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  Also of note is that the interior of the box had been almost finished, but not completely, at or before the time of the broken lid incident. What is curious is that the interior corners are not crisp, but rounded slightly, indicating that it was not a saw that cut out the interior.

  View of the box showing the interior

  And yet, whatever form of technology was used, it left an even pebbly surface such you get with using a sandblaster.

  The boxes mentioned so far are listed as sarcophagi by Egyptologists, but since the dynastic people were incapable of shaping them in the first place, their actual original function remains unknown.

  Slightly rounded corners inside the box

  The Egyptians could have used them for funerary function, but they did not create them. These are the first indications that many artifacts of ancient Egypt were in fact found by the dynasties when they entered these lands around 5000 years ago, as we shall see.

  Another large box with crude etching on the outside, inferior to the box itself

  Friend Hans inspecting flat saw marks on another lid

  Possibly the strangest and most inexplicable artifact on display is what is commonly known as the ‘schist disk.’ It is a tri-lobed circular object made of stone, and the label in the museum states that it could have been a “vase for lotuses.” However, anyone with any sense of function or engineering would quickly dismiss such an idea. It would appear far more likely to be part of a device that spun.

  The schist disk with the author's hand to indicate size

  In January 1936, this strange disk was unearthed at the plateau edge of North Saqqara, approximately 1.7 kilometers north of Djoser’s Step Pyramid in Egypt. The discovery of the mysterious prehistoric artifact, that many considered a device of some kind, was made in the so-called Mastaba of Sabu (Tomb 3111, c. 3100-3000 BC) by a famous British Egyptologist Walter Bryan Emery (1902-1971). Sabu was the son of Pharaoh Aneddzhiba (5th ruler of the 1st dynasty of ancient Egypt) and a high official or administrator of a town or province possibly called ‘Star of the family of Horus.’ (38) The burial chamber had no stairway and its superstructure was completely filled with sand and stone vessels, flint knives, arrows, a few copper tools, and the most interesting schist bowl in fragments. The stone vessels numbered more than 10,000, some say in fact 40,000, and many appear to have turned on a lathe. These we will get to later.

  The unearthed device named the schist disk is approximately 61 cm in diameter (24 inches), 1 cm thick (0.4 inches), and 10.6 cm (4.2 inches) in the center. It was manufactured by unknown means from supposedly a very fragile and delicate material requiring very tedious carving the production that would confound many craftsmen even today.

  Photo of the disk showing the curvature of the blades

  Our resident geologist Suzan Moore believes that it is not schist at all, but possibly very fine slate, or another type of metamorphosed sand or clay. Scientists do not think the object is a wheel, because the wheel appeared in Egypt about 1500 BC, during the 18th Dynasty. Egyptologist Cyril Aldred reached the conclusion that, independent of what the object was used for or what it represented, its design was without a doubt a copy of a previous, much older metallic object. Why did the ancient Egyptians bother to design an object with such a complex structure more than 5,000 years ago?

  Photo of the smooth curvature of the bottom

  Because the disk was found broken into several pieces, with some of the parts missing, it was reconstructed, likely by staff of the museum. Their repair job was quite poor, and thus accounts for why many observers think it was not originally symmetrical. The author does not agree.

  Detailed view of the blades and central hub

  So, if we assume that this was not created as a lotus vase or incense burner and was in fact meant to rotate around the central hub, which has a wooden plug in it for some reason, what would it do? Some replicas have been made out of plastic or fiberglass, and attached to power drills or motors to make them spin. Since the blades on the disk are not angled in any way, it neither pushes nor pulls either air or water. No reasonable explanation so far has been given for what it did when rotating, though some speculate it created some sort of antigravity field that could have been used to move heavy objects.

  Another curious artifact that looks somewhat like the above disk is believed to have been from the third dynasty and again appears to have been made from a fine and tightly compacted stone.

  Curious small plate found in the Cairo Museum

  This interesting little artifact, which is in a room adjacent to the above disk, appears to have been partially made on a lathe, as evidence by the circle in the center, but also shaped either by hand or some unknown technology. As you can see, it has five folds in the rim. It was clearly found broken as was the disk, but whether it was found in the same location or not is unknown by the author.

  Also on display at the museum are several small, medium, and large plates, bowls, and other vessels which were found in the large cache at the massive ancient burial site called Saqqara, all seemingly piled together, some broken and others intact.

  Label on display showing some of the stone types involved

  There are some indications that they are from the very early dynastic period, or from an even earlier time, called the ‘archaic period.’ They appear to have in large part been made on some type of lathe. It is amazing that they are on display at all, because if machined, they do not fit in with the standard history of Egypt in any way, shape or form.

