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Mohamed Ibrahim: Unknown Architects of Egypt's Colossal Sculpture

Earth Ancients

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The Challenge of Orthodox Archaeology

Egyptologist Dr. Karakuni flat out says Egyptology is dead. When you go to the Cairo Museum, which we will visit, when you go to any Egyptian museum and read what they say about sculptures, it's from the 1920s, 1930s. If you cannot break out of this mindset that things are cards with copper chisels and mallets, then you are relegated to the dark ages. Now, we see this with these scans of the pyramid done by the Italian team that just came up. They used a new technology to scan the Chiap's pyramid with acoustic waves. And what did they find? They found new rooms, new shafts, new canals,

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