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Appendix B

WROUGHT IRON FOUND IN THE GREAT PYRAMID

W
as copper the only metal available to the ancient Egyptians? Not
-withstanding the fact that cutting granite with copper chisels is an impossibility, Egyptologists have asserted that the pyramid
builders predated the Bronze Age, and, therefore, were limited in their choice of metals with which to make their tools. Therefore, they say that copper was the only metal that the ancient Egyptians used to fashion the stones with which they built the Great Pyramid. They say this while evidence of prehistoric iron—proving that the ancient Egyptians had developed and used it when building the Great Pyramid—is in the keeping of the British Museum. The discoverers of this piece of iron go to great lengths to argue for and document its authenticity, as John and Morton Edgar point out in their book
Great Pyramid Passages:

It is significant to note, in this connection, that a piece of wrought-iron was found in the Great Pyramid by one of Col. Howard Vyse's assistants, Mr. J.R. Hill, during the operations carried out at Giza in 1837. Mr. Hill found it embedded in the cement in an inner joint, while removing some of the masonry preparatory to clearing the southern air-channel of the King's Chamber. This piece of iron is probably the oldest specimen in existence; and Col. Howard Vyse was fully recognizant of the importance of the find. He forwarded it to the British Museum with the following certificates:

'This is to certify that the piece of iron found by me near the (outside) mouth of the air passage, in the southern side of the Great Pyramid at Giza, on Friday, May 26th, was taken out by me from an inner joint, after having removed by blasting the outer two tiers of the stones of the present surface of the pyramid; and that no joint or opening of any sort was connected with the above-mentioned joint,
by which the iron could have been placed in it after the original building of the Pyramid. I also showed the exact spot to Mr. Perring, on Saturday, June 24th.—J. R. Hill'

'To the above certificate of Mr. Hill, I can add, that since I saw the spot at the commencement of blasting, there have been two tiers of stone removed, and that, if the piece of iron was found in the joint, pointed out to me by Mr. Hill, and which was covered by a larger stone partly remaining, it is impossible it could have been placed there since the building of the pyramid.—J. S. Perring, C. E.'

'We hereby certify, that we examined the place whence the iron in question was taken by Mr. Hill, and we are of the opinion, that the iron must have been left in the joint during the building of the Pyramid, and that it could not have been inserted afterwards.—Ed. S. Andrews,—James Mash,
C. E.
'
¹

Despite the above testimonials, because the chronology for the development of metals did not include wrought iron in the age of the pyramids, the specialists at the British Museum concluded that this wrought-iron artifact could not be genuine and must have been introduced in modern times. Nevertheless, after examining the piece in 1881, Petrie objectively noted:

That sheet iron was employed we know, from the fragment found by Howard Vyse in the masonry of the south air channel; and though some doubt has been thrown on the piece merely from its rarity, yet the vouchers for it are very precise; and it has a cast of nummulite on the rust of it, proving it to have been buried for ages beside a block of nummulitic limestone, and therefore to be certainly ancient. No reasonable doubt can therefore exist about its being a really genuine piece used by the pyramid masons; and probably such pieces were required to prevent crowbars biting into the stones, and to ease the action of the
rollers.
²

Because of the British Museum's proclamation, and despite Petrie's opinion, this metal plate received little attention until very recently when Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock doggedly researched its history. They
reported that "Despite this forceful opinion from one of the oddball giants [Petrie] of Egyptology in the late Victorian Age, the profession as a whole has been unable to cope with the idea of a piece of wrought iron being contemporary with the Great Pyramid. Such a notion goes completely against the grain of every preconception that Egyptologists internalize throughout their careers concerning the ways in which civilizations evolve and
develop."
³

Hancock and Bauval go on to say that in 1989, after rigorous testing of a fragment cut from the plate, two eminent metallurgists, Dr. M. P. Jones, senior tutor in the Mineral Resources Engineering Department at Imperial College, London, and Dr. Sayed El Gayer, who gained his Ph.D. in extraction metallurgy at the University of Aston in Birmingham, reported that "it is concluded, on the basis of the present investigation, that the iron plate is very ancient. Furthermore, the metallurgical evidence supports the archaeological evidence which suggests that the plate was incorporated within the Pyramid at the time that structure was being
built."
⁴

Jones and El Gayer determined that the plate was not of meteoric origin and that it must have been smelted at between 1,000 and 1,100 degrees centigrade. They also discovered the presence of gold on one surface of the plate during these tests.

Armed with this expert data—and 110 years after Petrie's objective analysis—Hancock and Bauval spoke with Dr. A. J. Spencer and Dr. Paul Craddock of the British Museum, who characterized Jones' and El Gayer's conclusions as being "highly dubious," though they would not comment further to support this statement.

