Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (7 page)
The article stated that a thirty-year employee of the Smithsonian, identified as G. E. Kinkaid, had discovered the cave a few months earlier while boating on the Colorado River. The cavern was nearly inaccessible: the entrance was 1,486 feet below a sheer canyon wall.
Once inside, Kinkaid found mummies and relics that he shipped to Washington, D.C. Quoting from a report by Kinkaid, the
Gazette
wrote, “On all the urns, or walls over doorways, and tablets of stone which were found by the image are the mysterious hieroglyphics, the key to which the Smithsonian Institute [
sic
] hopes yet to discover. The engraving on the tablets probably has something to do with the religion of the people. Similar hieroglyphics have been found in southern Arizona. Among the pictorial writings, only two animals are found. One is of prehistoric type.” Kinkaid’s report also noted that in one large room were mummies, all male and all wrapped in a “bark fabric.”
Other rooms contained cooking vessels and storage places, and one room that smelled “snaky” seemed to be filled with gas or chemicals. It was estimated that as many as fifty thousand people could have lived in the caverns comfortably. According Kinkaid’s report, “The whole underground installation gives one of shaky nerves the creeps.”
The
Gazette
article also related that another Smithsonian archaeologist, S. A. Jordan, was making additional searches of the cave and had discovered evidence strongly indicating that the cavern had once been inhabited by a race “of oriental origin, possibly from Egypt, tracing back to Ramses.” The scientists had discovered several hundred rooms, linked by passageways running from the main passage. Some of these rooms included “articles which have never been known as native to this country, and doubtless they had their origin in the orient. War weapons, copper instruments, sharp-edged and hard as steel, indicate the high state of civilization reached by these strange people.”
The article’s conclusion was shocking. It argued that if the archaeologists’ theories were “borne out by the translation of the tablets engraved with hieroglyphics, the mystery of the prehistoric peoples of North America, their ancient arts, who they were and whence they came, [would] be solved. Egypt and the Nile, and Arizona and the Colorado [would] be linked by a historical chain running back to ages which staggers the wildest fancy of the fictionist.” Unfortunately, the century-old
Phoenix Gazette
article seems to be the only real evidence that this discovery ever took place. Some have called the story a planted hoax, and officials at the Smithsonian continue to deny involvement in any such expedition or that Egyptian artifacts have ever been recovered in the canyon.
But the mystery lingers. One young man, who did not want his name involved in this matter, related in the late 1990s that he was backpacking in the north end of the Grand Canyon when he came across concrete platforms. Knowing of the Egyptian artifacts story, he surmised that the platforms may have been the base for cranes to lower heavy artifacts from the cave on the sheer rock face. David Hatcher Childress, who founded the World Explorers Club, looked into the matter. After obtaining a map of the Grand Canyon, Childress and club members reported:
Poring over the map, we were amazed to see that much of the area on the north side of the canyon has Egyptian names. The area around Ninety-four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek had areas (rock formations, apparently) with names like Tower of Set, Tower of Ra, Horus Temple, Osiris Temple, and Isis Temple. In the Haunted Canyon area were such names as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Manu Temple and Shiva Temple. Was there any relationship between these places and the alleged Egyptian discoveries in the Grand Canyon?
We called a state archaeologist at the Grand Canyon, and were told that the early explorers had just liked Egyptian and Hindu names, but that it was true that this area was off limits to hikers or other visitors, because of dangerous caves. Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names in the Grand Canyon is a forbidden zone—no one is allowed into this large area. We could only conclude that this was the area where the vaults were located. Yet today, this area is curiously off-limits to all hikers and even, in large part, park personnel.
The Vatican has been long accused of keeping artifacts and ancient books in their vast cellars, without allowing the outside world access to them. These secret treasures, often of a controversial historical or religious nature, are allegedly suppressed by the Catholic Church because they might damage the church’s credibility, or perhaps cast their official texts in doubt. Sadly, there is overwhelming evidence that something very similar is happening with the Smithsonian Institution.
