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Michael Baigent |
Michael
Baigent is the author of a number of important books that challenge
the way we perceive the past, including (with Richard Leigh and
Henry Lincoln) THE HOLY BLOOD AND THE HOLY GRAIL, (with Richard
Leigh) THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS DECEPTION, THE ELIXIR AND THE STONE
and the recently published ANCIENT TRACES. He spoke about Iron Age burials from Dead Sea caves being ignored by Israeli archaeologists, and the excavations of Catholic archaeologist Roland de Vaux at Qumrân being a complete scam to mask the importance of the Dead Sea community. |
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seems that Hebrew archaeologists do not want to find anything that might
invalidate the Bible and the Christians don't want to discover anything
that might imply that Christianity derived from messianic movements
such as the Zealots, the Essenes and the Dead Sea community.
In addition to all this, Michael spoke of a shaped and polished piece
of plank discovered in the Jordan Valley in 1989 and subsequently found
to be 500,000 years old. Since this was a time period in which humanity
is supposed to have been barely better than ape-men, the whole subject
was quietly swept aside by Israeli archaeologists. Even the negatives
of the only pictures showing this extraordinary item went missing.
Turning to Egypt, Michael highlighted the dilemmas for Egyptologists
surrounding the re-dating of the Great Sphinx, most principally that
it would affect the contextual relationship of the entire necropolis.
Michael pointed out that evidence of predynastic activity on the Giza
plateau has been ignored by mainstream Egyptologists. This comes in
the form of pots found at the base of the Great Pyramid which belong
to the so-called Maadi culture, which thrived on the east bank of the
Nile, opposite Giza, around 3600 BC. They were a relatively advanced
peoples who traded with Jericho, where an organised society which constructed
stone structures existed as early as 7500 BC. In other words, it is
not outside the realms of possibility that civilised society could have
been introduced to Egypt via Maadi from Palestine. Who's to say that
the Maadi were incapable of carving monuments such as the Great Sphinx?
I found Michael's lecture fascinating and original and can recommend
his book ANCIENT TRACES for those wishing to learn more about these
crucial aspects of forbidden archaeology.
Read Andrew's reports on the next lecture or choose from below:
Yuri Stoyanov
Christopher Knight and
Robert Lomas
Robert Bauval
John Lash
David Rohl
Michael Baigent
Colin Wilson
Andrew Collins
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