully it won't take as long as it did for the last door to be "opened"!

For a streaming video of the "live" opening of the Gantenbrink Door, see http://www.msnbc.com/news/825152.asp?0dm=C13LT&cp1=1, a generic report from Reuters on the future of the exploration of the Great Pyramid.

For more information, see the updates listed below.

28th October 2002

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http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=397&category=Science

It seems there is every likelihood that the people that drilled the hole in the Gantenbrink Door in September are planning on going back into the shaft to have a look at the dark side of the Door.

And regarding the second Door, found in the northern shaft of the Queens� Chamber a week after the drilling of the original Gantenbrink Door, located in the southern shaft, it seems that there are plans to assess it using remote sensing technology to determine whether this second door can be drilled in a similar fashion as the first Door, the Gantenbrink Door.

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12th December 2002

Figure: Doors 1 and 2 are in the southern shaft rising from the Queen's Chamber on the left of the above diagram. Door 1 has often been referred to as the Gantebrink Door. Door 2 is the rough-hewn door found seven inches behind the Gantenbrink Door. The most recently discovered Door 3 is on the northern shaft rising from the same chamber. Both Door 1 and Door 3 have copper pins, staples or handles. Door 1 and Door 3 also block the two respective shafts at approximately the same distance from the Queen's Chamber: 210 feet. The actual path to Door 3 is now known to have three turns in it to get past the Grand Gallery. No one yet knows what is behind Door 2 and Door 3.

It has recently been confirmed that the so-called Gantenbrink Door, the small apparent door at the end of the southern shaft of the Queens' Chamber in the Great Pyramid, explored and discovered on March 22nd, 1993 (11:05am) by Rudolf Gantenbrink using his robot, Upuaut II, meaning "Opener of the Ways" in old Egypt, will be opened for the public to view.