In addition to the problems of inconsistency that plague Darwin’s theory of evolution, efforts to solve the “missing link” problem have been hampered by false discoveries.
In 1887, for example, the Dutch anatomist Marie Eugène François Thomas DuBois moved to the Dutch East Indies and joined the Dutch Army as a medical officer. Aided by two army engineers and some forced laborers, in 1890 DuBois moved his search for fossils to the island of Java, where two years previously a human skull had been found. Once there, DuBois’s workers found an incomplete skull and, upon widening the search, a partial jawbone with three teeth attached, on the banks of the Solo River. Further searches uncovered a molar, an intact skullcap, and a thighbone. In 1894, DuBois published a description of his fossils, claiming that they came from one creature and that, when put together, they represented a link between ape and human that he called
Pithecanthropus erectus,
“ape-human that stands upright.” Informally, the fossils were known as Java Man.
DuBois’s theory was never fully accepted even after his return to Europe in 1895. Some scientists charged that the thighbone and skullcap were unrelated and represented two separate individuals. Others merely argued against DuBois’s claim that the specimen represented an intermediate primate, or missing link. Stung by the controversy, DuBois had stopped discussing Java Man all together by the turn of the century and hid the fossils away from the public in his home. Today, Java Man has been lumped in with other fossil discoveries, classified as a large, prehistoric hominid called
Homo erectus
.
Certain “missing link” discoveries have turned out to be outright hoaxes. One of the most famous of these was the Piltdown Man, based on a large skull and jawbone found in a gravel pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England, in 1912. The artifact was given the impressive-sounding name
Eoanthropus dawsoni
or Dawson’s dawn-man, after British amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson, who claimed to have collected the remains from pit workmen.
But instead of being the missing link everyone was hoping for, Piltdown Man actually was revealed to be a gigantic hoax in 1953. Dawson and others, including even the famous Sherlock Holmes novelist Arthur Conan Doyle, were suspected of forging the missing link by combining a modern human skull with the jawbone of an orangutan. Many suspect that whoever fabricated the Piltdown Man, and it may have consisted of more than one person, did so in a shortsighted effort to support the theories of Darwin.
The Piltdown Man hoax succeeded for so long because at the time of its presentation, the scientific establishment had long supposed that the large modern human brain preceded the modern omnivorous diet. The forgery had provided exactly the evidence that suited the theory.
Public acceptance of anthropology increased in 1974 with the discovery of the skeleton of a hominid australopithecine female in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia. American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, assisted by Maurice Taieb and Yves Coppens, suggested the name Lucy after the Beatles’ tune “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was heard on a tape the night of the discovery. Lucy, a three-and-a-half-foot-tall biped, initially was considered merely another
Australopithecus africanus
, a previously known hominid from the late Pliocene epoch. It was sometime later, following other finds, that she was recognized as a separate species.
In the months following Lucy’s discovery, Johanson’s team found prehistoric hominid teeth and bones from at least thirteen individuals, collectively called
Australopithecus
333. The fossils are estimated to be about 3.2 million years old and represent a species now known as
Australopithecus afarensis
. Because this species may be even older than the Neanderthals and even
Homo erectus,
Johanson’s group of fossils is sometimes known as humankind’s first family.
Scholars Colin P. Groves, Charles E. Oxnard, and Louis Leakey have agreed that
Australopithecus
was totally different in morphology from humans. Groves commented that “non-Darwinian” principles would be required to explain any connection between Lucy and modern humans.
Conventional science now accepts that Neanderthals were also a completely separate race from humans as well. Following the first analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) taken from the fossils from the Neander Valley, Germany, in 1997,
National Geographic
concluded that Neanderthals did not contribute substantially to the modern human genome.
If the empirical evidence doesn’t support Darwin’s theory of evolution, what can account for our existence? Hominids, a term used to describe humans as well as closely related apes, evolved at a slow and steady pace until about 450,000 years ago, when the primate family tree began to divide, creating many separate branches of species during the late Pleistocene epoch. Interestingly enough, this period of change coincides with dates during which the Sumerian tablets described extraterrestrials manipulating the human DNA.
