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From: Graham William Birdsall <106151.1150@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:58:17 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 10:55:05 -0500
Subject: Bauval & Hancock 'Hieroglyph' Newsletter

Dear Colleagues,

Time permits me to submit the following text, derived from "The Bauval &
Hancock Newsletter" entitled "Hieroglyph".  Trust you find it of interest.

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the first 'Keeper of Genesis' newsletter, dedicated to the work
and theories of Graham Hancock & Robert Bauval.

The purpose of this newsletter is to provide all those people who were
intrigued, interested and shocked by the situation at Giza revealed by
Graham Hancock & Robert Bauval in their best-selling book 'Keeper of
Genesis' with up-to-date information on the developments that have happened
since its publication in May 1996. Although, officially at least, there are
no new discoveries to report, there have been numerous developments in the
situation itself. A week, as they say, is a long time in politics, and the
ins and outs of the past few months vis-a-vis the situation at Giza would
fill an entire book, not just a newsletter, so here we shall present just a
summary of the main points.

Already public pressure has seemingly led to the cancellation of the Schor
Foundation-funded project at the Sphinx (see Recent Events section). Graham
& Robert would like to thank you for your continuing support on this issue.

This newsletter, as well as giving information on books in the pipeline by
Graham & Robert, will provide details of up-and-coming events and
conferences in which Graham & Robert are taking part. Please do make every
effort to come to these events. Graham & Robert would love to see you
there, so come and hear the latest news from the horses' mouth, so to
speak.

I do hope you find this newsletter informative and interesting. The public
has a right to know what is happening as regards the great monuments at
Giza, for they are a legacy, not just to a few individuals who can buy
access and exclusivity to the sites, but to the whole of the human race.

RECENT EVENTS

The 'Door' in the Great Pyramid

Concerning the door at the southern shaft of the Queen's chamber in the
Great Pyramid, since the book was published a number of developments have
taken place, but the situation still lies unresolved.

Up till the end of 1995 the Egyptian Antiquity Organisation's official
position was of disinterest. They had refused Gantenbrink's offer to train
an Egyptian technician to use his Upuaut Robot which he would donate to the
Egyptian government. The official line was that they were too busy. The
Director General of the Giza Plateau said, 'I do not think this is a door
and nothing is behind it.' But in March 1996 the "Egyptian Gazette"
reported him as saying that it was of huge interest, and said that it would
be opened in September by a multinational team led by Egyptian geologist
(and NASA contact) Dr. Farouk El Baz.

Another robot was commissioned, and was to be built by Canadian Amtex and
Spar Aerospace (who built the robotic arm for the Space Shuttle), headed by
a Dutch-Canadian businessman named Peter Zuuring, who suggested that a date
of early 1997 was more feasible, as $10 million had to be raised for the
project, and it was to be promoted via a live opening on TV. He said, 'I'm
working with a private guy who is a personal friend of Hawass, and we are
absolutely going to drum this thing to death. Whatever the event we are
going to stage, it will be televised live.'

THE TUNNELS UNDER THE SPHINX

Following the eviction from Giza by Dr. Zahi Hawass of John Anthony West
and his colleagues (including geologist Robert Schoch, and the seismologist
Thomas Dobecki, who identified a large rectangular chamber concealed in the
bedrock 20 feet below the front paws of the Sphinx), and the subsequent
re-application by Mr West in co-operation with the prestigious Princeton
Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, (which was turned down), a
one-year license was granted at the end of March 1996 to a new team that
claimed academic sponsorship from Florida State University (and reportedly
involved the participation of four geologists from that University).

The team was largely financed by Dr. Joseph Schor, an American
multi-millionaire and life-member of the Association for Research and
Enlightenment (ARE). This association, based in Virginia Beach in the US,
is a multi-million-dollar organisation that exists to promulgate the
teachings of the American psychic Edgar Cayce. Prominent among Cayce's
pronouncements were many statements to the effect that the Sphinx had been
built in 10,500 BC by the survivors of Atlantis who had concealed beneath
it a "Hall of Records" containing all the wisdom of their lost civilisation
and the true history of the human race. Cayce prophesied that the "Hall of
Records" would be rediscovered and opened between 1996 and 1998. He
connected the opening with the second coming of Christ and asserted that
the contents of the Hall would not be shared with the general public until
many years after it had first been entered by "three who would make of the
perfect way of life."

Cayce's prophecies had been mentioned in the NBC television film by Boris
Said called "The Mystery of the Sphinx" about the work of John Anthony
West, which had incensed Dr. Hawass whose official line was that he was
opposed to the notion of the Sphinx being far older than the ancient
Egyptian civilisation that historians claim built it. How ironic then, that
Hawass should appear in a promotional video, "Secret Chamber" also made by
Boris Said in Nov/Dec 1995, and financed by Joseph Schor (to the tune of
$100,000). In the video Dr. Hawass talks of opening the tunnels under the
Sphinx and mentions the Cayce prophecy. That he should also grant a license
to a team financed by Dr. Schor makes the irony all the greater. Dr. Hawass
also stated his wish 'to further delineate that civilisation'.

On 11 April 1996, when Hancock & Bauval informed Joseph Schor that they
intended to write about these matters in the London "Daily Mail", he
threatened them with a libel action and stated, 'We do not work for the
Edgar Cayce group... The major purpose of the Schor Foundation and the
Florida State University is to aid in the preservation and restoration of
the Pyramids and Sphinx. In addition we are surveying the underground of
the Giza Plateau to find faults and chasms that might collapse. This will
increase the safety of the Plateau because chasms and faults can be
collapsed or roped off for the protection of tourists and Plateau
personnel.'

