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Originally Posted by modest

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:[LIST=1][*]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.

Possibly; but the article is from 1909 when standards were quite different for newspaper layouts than today.

Originally Posted by Modest

*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.

Mmmmm...Tutankamen comes to mind.

Originally Posted by Modest

*The mummies were all male? It also says they were all wrapped. Did they do x-rays or DNA tests?

Again, this was 1909 and given x-rays weren't discovered until 1895, it seems unlikely the technology was available.

Originally Posted by Modest

Weren't native Americans all about carving pueblos into rock faces? That's all I got for this list

Some yes, some not so much. But then this is reported as not Native American construction and artifacts.

Originally Posted by Modest

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:

Of course they wouldn't lie.

Originally Posted by Modest

Yeah, looks like it's entirely made up. I wonder why.

-modest

Certainly an option, but that declaration seems a bit mature. Let's milk this cow a bit more shall we? .............