The following is an
intriguing article entitled
"Archeological
Coverups", by David Hatcher
Childress in the above NEXUS magazine.
Following that is a
newspaper article from
a 1909 newspaper
indicating a bizarre suppressed find in the Grand Canyon area.
It indicates either a
hoax published at
the time OR
that the
Smithsonian and/or the government is
covering up details of past
archeological discoveries that would rock current understanding of
the past.
Despite KeelyNet being primarily a science
based board, this article
intrigues us because of the similarity in
information suppression to
"protect the people"....this would
appear to be the reason WHY we
don't have working free energy and anti-grav
devices as well
as
absolute cures for most terminal diseases.
Most of us are familiar with the last scene
in the popular Indiana
Jones archeological adventure film RAIDERS OF
THE LOST ARK in which
an important historical artefact,
the Ark of the Covenant from the
warehouse, never to be seen again, thus ensuring that
no history
books will have to be
rewritten and no history professor will have
to revise the lecture that he has been
giving for the last forty
years.
While the film was fiction, the scene in
which an important ancient
relic is buried in a warehouse is
uncomfortably close to reality for
many researchers. To
those who investigate
allegations of
archaeological cover-ups, there are disturbing indications that the
most important archaeological institute in the United
States
Smithsonian Institute, an independent
federal agency, has
been
actively suppressing some of the
most interesting and
important
archaeological discoveries made in the Americas
The Vatican
books in their vast
cellars, without allowing
the outside world
access to them. These secret treasures, often
of a controversial
historical or religious nature,
are allegedly suppressed by the
Catholic Church because they might damage the church's credibility,
or perhaps cast their official texts in
doubt. Sadly, there
is
overwhelming evidence that something very
similar is happening with
the Smithsonian Institution.
The cover-up and alleged
suppression of archaeological evidence
began in late 1881 when John Wesley Powell,
the geologist famous for
exploring the Grand Canyon , appointed
Cyrus Thomas as the director
of the Eastern Mound
Division of the
Smithsonian Institution's
Bureau of Ethnology.
When Thomas came to the Bureau of Ethnology
he was a
"pronounced believer in the existence of a race of Mound Builders,
distinct from the American
Indians."
However, John Wesley Powell,
the director of
the Bureau of
Ethnology, a very sympathetic man toward the
American Indians, had
lived with the peaceful
Winnebago Indians of
Wisconsin for many
years as a
youth and felt that
American Indians were
unfairly
thought of as primitive and savage.
The Smithsonian began to promote the idea
that Native Americans, at
that time being exterminated in the Indian
Wars, were descended from
advanced civilisations and were worthy of
respect and protection.
They also began a program of suppressing any
archaeological evidence
that lent credence to the school of thought known
as Diffusionism, a
school which believes that
throughout history there
has been
widespread dispersion of culture and
civilisation via contact by
ship and major trade routes.
The Smithsonian opted for
the opposite school,
known as
Isolationism.
Isolationism holds that most
civilisations are
isolated from each other and that there has
been very little contact
between them, especially those that
are separated by
bodies of
water.
In this intellectual war that started in the 1880s,
it was
held that even contact
between the civilisations of the Ohio
not have any
contact with such
advanced cultures as the Mayas,
Toltecs, or Aztecs in Mexico Central
America . By Old World
standards this is an extreme, and even
ridiculous idea, considering
that the river system
reached to the Gulf of Mexico and these
civilisations were as close as the opposite
shore of the gulf. It
was like saying that cultures in the Black Sea area could not have
had contact with the Mediterranean .
When the contents of many ancient mounds and
pyramids of the Midwest
were examined, it was
shown that the
history of the Mississippi
had been in contact with Europe and other areas. Not only that,
the
contents of many mounds
revealed burials of huge men,
sometimes
seven or eight feet
tall, in full armour with swords and sometimes
huge treasures.
(Vangard note..>Eastern Indian texts say that at one time men lived
thousands of years and grew very tall in
direct proportion to their
age, as does
the Bible with the comment "and there were GIANTS
in
the earth in those days...")
For instance, when Spiro Mound in Oklahoma
1930's, a tall man in full armour was
discovered along with a pot of
thousands of pearls and other artefacts, the
largest such treasure
so far documented. The whereabouts of the man in armour is
unknown
and it is
quite likely that
it eventually was
taken to the
Smithsonian Institution.
