Robert Bauval


Next to take the stage was Robert Bauval, co-author of books such as THE ORION MYSTERY, KEEPER OF GENESIS and THE MARS MYSTERY. He delivered a special millennium lecture on Egypt's greater antiquity and the quest for the Hall of Records. It included new evidence from ancient texts of the pharaonic Egyptians' obsession with magic, creation and the afterlife, with particular reference to the star Sirius.

Beyond the more obvious highlights of this extraordinary search, which is the subject of Robert's new book SECRET CHAMBER - THE QUEST FOR THE HALL OF RECORDS, he detailed a darker, more shady agenda that seems to have begun with the spread of Egyptian Freemasonry at the time of the French Revolution, both in France and in the United States.


He proposed that this Masonic legacy will culminate at millennial midnight with the lowering of a gold capstone by helicopter on to the apex of the Great Pyramid, a spectacle eagerly awaited by secret societies and Freemasons worldwide.



Although I had heard much of what Robert had to say about the pharaonic Egyptians' obsession with magic and the afterlife, I found myself absorbed by the symbolism attached to the star Sirius present among French Freemasons, who saw both Isis and Napoleon Bonaparte as its divine patrons. Napoleon even commissioned his savants to search for truth that Paris was named after this Egyptian goddess, which, of course, they found.



Robert remains the ambassador and shining light of the alternative Egypt field, despite the criticisms that have been levelled against him in recent books and documentaries. There is no doubt that he had the audience eating out of his hands with his compassionate deliveries, like the one seen at the Questing Conference (which, incidentally, is his fourth since 1995). Moreover, there are signs that he has taken on board the criticisms and updated his views concerning the greater antiquity of Giza's monuments. He emphasised that it is only the astronomical alignments, orientation and textual accounts which allude to a mythical time-frame coinciding with the astrological age of Leo, c. 11,000 to 8800 BC, not necessarily the antiquity of the sites.

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

Questing Conference 1999