  A sample of some of the stone vessels on display

  Often ‘out of place’ artifacts such as these are never put on public display, because they do not fit the official paradigm. Many could only have been made using a lathe of high precision, not a simple potter’s wheel, and could not have been made at the time stated. As many of these vessels are made of very hard stone, such as granite, diorite, and basalt, they could only be shaped with a tool made of, or incorporating, a harder material. As granite and diorite contain quartz, which has a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale (10 being the hardest natural material known – diamond), only tools with corundum or diamond in their composition could be used to cut and shape them.

  Assortment of jars and bowls on display

  The previous photo shows jars and bowls made of a granite related stone, possibly diorite. The early dynastic Egyptians had at best quite crude bronze tools, and thus there is no way that they could have made these or many of the other vessels found in the Saqqara cache. Iron metal is singularly scarce in collections of Egyptian antiquities. Bronze remained the primary material there until the conquest by Assyria in 673-663 BC. The explanation of this would seem to lie in the fact that the relics are in most cases the paraphernalia of tombs, with funeral vessels and vases. Iron being considered an impure metal by the ancient Egyptians, it was never used in the manufacture of these or for any religious purposes. It was attributed to Seth, the spirit of evil who according to Egyptian tradition governed the central deserts of Africa. (39)

  There are some claims that meteoric iron was used in ancient Egypt, perhaps as far back as 5000 years, but only for ornamental beads.

  Finely shaped vase that clearly was made on a lathe

  As we see in the photo above and next page, there is a very even crease near the lip of the vase, so finely done that likely it was done with a fine diamond-tipped tool.

  The diamond core drill was invented and put to practical use in 1863 by Rodolphe Leschot, a French engineer. He used it for drilling blast holes for tunneling Mount Cenis on the France-Italy border. Leschot patented the device in the United States in 1863 and it was reissued in 1869. Diamond tools for lathes were not invented until after this.

  Finely shaped bowl with a very thin lip

  The next photo not only shows more of the amazing vessels, but one in the center that has two drill holes in it. Clearly, we are looking at technology that existed before the time of the dynastic Egyptians, and only resurfaced in the late 19th cen
tury at the earliest. It is possible that these vessels were found by the early dynastic Egyptians and were then stored away at Saqqara until found by Emory. Since the majority of them were found broken, and again are very hard stone in many cases, it is possible that they were destroyed by some catastrophe in the very distant past.

  More stone vessels showing, in one, drill holes

  Another curiosity as pointed out by author Stephen Mehler, and first shown to him by his teacher Abd’El Hakim Awyan, are the presence of huge sarcophagi, made of wood, in the Cairo Museum. Though some academics insist that they were made for symbolic reasons, is it not possible that they once contained actual giant people?

  Huge sarcophagi in the Cairo Museum

  There are references in the oral tradition of very tall humans once living in Egypt, and many of you readers will have heard of such stories in North America, Europe, etc. It is too easy to dismiss such stories as being purely myth, especially when one sees the giant coffins in the Cairo Museum, as well as the many huge stone boxes found in other locations in Egypt.

  Obvious drill holes in a large granite box

  Finally, the photo above shows you several drill holes in the lip of a very large granite box. As has been stated earlier, the tool must be harder than the material being cut, shaped, or drilled.

  We now move on to the most famous area of ancient Egypt, the Giza Plateau. Here we will find obvious examples of lost ancient high technology and feats that the dynastic Egyptians simply could not have achieved.

  According to the standard story, the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (or Dynasty I) covers the first series of Egyptian kings to rule over a unified Egypt. It immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, possibly by Narmer, and marks the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, a time at which power was centered at Thinis.

  The date of this period is subject to scholarly debate about the Egyptian chronology. It falls within the early Bronze Age and is variously estimated to have begun anywhere between the 34th and the 30th centuries BC. In a 2013 study based on radiocarbon dates, the beginning of the First Dynasty, the accession of Hor-Aha, was placed close to 3100 BC (3218–3035, with 95% confidence). (40) However, some other researches have consulted ancient ‘kings list(s)’ which state, with names, that there were thousands of years of rulers before this.

  Our Khemit School group on the Giza Plateau in April 2016

  Of course, the most famous and grandest constructions on the Giza Plateau are the three pyramids. The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is believed to be the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. Based on a mark in an interior chamber naming the work gang and a reference to fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu, Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb over a 10-20 year period concluding around 2560 BC.

  Clear evidence that the casing stones locked into the pyramid - they are not adhered to the surface

  As the above official information indicates, though does not directly acknowledge, the early dynastic Egyptians could not have built the great pyramids at Giza. First, they admit that at that time, the Egyptians were an early Bronze Age culture, which tells us that they did not have the tools sufficient to cut all of the stone involved. The date of construction is based on simple painted glyphs hardly sufficient as evidence. Many great books are written about the Giza complex, so I will simply deal with the signs of lost ancient technology we see, and possible evidence of ancient cataclysm.

  These are some of the major statistics about the Great pyramid, from the webpage: http://www.ancient-code.com/25-facts-about-the-great-pyramid-of-giza/.

