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Originally Posted by Turtle
If so, where is the network of caves exactly, and where are the artifacts from it now?
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There's a good question. My first instinct would be either: the entire story is made up; or, some pre-Columbian native ruins have been blown out of proportion.
Making me think it's made up:- There is no author attributed to the article. If the author believed he was reporting the find of the century his/her name would be in bold above, below, and several times throughout.
- This bit sounds suspicious to me:
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First, I would impress that the cavern is nearly inaccessible. The entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheer canyon wall. It is located on government land and no visitor will be allowed there under penalty of trespass. The scientists wish to work unmolested, without fear of archeological discoveries being disturbed by curio or relic hunters.
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- Way too perfect. No real archeological find has ever been so complete. They found heiroglyphs, pottery, copper tools, materials for making copper tools, gold vases, statues, mummies, ect.
- The mummies were all male? It also says they were all wrapped. Did they do x-rays or DNA tests?
Making me think it's a real find that's exaggerated:- Weren't native Americans all about carving pueblos into rock faces? That's all I got for this list
I just found a website discussing the article in length (a lot of length):
Canyonitis: Seeing evidence of ancient Egypt in the Grand Canyon
According to it, the Smithsonian has no record of the find or the scientists quoted in the paper:
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"But the story gets weirder when the Smithsonian stated that it had no Kinkaid or Jordan on record. In one enquiry from 2000, the institution replied: The Smithsonian Institution has received many questions about an article in the April 5, 1909 Phoenix Gazette about G. E. Kincaid and his discovery of a 'great underground citadel' in the Grand Canyon, hewn by an ancient race 'of oriental origin, possibly from Egypt.' [
] The Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology, has searched its files without finding any mention of a Professor Jordan, Kincaid, or a lost Egyptian civilization in Arizona. Nevertheless, the story continues to be repeated in books and articles.
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Yeah, looks like it's entirely made up. I wonder why.
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