The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of MankindNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two Egypt experts posit a revolutionary theory: The Sphinx and other great Egyptian monuments are older than common history books tell us and are arranged in such a way as to send us a message from the silent past. Graham Hancock is featured in Ancient Apocalypse, a Netflix original docuseries Guardian of the ancient mysteries, the keeper of secrets . . . For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Egypt has gazed toward the east, its eyes focused on eternity, reading a message in the stars that mankind has long forgotten. And today as our civilization stands poised at the end of a great cycle, it is a message that beckons insistently to be understood. All the clues are in place. Geology and archeo-astronomy have already indicated that the lion-bodied Sphinx may be vastly older than Egyptologists currently believe, dating not from 2500 B.C., but from 10,500 B.C.—the beginning of the astrological Age of Leo. And we now know that the three pyramids of Giza, standing on high ground half a mile to the west of the Sphinx, are in fact a precise map of the three stars of Orion’s belt, formed in fifteen million tons of solid stone. Are these monuments trying to tell us something? And, if so, what? In The Message of the Sphinx, Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work that unravels the millennial code embodied in these structures. Using sophisticated computer simulations of ancient skies, they unravel the riddle of the Sphinx, and they present a startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures. Their discoveries lead the authors to this question: Does mankind have a rendezvous with destiny—a rendezvous not in the future, but in the distant past, at a precise place and time? The secrets can be kept no longer. The Message of the Sphinx brings them to light. |
Contents
The Riddle of the Sphinx | 7 |
Mystery Piled upon Mystery | 23 |
Stars and Time | 58 |
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The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind Graham Hancock,Robert Bauval No preview available - 1997 |
The message of the Sphinx: a quest for the hidden legacy of mankind Graham Hancock,Robert Bauval No preview available - 1997 |
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alignment Ancient Egypt ancient Egyptian astronomical Atum bedrock Cairo causeway Chamber shafts Chapter circa civilization constellation of Leo corridor cosmic dawn Duat due east E. A. Wallis Budge ecliptic Ecliptic Path Edfu Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce Foundation Egyptologists epoch exploration feet Followers of Horus Giza necropolis Giza plateau gods Hall of Records heliacal Heliopolis hieroglyphs Hor-em-Akhet Horakhti horizon Horus Horus-King Ibid Isis Khafre Khufu king King's Chamber Kingdom of Osiris land London Mark Lehner meridian Milky monuments Nile op.cit Orion Mystery Orion's belt Osiris passageways paws Pharaoh precession precise Pyramid Age Pyramid Texts Pyramids of Giza Queen's Chamber reader will recall rising Rostau Rudolf Gantenbrink Selim Hassan Sirius Sokar solar southern shaft Sphinx Temple spring equinox stars of Orion's stela summer solstice symbolic Taurus three great Pyramids three stars tunnel Upuaut Valley Temple vernal point Zahi Hawass zodiacal