  The pyramid is estimated to have around 2,300,000 stone blocks that weigh from 2 to 30 tons each and there are even some blocks that weigh over 50 tons. Some say the figure is 2,500,000 or more. Some claim that all of the stones were made from a type of geopolymer concrete, yet that in itself would be a more complex procedure than cutting out the blocks from the Giza Plateau. As each block is a different shape and size, you would need about 2.5 million different forms to make them. Nonsense.

  The so-called Pyramid of Menkaure, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Great Pyramid of Khufu are precisely aligned with the Constellation of Orion. Theory by Robert Bauval.

  The base of the pyramid covers 55,000 m2 (592,000 ft2) with each side greater than 20,000 m2 (218,000 ft2) in area.

  The interior temperature is supposedly constant and equals the average temperature of the Earth, 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit). The author has never experienced this. In fact, it seems much hotter the farther up you go.

  The outer mantle was composed of 144,000 casing stones, all of them highly polished and flat to an accuracy of 1/100th of an inch, about 100 inches thick and weighing approximately 15 tons each. The casing stone material is Tura limestone from a still active quarry in Cairo, not Giza.

  The cornerstone foundations of the pyramid have ball and socket construction capable of dealing with heat expansion and earthquakes. This the author has not directly seen.

  The mortar used between many of the core blocks is of an unknown origin. It has been analyzed, and its chemical composition is known, but it cannot be reproduced. It is stronger than the stone and still holding up today.

  It was originally covered with casing stones made of highly polished limestone. These casing stones reflected the sun’s light and made the pyramid shine like a jewel. They are no longer present, having been requisitioned to build mosques after an earthquake in the 14th century loosened many of them. It has been calculated that the original pyramid with its casing stones would act like gigantic mirrors and reflect light so powerful that it would be visible from the moon as a shining star on Earth. Appropriately, the ancient Egyptians called the Great Pyramid ‘Ikhet,’ meaning the ‘Glorious Light.’ How the casing stones may have fallen off will be discussed later.

  Aligned True North: The Great Pyramid is the most accurately aligned structure in existence and faces true north with only 3/60th of a degree of error. The position of the North Pole moves over time and the pyramid was exactly aligned at one time.

  Center of Land Mass: The Great Pyramid is located at the center of the landmass of the Earth. The east/west parallel that crosses the most land and the north/south meridian that crosses the most land intersect in only two places on the Earth: one in the ocean, and the other at the Great Pyramid.

  The four faces of the pyramid are slightly concave, or indented, with an extraordinary degree of precision. This is the only pyramid to have been built this way. This effect is not visible from the ground or from a distance, but is from the air, and then only under the proper lighting conditions – at dawn and sunset on the spring and autumn equinoxes, and when the sun casts shadows on the pyramid.

  Pyramid from above showing concave, or indented, sides

  The granite box in the ‘King’s Chamber’ is too big to fit through the passages and so it must have been put in place during construction.

  The box was made out of a block of solid granite. This would have required, according to most academics, bronze saws 8-9 feet long set with teeth of sapphires. Hollowing out of the interior would require tubular drills of the same material applied with a tremendous vertical force. As the early dynastic Egyptians were in a primitive stage of bronze development, they could hardly have had the ability to embed sapphires or diamonds into said material. As we have already seen, the first diamond tipped tools were not invented until well into the 19th century AD.

  Microscopic analysis of the coffer reveals that it was made with a fixed-point drill that used hard jewel bits and a drilling force of two tons. Again, not something that the dynastic people of the period could have done.

  The Great Pyramid supposedly had a swivel door entrance at one time. Swivel doors were found in only two other p
yramids: Khufu’s father and grandfather, Sneferu and Huni, respectively. The author never saw evidence of this, but an intriguing thought.

  It is reported that when the pyramid was first broken into the swivel door, weighing some 20 tons, was so well balanced that it could be opened by pushing out from the inside with only minimal force, but when closed, was so perfect a fit that it could scarcely be detected and there was not enough crack or crevice around the edges to gain a grasp from the outside.

  With the mantle in place, the Great Pyramid could be seen from the mountains in Israel and probably the moon as well.

  The weight of the pyramid is estimated at 5,955,000 tons. Multiplied by 10^8 gives a reasonable estimate of the Earth’s mass.

  The Descending Passage pointed to the pole star Alpha Draconis, circa 2170-2144 BC. This was the North Star at that point in time. No other star has aligned with the passage since then. Could be a coincidence.

  The southern shaft in the King’s Chamber pointed to the star Al Nitak (Zeta Orionis) in the constellation Orion, circa 2450 BC. The Orion constellation was associated with the Egyptian God Osiris. No other star aligned with this shaft during that time in history. Again, could be coincidence.

  Sun’s Radius: Twice the perimeter of the bottom of the granite box times 10^8 is the sun’s mean radius (270.45378502 Pyramid Inches* 10^8 = 427,316 miles).