Woe be to those who attempt to argue against conventional thinking. According to many independent researchers, there appears to be a conspiracy against any discovery that conflicts with prevailing wisdom. Consider the fate of Thomas E. Lee of the National Museum of Canada. In the early 1950s, Lee discovered sophisticated stone tools caught in ice on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. These tools were proven to be at least 65,000 years old and perhaps as old as 125,000 years, totally contradicting conventional theories concerning the date that such well-fashioned stone tools were first created. Following his discovery, Lee claimed he was “hounded” from his position, his work was misrepresented, and no one would publish his findings. Most of the artifacts he found “vanished” into storage bins, and the museum director was fired for refusing to discharge Lee.
“The treatment of Lee was not an isolated case,” noted Cremo and Thompson in
Forbidden Archeology
. “There exists in the scientific community a knowledge filter that screens out unwelcome evidence. This process of knowledge filtration has been going on for well over a century and continues right up to the present day.” One particularly exasperated researcher recently wrote, “Realize, that scientific institutions, such as the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society, are set up by the world’s elite factions in the first place to either debunk, distort or simply ignore any scientific data that tends to enlighten people about their true origins.”
Michael Cremo said he saw in science evidence of both misfeasance and malpractice. “You can find many cases where it’s just an automatic process. It’s just human nature that a person will tend to reject things that don’t fit in with his particular world view,” he said. Cremo cited the words of a young paleontologist and expert on ancient whale bones at the Museum of Natural History in San Diego. Asked if he ever found signs of human markings on any of the bones, the scientist responded, “I tend to stay away from anything that has to do with humans because it’s just too controversial.”
Cremo was suspicious of activities by the Rockefeller Foundation in its funding of Canadian paleoanthropologist Davidson Black, who conducted research in China and came to the conclusion that humankind originated in Asia, specifically China and Tibet. Correspondence between Black and his superiors with the foundation indicated that Black’s work was part of a broader agenda. One letter stated, “ … thus we may gain information about our [human] behavior of the sort that can lead to wide and beneficial control.” Cremo saw this as meaning that the research was being funded with the specific goal of control. “Control by whom?” Cremo wondered.
“The motive to manipulate is not so hard to understand,” explained J. Douglas Kenyon, publisher of the magazine
Atlantis Rising
. “There’s a lot of social power connected with explaining who we are and what we are,” he says. “Somebody once said knowledge is power. You could also say power is knowledge. Some people have particular power and prestige that enables them to dictate the agenda of our society. I think it’s not surprising that they are resistant to any change.”
Kenyon believes that scientists today have become a virtual priest class, exercising many of the rights and prerogatives that their forebears in the industrial-scientific revolution sought to wrest from an entrenched religious establishment. They set the tone and the direction for our civilization on a worldwide basis, he says. “If you want to know something today you usually don’t go to a priest or a spiritually inclined person, you go to one of these people because they’ve convinced us that our world is a very mechanistic place, and everything can be explained mechanically by the laws of physics and chemistry which are currently accepted by the establishment. … I think many people are starting to see that the world view they are presenting, just doesn’t account for everything in human experience.”
Brad Steiger, author of
Worlds Before Our Own
, wrote, “Archaeologists, anthropologists, and various academicians who play the ‘origins of Man’ game, reluctantly and only occasionally acknowledge instances where unique skeletal and cultural evidence from the prehistoric record suddenly appear long before they should and in places where they should not. These irritating artifacts destroy the orderly evolutionary line that academia has for so long presented to the public. Consequently, such data have been largely left buried in site reports, forgotten storage rooms, and dusty archives where one suspects that there is a great deal of suppressed, ignored, and misplaced pre-historical cultural evidence that would alter the established interpretations of human origins and provide us with a much clearer definition of what it means to be human.”