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Subject: Fw: IUFO: The "Osiris Shaft"
I have something from Tex Marrs which arrived in the mail today on Zahi
Hawass. They are expecting Lucifer to arrive in the pyramid at the stroke of
midnight on Dec 31 1999. I will attempt to scan it. Sorry if I've sent this.
Nicky
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Date: Tuesday, 27 July 1999 11:11
Subject: IUFO: The "Osiris Shaft"
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>The "Osiris Shaft"
>
>Dr Zahi Hawass has updated his website with a series of photographs that
>include the "Osiris Shaft" (previously termed the "water shaft") beneath
>Khafre's Causeway. As some of you may know, this shaft has a long history
of
>archaeological exploration dating from the time of Selim Hassan's
excavation
>in the 1930's. Hassan had excavated down to the second level and made
certain
>observations of the third. As this lowest chamber was flooded and pumping
did
>not reduce the water level he was unable to fully excavate the shaft.
During
>the mid-1990's a sarcophagus lid was discovered partially buried in
detritus
>by Boris Said and other team members during a mission to the Giza Plateau
led
>by Dr Joseph Schor. (Credit to those persons is often lacking in recent
>public notifications and lectures and is hereby given.)
>
>Following this find Dr Zahi Hawass had the third level excavated by an
>Egyptian team. His discoveries led him to believe the lowest level is a
>"symbolic tomb for the god Osiris". This notion is based upon Hawass'
>observation of a hieroglyphic word "pr", meaning, "house", which he noted
>inscribed in the floor of the tomb. Linking this with the old name for the
>Giza Plateau ("pr wsir nb rstaw", or "the house of Osiris, Lord of
Rastaw."),
>Hawass comes to the conclusion that the third level is a tomb for Osiris,
be
>it a symbolic one.
>
>But there are no hieroglyphs or inscriptions of any kind in all three
levels.
>The hieroglyphic symbol to which Hawass refers is basically a square shape
>with an open end in the middle of the bottom portion. A description that
>vaguely fits the shape of the tombs floor plan. For within the centre of
this
>tomb, is a sarcophagus set in a rectangular depression in the ground,
covered
>by a shallow level of natural water. Surrounding the coffer is a raised
level
>of rock/soil that forms a rectangle around the depression, some 2-3 feet
>wide. On the outside of this is an outer channel filled with water, itself
>surrounded by the chamber walls.
>
>With the lack of any hieroglyphic inscriptions in the "Osiris Shaft", Dr
>Hawass appears to be suggesting that the shape of the tombs floor
represents
>the hieroglyph "pr". If this is the case, and without any corroborating
>evidence, his identification of the tomb with Osiris seems tenuous to say
the
>least. Furthermore, Hawass' dating of the second level to the Saite period
>(around "500BC".) and the third level to the New Kingdom ("1550BC") is
>particularly confusing. This would make the deepest level older than those
>above it. On the other hand Selim Hassan, the shafts original excavator,
>believed it to be a typical shaft burial dating to the Saite dynasty.
>
>Why then would Zahi Hawass claim that the tomb dates to the New Kingdom?
>
>Perhaps this is simply to strengthen his theory of the shafts association
>with Osiris. If I recall correctly, the term for Giza "pr wsir nb rstaw"
was
>used during the New Kingdom period and not during the Saite. Therefore
>without the earlier date his basic argument falls apart. But the question
>still remains, why associate the third level with Osiris in the first place
>and why the lack of recognition towards the shafts original excavator,
Selim
>Hassan, and his findings?
>
>Chris Ogilvie-Herald.
>
>References:
>
>Dr Zahi Hawass' website http://guardians.net/hawass/
>
>See also Nigel Skinner-Simpsons excellent pages on the water shaft.
>http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/nigelss/pages/shafted.htm
>
>Other Resources
>
>Some FOX TV graphics on this site.
>http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbitback25.html
>
>A large series of images here but ignore the text.
>http://www.akasha.de/~aton/HO-OSIRIS.html
>
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