In a private
conversation with a well-known
historical researcher
(who shall remain nameless),
I was told that a former employee
of
the Smithsonian, who was
dismissed for defending
the view of
diffusionism in the Americas
civilisations may have visited the shores of
North and South America
during the many millenia
before Columbus
Smithsonian at one time had actually taken
a barge full of unusual
artefacts out into the Atlantic and dumped them in the ocean.
Though the idea of
the Smithsonian' covering
up a valuable
archaeological find is difficult
to accept for
some, there is,
sadly, a great deal of evidence to
suggest that the
Smithsonian
Institution has knowingly covered
up and 'lost'
important
archaeological relics. The
STONEWATCH NEWSLETTER of the
Gungywamp
Society in Connecticut
coffins discovered in 1892
in Alabama
Smithsonian Institution and then
'lost'. According to
the
newsletter, researcher Frederick J. Pohl
wrote an intriguing letter
in 1950 to the late Dr. T.C. Lethbridge, a
British archaeologist.
The letter from Pohl
stated, "A professor
of geology sent me a
reprint (of the) Smithsonian
Institution, THE CRUMF BURIAL CAVE by
Frank Burns, US Geological
Survey, from the
report of the US
southern branch of the Warrior River
County, Alabama Mobile Bay
of wood hollowed out
by fire, aided
by stone or copper chisels.
Either of these coffins were taken to
the Smithsonian. They were
about 7.5 feet long, 14" to 18"
wide, 6" to 7" deep. Lids
open.
"I wrote recently to
the Smithsonian, and received a reply March
11th from F.M. Setzler, Head Curator of
Department of Anthropology
(He said) 'We
have not been
able to find the specimens in our
collections, though records show that they
were received."
David Barron, President of the Gungywamp
Society was eventually told
by the Smithsonian in
1992 that the coffins were actually wooden
troughs and that they could not be viewed
anyway because they were
housed in an asbestos-contaminated
warehouse. This warehouse was to
be closed for
the next ten years and no one was allowed in
except
the Smithsonian personnel!
Ivan T. Sanderson, a
well-known zoologist and
frequent guest on
Johnny Carson's TONIGHT SHOW in the 1960s (usually
with an exotic
animal with a
pangolin or a lemur), once related
a curious story
about a letter he
received regarding an engineer who was stationed
on the Aleutian island of Shemya
building an airstrip, his
crew bulldozed a group
of hills and
discovered under several sedimentary
layers what appeared
to be
human remains. The
Alaskan mound was
in fact a
graveyard of
gigantic human remains, consisting of crania
and long leg bones.
The crania measured from 22 to 24 inches from
base to crown. Since
an adult skull normally
measures about eight inches from back to
front, such a
large crania would imply
an immense size
for a
normally proportioned human. Furthermore, every skull was
said to
have been neatly trepanned (a process of
cutting a hole in the upper
portion of the skull).
In fact, the
habit of flattening the skull of an infant and forcing
it to grow in an elongated shape was
a practice used
by ancient
Peruvians, the Mayas, and the Flathead
Indians of Montana
tried to gather further proof, eventually
receiving a letter
from
another member of the
unit who confirmed the
report. The letters
both indicated that the Smithsonian Institution
had collected the
remains, yet nothing else
was heard. Sanderson seemed convinced
that the Smithsonian Institution
had received the bizarre relics,
but wondered why they would not release the
data. He asks, "...is
it that these people cannot face rewriting
all the textbooks?"
In 1944 an accidental discovery of an even
more controversial nature
was made by Waldemar Julsrud at Acambaro , Mexico
the state of
Guanajuato, 175 miles northwest of Mexico City
strange archaeological site there yielded over
33,500 objects of
ceramic;stone, including jade; and knives of
obsidian (sharper than
steel and still used today in heart surgery). Jalsrud, a prominent
local German merchant, also found statues ranging from less than an
inch to six feet in length depicting great
reptiles, some of them in
ACTIVE ASSOCIATION with humans - generally
eating them, but in some
bizarre statuettes an erotic
association was indicated.
To
observers many of these creatures resembled
dinosaurs.
