Remnants of the Gods by Erich von Däniken

Author:Erich von Däniken
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Divulgación, Otros
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 2013-11-25T06:00:00+00:00

False doctrines

Abydos lies 561 kilometers south of Cairo, directly on the Nile. The Egyptians of the Old Kingdom (2600–2200 BC) were already doing archaeology there: “They turned over the ground.”[1] What they were looking for at that time is just as unknown as the origins of Abydos. Today it is the temples of Sethos I (1294–1279 BC) and his son Ramses II (1279–1213 BC) that dominate the scene. (Images 86–87) But the temple complex of Sethos I partially rests on foundations from those mythical times of which we know nothing. Directly behind the temple there is the so-called Osireion, a complex constructed from giant granite blocks which, looked at from a technological perspective, does not fit in with the Sethos temple, whichever way you look at it.

As long ago as 1726, when no official department of archaeology yet existed, the Frenchman Granger (real name Tourtechot) started digging in Abydos. At that time, the whole complex lay under the desert sands and only a few upright columns signaled a structure under the surface. The next Frenchman to burrow in Abydos, Emile Amélineau, discovered tombs from the First and Second Dynasty, about 5,000 years in the past when calculated from today. In 1859, when Abydos had been buried by the desert again, Auguste Mariette, the subsequent founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, had Abydos shoveled free again. Eventually the Britons Sir Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray undertook research in Abydos in 1903, and in 1912, the famous Swiss Egyptologist Professor Edouard Naville (1844–1926) discovered a granite stone gateway in the ground with various subterranean chambers. Naville investigated the up to 100-tonne granite blocks of the Osireion and finally concluded with resignation that this complex had to be considered as the “oldest structure in the whole of Egypt.”[2] (Images 88–91)

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