Having worked with metallurgists and technologists, and having read the works of and seen the documentaries of Egyptologists, when I compare these two conflicting opinions I place more trust in the science and objectivity of the metallurgists. Egyptologists have a vested interest in continuing their teachings as they have taught them for the past century. To do otherwise would be to admit that they have been wrong. The iron plate is just a small, though significant, item in a large collection of anomalies that have been ignored or misinterpreted by many academics because they contradict their orthodox beliefs.

ENDNOTES

INTRODUCTION

1.
Peter Tompkins,
Secrets of the Great Pyramid,
382.

2.
William Fix,
Pyramid Odyssey,
219.

CHAPTER ONE

1.
Richard Hoagland at
www.enterprisemission.com

2.
Peter Tompkins,
Secrets of the Great Pyramid,
218.

3.
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15th ed., s.v. "Hegira."

4.
Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval.
The Message of the Sphinx,
101–103.

5.
William Fix,
Pyramid Odyssey,
65. The statement was made at the time Dr. Lehner was being funded by the Edgar Cayce foundation for his research in Egypt.

6.
See Erich von Daniken,
Chariot of the Gods.

7.
Hancock, Bauval, and West are major proponents of the theory that the Sphinx was constructed during the age of Leo, over 10,000 years ago. West and geologist Robert Schoch claim that the weathering of the Sphinx and of the surrounding limestone wall is the result of repeated heavy rainfall, which has not occurred in Egypt for over 10,000 years.

8.
Both Smyth quotations are from
The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed,
132.

9.
This is an estimate provided by Merle Booker, director of the Indiana Limestone Institute, to Richard Noone, author of
5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster.
Booker estimated that it would require that the entire Indiana limestone industry, comprised of thirty-three quarries, triple its current output, and the estimate did not allow for equipment breakdowns or labor problems.

10.
Fix,
Pyramid Odyssey,
66.

11.
Ibid.

12.
Kurt Mendelssohn,
The Riddle of the Pyramids,
75.

13.
I.E.S. Edwards,
Ancient Egypt: Discovering Its Splendors,
84.

14.
These two quotations are from
Ancient Egypt,
88.

15.
From an interview with the
Sunday Telegraph
(London), January 1, 1995.

16.
See Petrie's
Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh.

17.
Peter Lemesurier,
The Great Pyramid Decoded,
174–175.

18.
Mark Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids,
111.

19.
Lehner's
The Complete Pyramid is
a marvelously executed graphic exploration of the pyramids of Egypt. To completely analyze each of the remarkably complex and mechanical designs found within each of these pyramids would require the same attention to each one as was given to the Great Pyramid for the past century and more.

20.
Tompkins, 251. Architect James Hagan also agrees with these observations.

CHAPTER TWO

1.
Peter Tompkins,
Secrets of the Great Pyramid,
21.

2.
The information regarding Greaves, Davison, Caviglia, and Davidson is recounted in Tompkins.

3.
William Flinders Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh,
19.

4.
Tompkins, 249.

5.
Ibid.

6.
I.E.S. Edwards,
The Pyramids of Egypt,
290-291.

7.
Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples,
86.

8.
Ibid, 19.

9.
Ibid, 26.

10.
Edwards,
The Pyramids of Egypt,
106.

11.
Piazzi Smyth,
Our Inheritence in the Great Pyramid,
174–175.

12.
Ibid, 175–176.

13.
Ibid, 174.

14.
Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples,
27.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Ibid, 28.

CHAPTER THREE

1.
In manufacturing, "tolerance" is a unit of measure within which a deviation from a perfect form can be tolerated.

2.
William F. Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh,
13. Petrie's reference to the work of opticians has been taken out of context by modern writers. The accuracy required of some optical components is measurable to less than a wavelength of light.

3.
Mark Lehner,
The Complete Pyramids,
208-209.

4.
Atlantis Rising Video,
Technologies of the Gods,
1998. Hagan quotes are from this source and personal conversations.

5.
Richard Noone,
5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster,
105.

6.
Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples,
77.

7.
Ibid, 13.

8.
Max Toth,
Pyramid Prophecies,
81.

9.
I.E.S. Edwards,
Ancient Egypt,
89.

10.
Lehner, 209.

11.
Netherlands Television,
Genesis in Stone,
1995.

CHAPTER FOUR

1.
I.E.S. Edwards,
Ancient Egypt,
91.

2.
William Flinders Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh,
29.

3.
Ibid, 35.

4.
Ibid, 29.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Ibid, 77.

7.
Ibid,78.

8.
Ibid, 75, 76, 78.

9.
A. Lucas,
Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries,
88
.

10.
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15th ed., S.v. "Ultrasonics and Infrasonics."

