In my last article I wrote about watching “The Bible” miniseries and the story of Abraham and Sarah, and my changing frame of reference. I also introduced Graham Hancock’s book, Fingerprints of the Gods, which I would next write about and how it had a similar effect in my questioning my previous frame of reference.
Fingerprints of the Gods is not a book I would have normally chosen to read because fiction dominates my reading list. But I was fascinated by the myriad of subject areas covered in Hancock’s book. Two of which I’ll describe here—pyramids and precession. Much of what he wrote about, put into question some of what I had understood about the past but hadn’t thought about for a long time.
The famous Egyptian pyramids were built an estimated 4,500 years ago and thought to be the tombs of Egypt’s pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. But why, Hancock points out, having studied, investigated and visited the pyramids multiple times prior to the book’s publication in 1995, is there little to no evidence of these individuals around the pyramids. One would think they would have been full of markings and articles to honor and identify the pharaohs to the afterworld.
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