Jalsrud crammed this collection into twelve
rooms of his expanded
house.
There startling representations of Negroes, Orientals,
and
bearded Caucasians were included
as were motifs
of Egyptians,
Sumerian and other ancient non-hemispheric civilisations,
as well as
portrayals of Bigfoot and
aquatic monsterlike creatures,
weird
human-animal mixtures, and a host of other inexplicable creations.
Teeth from an extinct Ice Age horse, the
skeleton of a mammoth, and
a number of
human skulls were found at the same site as the ceramic
artefacts.
Radio-carbon dating in the
laboratories of the
University of
method of dating pottery were performed to determine the age
of the
objects.
Results indicated the objects
were made about 6,500 years
ago, around 4,500 BC.
A team of experts at another university,
shown Jalrud's half-dozen samples but unaware
of their origin, ruled
out the possibility that they could have been modern
reproductions.
However, they fell silent when told of their
controversial source.
In 1952, in an effort to debunk this
weird collection which
was
gaining a certain amount of fame, American archaeologist Charles C.
DiPeso claimed to have
minutely examined the
then 32,000 pieces
within not more than four hours spent at the home of Julsrud. In a
forthcoming book, long delayed
by continuing developments
in his
investigation, archaeological
investigator John H. Tierney, who has
lectured on the case for decades, points out that to have done that
DiPeso would have had
to have inspected
133 pieces per minute
steadily for four hours,
whereas in actuality,
it would have
required weeks merely to
have separated the
massive jumble of
exhibits and arranged them properly for a
valid evaluation.
Tierney, who collaborated with the later
Professor Hapgood, the late
William N. Russell, and others in the investigation, charges
that
the Smithsonian Institution and
other archaeological authorities
conducted a campaign of disinformation
against the discoveries. The
Smithsonian had, early in the
controversy, dismissed the
entire
Acambaro collection as an
elaborate hoax. Also,
utilising the
Freedom of Information Act, Tierney discovered that practically the
entirety of the Smithsonian's Julsrud case
files are missing.
After two expeditions to the
site in
1955 and 1968,
Professor
Charles Hapgood, a professor
of history and anthropology at the
investigation of Acambaro in
a privately printed
book entitled
MYSTERY IN ACAMBARO. Hapgood was initially an open-minded skeptic
concerning the collection but
became a believer
after his first
visit in 1955, at which time he
witnessed some of the figures being
excavated and even dictated to the diggers
where he wanted them to
dig.
Adding to the
mind-boggling aspects of this controversy is the fact
that the Instituto Nacional de
Antropologia e Historia, through the
late Director of PreHispanic Monuments, Dr.
Eduardo Noguera, (who,
as head of
an official investigating
team at the site, issued a
report which Tierney will be publishing), admitted
"the apparent
scientific legality with which these objects wer found."
Despite
evidence of their own eyes, however,
officials declared that because
of the objects 'fantastic'
nature, they had to
have been a hoax
played on Julsrud!
A disappointed but ever-hopeful Julsrud died.
His house was sold
and the collection put in storage. The collection is not currently
open to the public.
Perhaps the most amazing suppression of all is the excavation
of an
Egyptian tomb by the Smithsonian itself in Arizona
page story of
the PHOENIX GAZETTE
on 5 April 1909 (follows this
article), gave a highly
detailed report of the discovery
and
excavation of a rock-cut vault by an
expedition led by a Professor
have absolutely no knowledge of the discovery
or its discoverers.
The World Explorers Club decided to check on this story by calling
the Smithsonian in Washington , D.C.
chance of getting any real information. After
speaking briefly to
an operator, we were
transferred to a
Smithsonian staff
archaeologist, and a woman's voice came on the phone and
identified
herself.
I told her that I was investigating a
story from a 1909
Phoenix
newspaper article about the
Smithsonian Institution's having
excavated rock-cut vaults in
the Grand Canyon where Egyptian
artefacts had been discovered,
and whether the
Smithsonian
Institution could give me any more
information on the subject.
"Well, the first thing I can tell you,
before we go any
further,"
she said, "is that no Egyptian artefacts of any kind have
ever been
found in North or South America . Therefore, I
can tell you that the
Smithsonian Institute has never
been involved in
any such
excavations." She was
quite helpful and polite but,
in the end,
knew nothing.