CHAPTER FIVE

1.
William Flinders Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh,
35, 36.

2.
I.E.S. Edwards,
The Pyramids of Egypt,
134.

3.
Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples,
xii.

4.
Joseph Davidovits and Margie Morris,
The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved,
85–86.

CHAPTER SIX

1.
Information on Coral Castle can be obtained from Coral Castle, 28655 S. Dixie Highway, Homestead, FL 33030 USA. Tel: 305-248-6344. For a nominal charge, the proprietors will mail a package that includes Leedskalnin's papers on electricity and magnetism and a small self-published book entitled
A Book In Every Home,
in which Leedskalnin instructs the reader on how to raise a young lady. Is this a metaphor? I don't know; it is a strange little book and I have not quite figured it out yet.

CHAPTER EIGHT

1.
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15th ed., s.v. "Sound, Sources of:"

2.
From the archive of "Dr. Magneto's Questions and Answers" at
http://image.gsfc.na­sa.gov/~odenwald/a­sklq768.html
. Other references on Earth's resonance can be found on the Internet by doing a search for "schumann resonance."

3.
Quoted in Peter Tompkins,
Secrets of the Great Pyramid,
72. Further Taylor quotes from the same source.

4.
Ibid, 74.

5.
Piazzi Smyth,
The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed,
285.

6.
Ibid, 287.

7.
William Flinders Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh,
13.

8.
William Fix,
Pyramid Odyssey,
232.

9.
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15th ed., s.v. "Vibration."

10.
Said may have meant "four
resonant
frequencies."

11.
Quoted from Said's website at
http://www.laurale­e.com/said.htm
(October 1997).

12.
Paul Horn,
Inside the Great Pyramid,
Mushroom Records, 1977.

13.
Tompkins, 279.

14.
Bill Kerrel and Kathy Goggin,
The Guide to Pyramid Energy,
14.

15.
Bill Schul and Ed Pettit,
The Secret Power of Pyramids,
105.

16.
Dale Pond and Walter Baumgartner,
Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine,
5–6.

17.
Thomas Bearden,
Establishing a Standing Scalar EM Wave in the Earth,
6–47.

18.
Ibid, 6–45.

CHAPTER NINE

1.
Dee Jay Nelson and David H. Coville,
Life Force in the Great Pyramids,
73.

2.
William Flinders Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh,
28.

3.
Ibid, 30.

4.
Piazzi Smyth,
The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed,
7.

5.
Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples,
31.

6.
Paul Horn,
Inside the Great Pyramid,
Mushroom Records, 1977.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples,
30.

9.
Smyth, 447–448, 451, 452.

10.
Ibid, 452.

11.
Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples,
8.

12.
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15th ed., s.v. "Vibrations: Energy and Power in Vibrations."

13.
Graham Hancock,
Fingerprints of the Gods,
333.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples,
21.

CHAPTER TEN

1.
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15th ed., s.v. "Radio Sources, Astronomical."

2.
Ibid, s.v. "Lasers and Masers."

3.
Ibid, s.v. "Masers."

4.
Piazzi Smyth,
The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed,
416.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Ibid, 156.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

1.
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15th ed., s.v. "Catalysis."

2.
Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval,
Message of the Sphinx,
115–116.

3.
Richard Noone,
5/5/2000: Ice: The Ultimate Disaster,
99.

4.
Report prepared for me by chemical engineer Joseph Drejewski.

5.
Hancock and Bauval,
Message of the Sphinx,
51.

CHAPTER TWELVE

1.
William Flinders Petrie,
Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh,
87.

2.
Peter Tompkins,
Secrets of the Great Pyramid,
249.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

1.
Peter Tompkins,
Secrets of the Great Pyramid,
107.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1.
Nikola Tesla,
The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla,
219–240.

2.
Brad Steiger,
Worlds Before Our Own,
74–75.

3.
Ibid, 7–76.

4.
Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert,
The Orion Mystery,
73–74.

5.
Ibid, 90–91.

6.
Edgar Evans Cayce,
Edgar Cayce on Atlantis,
88–90.

7.
The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language,
1973, s.v., "igneous."

8.
Cayce,
Edgar Cayce on Atlantis,
85.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

1.
Brad Steiger,
Worlds Before Our Own,
16.

2.
David Wilson,
The New Archaeology,
97.

3.
Willard Frank Libby Ph.D. received the 1960 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work on radioactive carbon dating.

4.
Wilson, 112.

5.
J.A.B. van Buitenen,
The Mah
bh
rata,
xxv-xxxvii.

6.
Ibid, 75–76.

7.
Ibid,
88.

8.
Ibid, 89.

9.
Ibid, 419.

10.
Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan,
The Mah
bh
rata,
117–118.