Neither she nor anyone else with whom I spoke could
find any record of
the discovery or
either G.E. Kinkaid
and
Professor S.A. Jordan
While it cannot be discounted that the entire
story is an elaborate
newspaper hoax, the fact
that it was on the front page,
named the
prestigious Smithsonian Institution, and
gave a highly
detailed
story that went on for
several pages, lends a great deal to its
credibility.
It is hard to believe such a story could have come out
of thin air.
Is the Smithsonian Institution
covering up an
archaeological
discovery of immense importance? If
this story is true it would
radically change the current
view that there was no transoceanic
contact in pre-Columbian times,
and that all American Indians, on
both continents, are descended from Ice
Age explorers who
came
across the Bering Strait . (Any information on G.E. Kinkaid
and
Professor S.A. Jordan
may have would be greatly
appreciated.....write to Childress at
the
World Explorers Club at the above address.)
Is the idea that ancient Egyptians came to
the Arizona
ancient past so objectionable
and preposterous that
it must be
covered up?
Perhaps the Smithsonian
Institution is more interested
in maintaining the status quo than rocking
the boat with astonishing
new discoveries that overturn
previously accepted academic
teachings.
Historian and linguist Carl
Hart, editor of WORLD EXPLORER, then
obtained a hiker's map of the Grand Canyon from a
bookstore in
the area on
the north side of the canyon has Egyptian names. The
area around Ninety-four Mile Creek and
Trinity Creek had areas (rock
formations, apparently) with names like Tower of Set Tower of Ra
area were such names
as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister,
relationship between these places
and the alleged
Egyptian
discoveries in the Grand Canyon ?
We called a
state archaeologist at the Grand Canyon , and were told
that the early explorers had just liked
Egyptian and Hindu names,
but that it
was true that this area was off
limits to hikers
or
other visitors, "because of dangerous
caves."
Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names
in
the Grand Canyon is a
forbidden zone - no one is allowed into this
large area.
We could only conclude that this was the area
where the vaults were
located.
Yet today, this area is curiously off-limits to all hikers
and even, in large part, park personnel.
I believe that the
discerning reader will see that if only a small
part of the
"Smithsoniangate"
evidence is true,
then our most
hallowed archaeological institution has been actively involved
in
suppressing evidence for advanced
American cultures, evidence for
ancient voyages of various cultures to North America , evidence for
anomalistic giants and other oddball artefacts, and evidence
that
tends to disprove the
official dogma that
is now the history of
The Smithsonian's Board of
Regents still refuses
to open its
meetings to the news media or the public. If Americans
were ever
allowed inside the 'nation's
attic', as the Smithsonian has been
called, what skeletons might they find?
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from the front page of THE PHOENIX GAZETTE
of April 5th, 1909
EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON
Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern being
brought to light
Remarkable finds indicate ancient people
migrated from Orient
The latest news of the progress of the explorations
of what is now
regarded by scientists as
not only the
oldest archeological
discovery in the United States
world, which was mentioned some time ago in
the Gazette, was brought
to the city yesterday by G.E. Kinkaid, the
explorer who found the
great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon during a trip
from
several months ago.
According to the story related to the
Gazette by Mr. Kinkaid, the
archaelogists of the Smithsonian Institute,
which is financing the
expeditions, have made discoveries
which almost conclusively prove
that the race which inhabited this mysterious cavern, hewn in solid
rock by human
hands, was of oriental origin, possibly
from Egypt
tracing back to Ramses.
If their theories
are borne out by the
translation of the tablets engraved with heiroglyphics, the mystery
of the prehistoric peoples of North America , their ancient arts, who
they were and whence they came, will be
solved. Egypt Nile ,
and Arizona Colorado
running back to ages
which staggers the
wildest fancy of the
fictionist.
A Thorough Examination
Under the direction of Prof. S. A. Jordan,
the Smithsonian Institute
is now prosecuting the most thorough explorations,
which will be
continued until the last link in the chain is
forged. Nearly a mile
underground, about 1480 feet
below the surface,
the long main
passage has been delved
into, to find another mammoth chamber from
which radiates scores of passageways, like
the spokes of a wheel.
Several hundred rooms have been
discovered, reached by passageways
running from the main passage, one of them
having been explored for
854 feet and
another 634 feet.
The recent finds include articles
which have never been known as native to this
country, and doubtless
they had their origin
in the orient.
War weapons, copper
instruments, sharp-edged and hard as steel,
indicate the high state
of civilization reached by these strange
people. So interested have
the scientists become that preparations are being made to equip the
camp for extensive studies, and the
force will be
increased to
thirty or forty persons.
Mr. Kinkaid's Report
Mr. Kinkaid was the first white child born in
Idaho
explorer and hunter all his life, thirty years having been in the
service of the Smithsonian Institute. Even
briefly recounted, his
history sounds fabulous, almost grotesque.
"First, I would impress that the cavern
is nearly inaccessible. The
entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheer canyon
wall. It is located on
government land and no visitor will be
allowed there under penalty
of trespass.
The scientists wish to work unmolested, without fear
of archeological discoveries being
disturbed by curio
or relic
hunters.
A trip there would be fruitless, and the
visitor would be
sent on
his way.
The story of how I found the
cavern has been related, but
in a paragraph: I was journeying down the Colorado river in a
boat,
alone, looking for mineral. Some forty-two miles up the river from
the El Tovar
Crystal canyon, I saw on the east
wall, stains in the
sedimentary formation about 2,000 feet
above the river bed. There
was no trail
to this point, but I finally
reached it with
great
difficulty.
Above a shelf
which hid it from view from the
river, was the mouth
of the cave.
There are steps leading from this entrance some thirty
yards to what was, at the time the cavern
was inhabited, the level
of the river.
When I saw the chisel marks on the
wall inside the
entrance, I became interested, securing my gun and went in. During
that trip I went back several hundred feet
along the main passage
till I came to the crypt in which I
discovered the mummies. One of
these I stood
up and photographed
by flashlight. I gathered a
number of relics, which I carried down
the Colorado Yuma
whence I shipped them to Washington
Following this, the explorations were undertaken.
The Passages
"The main passageway is
about 12 feet wide, narrowing to nine feet
toward the farther end. About 57
feet from the entrance, the first
side-passages branch off to the right and
left, along which, on both
sides, are a number of rooms about the size
of ordinary living rooms
of today, though some are 30 by 40 feet
square. These are
entered
by oval-shaped doors and are ventilated by round air spaces
through
the walls into the passages. The
walls are about
three feet six
inches in thickness.
The passages are chiseled or hewn as straight
as could be laid out
by an engineer. The
ceilings of many of the rooms converge to a
center.
The side-passages near the
entrance run at a sharp angle
from the main hall, but toward the rear they
gradually reach a right
angle in direction.
The Shrine
"Over a hundred feet
from the entrance is the cross-hall,
several
hundred feet long, in
which are found the idol, or image, of the
people's god, sitting cross-legged, with a
lotus flower or lily in
each hand.
The cast of the face is oriental, and the carving
this
cavern.
The idol almost resembles Buddha, though the scientists are
not certain as to what religious worship it
represents. Taking into
consideration everything found thus
far, it is possible that this
worship most resembles the ancient people of Tibet
Surrounding this idol are smaller images,
some very beautiful in
form; others crooked-necked and
distorted shapes, symbolical,
probably, of good and
evil. There are
two large cactus
with
protruding arms, one on each side of
the dais on
which the god
squats.
All this is carved out of hard rock resembling marble.
In
the opposite corner of
this cross-hall were
found tools of all
descriptions, made of copper. These
people undoubtedly knew
the
lost art of hardening this metal, which has
been sought by chemicals
for centureis without result.
On a bench
running around the
workroom was some charcoal
and other material probably used in the
process.
There is also slag and stuff similar
to matte, showing
that these ancients smelted ores, but so far
no trace of where
or
how this was done has been discovered, nor
the origin of the ore.
"Among the other finds
are vases or
urns and cups of copper and
gold, made very artistic
in design. The pottery
work includes
enameled ware and glazed
vessels. Another passageway
leads to
granaries such as are
found in the oriental temples.
They contain
seeds of varous kinds. One very large storehouse
has not yet been
entered, as it is
twelve feet high and can be
reached only from
above.
Two copper hooks extend
on the edge, which indicates that
some sort of ladder was attached. These
granaries are rounded, as
the materials of which they are constructed,
I think, is a ver hard
cement.
A gray metal is
also found in this cavern, which puzzles
the scientists, for its identity
has not been
established. It
resembles platinum. Strewn promiscuously over the floor everywhere
are what people call "cats eyse', a yellow stone of no
great value.
Each one is engraved with the head of the
Malay type.
The Hieroglyphics
"On all the urns,
or walls over
doorways , and tablets of stone
which were found by the image are the mysterious hieroglyphics, the
key to which the Smithsonian Institute hopes
yet to discover. The
engraving on the tables
probably has something
to do with the
religion of the people. Similar
hieroglyphics have been found in
southern Arizona
are found.
One is of prehistoric type.
The Crypt
"The tomb or crypt
in which the mummies were found is one of the
largest of the chambers, the walls slanting
back at an
angle of
about 35 degrees. On these are tiers of mummies, each one
occupying
a separate hewn shelf.
At the head of each is a
small bench, on
which is found copper cups and pieces of
broken swords. Some of the
mummies are covered with clay, and all are
wrapped in a bark fabric.
The urns or
cups on the lower tiers are
crude, while as the higher
shelves are reached, the urns are finer
in design, showing a later
stage of civilization. It is worthy of note that all
the mummies
examined so far have proved to be male, no
children or females being
buried here.
This leads to the
belief that this exterior section
was the warriors' barracks.
"Among the discoveries no bones of
animals have been
found, no
skins, no clothing, no bedding. Many of the rooms are bare but for
water vessels. One
room, about 40 by
700 feet, was probably the
main dining hall, for cooking utensils are
found here. What these
people lived on is a problem, though it is
presumed that they came
south in the
winter and farmed in the valleys,
going back north in
the summer.
Upwards of 50,000 people
could have lived
in the caverns
comfortably.
One theory is that the present Indian
tribes found in
inhabited the cave. Undoubtedly
a good many
thousands of years
before the Christian era, a people lived here
which reached a high
stage of civilization. The
chronology of human history is full of
gaps.
Professor Jordan is much enthused
over the discoveries and
believes that the find
will prove of
incalculable value in
archeological work.
"One thing I have
not spoken of, may be of interest.
There is one
chamber of the passageway to which is
not ventilated, and when we
approached it a deadly, snaky smell struck
us. Our
light would not
penetrate the gloom, and
until stronger ones are available we will
not know what the chamber contains. Some
say snakes, but other
boo-hoo this idea and think it may contain a
deadly gas or chemicals
used by the ancients. No sounds are heard, but it smells snaky just
the same.
The whole underground
installation gives one of
shaky
nerves the creeps. The
gloom is like a weight on one's shoulders,
and our flashlights and candles only
make the darkness
blacker.
Imagination can revel in
conjectures and ungodly daydreams
back
through the ages that
have elapsed till the mind reels
dizzily in
space."
An Indian Legend
In connection with this
story, it is notable that among the Hopi
Indians the tradition is told that their ancestors once lived in an
underworld in the Grand Canyon till dissension arose between
the
good and the
bad, the people
of one heart and the people of
two
hearts.
Machetto, who was their chief,
counseled them to leave the
underworld, but there was no way out. The chief then caused a tree
to grow up
and pierce the
roof of the underworld, and then the
people of one heart climbed out. They
tarried by Paisisvai (Red
River), which is the Colorado
They sent out
a message to the Temple
blessing of peace, good will and rain for
people of one heart. That
messenger never returned, but today at the Hopi villages at sundown
can be seen the old men of the tribe out
on the housetops gazing
toward the sun, looking for the
messenger. When he returns,
their
lands and ancient dwelling place will be restored to them. That is
the tradition.
Among the engravings of animals in the cave
is seen the image of a
heart over the spot where it is located. The legend
was learned by
W.E. Rollins, the artist, during a year spent
with the Hopi Indians.
There are two
theories of the origin of the Egyptians.
One is that
they came from Asia ; another that the racial cradle was in the upper
of the Egyptians. The discoveries in
the Grand Canyon may throw
further light on human evolution and
prehistoric ages.
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