On 14 April 1996, in the "Egyptian Gazette", Dr. Zahi Hawass gave a rather
different account, mentioning hidden tunnels around the Pyramids and the
Sphinx. He made no mention of public safety but hinted that excavation of
the tunnels would reveal many clues regarding the establishment of the Giza
pyramids.

In July 1966, after worldwide protest over the activities of the Schor
Foundation and Florida State University at the Sphinx, Dr. Hawass claimed
on South Africa radio that he had halted the project: 'I found that their
work is not following the correct steps... I wrote a letter to them saying
that they cannot do work again because they are not really following the
correct work.'

The same month, however, rumours began to circulate that the team had
identified nine further tunnels or chambers under the Giza Plateau. In all
of them, apparently, their remote-sensing equipment had identified objects
made of metal.

In early Autumn a conference took place in Delaware (US) in which both
Graham & Robert took part. During their stay they both appeared on the Art
Bell radio show in a four-hour live debate with Richard Hoagland, the
author of several books on the Martian anomolies (see section on Mars
later), who also attended conferences with Graham & Robert in London and
Leeds earlier in the year. In the radio interview Hoagland claimed that he
met Schor for a five-hour talk AFTER Hawass's cancellation of the license.
Schor assured him that the explorations under the Sphinx were still going
ahead. This was confirmed in a fax received by Hoagland in September from
Boris Said, inviting him to be present at the opening of chambers beneath
the Sphinx in the last week of October/first week of November 1996. For
this radio debate Dr. Schor gave Hoagland carte blanche to talk of Schor's
interest in the Cayce prophecies, even though this went against his earlier
threats to sue Hancock & Bauval for saying exactly the same thing.

On this same show, both Graham & Robert appealed for an independent
international investigation to sort out the controversies surrounding the
work done on the Sphinx. They suggested UNESCO could undertake this, as it
had previously declared the Sphinx and the Pyramids a world heritage site.

Between 22 and 26 November 1996, Robert Bauval & John Anthony West hosted a
conference at Giza in the Mena House Hotel organised by "Amateur Astronomy
and Earth Sciences Magazine" (AA & ES).

During this conference numerous attempts were made to see the new head of
the Supreme Council at Giza, Dr. Ali Hassan. Finally on 3 December, John
Anthony West managed to meet Dr. Hassan, and documents and videos
concerning the controversy at Giza were handed to the latter. Dr. Hassan
was totally unfamiliar and unaware of the involvement of the Edgar Cayce
Foundation and its members at Giza since the late 1970s, and he said that
no license to undertake digging under the Sphinx, or of opening the door in
the Pyramid would be implemented before he verified the situation left to
him by his predecessor, Dr. Nur-El Din.

Both Robert Bauval & John Anthony West plan to meet with Dr. Hassan again
to further discuss this matter.

LIFE ON MARS?, A FORTHCOMING BOOK AND THE MANCHESTER MARS CONFERENCE

Following the announcement of possible signs of life found in a Martian
meteorite last summer, Bauval & Hancock wrote a series of exclusive
articles for the "Daily Mail" newspaper in London.

In their research they had stumbled across a tangled web of clues,
connections and overlapping interests to suggest that American scientists
with links to NASA may have quietly involved themselves, since at least the
1970s in covert 'expeditions' to unveil the secrets of the Great Pyramids
and the Great Sphinx of Giza. The story, oddly enough, appears to be
running in parallel with research stemming from the existence of curious
pyramidal structures (and a gigantic Sphinx-like 'face') that were
photographed on Mars by spacecraft during the 1970s. They are intrigued by
the apparent correspondence between what has been found on Mars and the
sites at Giza, and at the connections between the personnel in the Sphinx
project and those involved in the Mars project.

NASA's official view is that these structures on Mars are merely 'tricks of
light', but in 1975 one Dr. James Hurtak, a graduate in remote-sensing
technology (and an acquaintance of Mark Lehner's), one of the earliest
researchers to show interest in these 'pyramids', predicted that further
finds of similar structures, including a Sphinx-like monument, would be
made on Mars, and that these structures would be linked to the Giza
monuments in a great cosmic blueprint.

In 1976 NASA's second Mars probe, 'Viking 1', entered orbit around the red
planet and took photographs of its surface, which later showed the 'face'
and a five-sided structure now called the 'D&M Pyramid' in the region known
as 'Cydonia'.

It was recently reported to Graham & Robert that team members of the
Schor-funded Florida State University project at the Sphinx granted by the
Egyptian Antiquities Organisation last March, had consulted with Dr. James
Hurtak and Richard Hoagland, former NASA consultant and founder of the
Independent Mars Project.

Moreover, Dr. Farouk El Baz, chosen to lead a team to open the secret door
in the southern shaft of the Queen's chamber of the Great Pyramid, is a
NASA consultant, was the man who chose the landing spot for the Apollo 11
Moon landing, and has been involved for many years with studies of
geological formations on the Moon and Mars.

On 7 December 1996 at the Manchester Conference Centre, Robert Bauval took
part in a conference on "The Mars Enigma". Other speakers included Ananda
Sirisena, who has found a possible second 'face' in the Cydonia region of
Mars, and who spoke on the geometrical arrangements of the 'mounds', and
Mark J. Carlotto, who also appeared with Graham & Robert at a Zurich
conference last February.

Mark has contributed much to the Mars debate, with his expertise on
computer image-enhancem,ent and 3D computer modelling, which have refined
the 'Viking' photographs so that they can be accurately depicted and
measured. He is very much interested in possible astronomical alignments of
features on Mars, that correlate to Graham & Robert's archaeo-astronomical
discoveries at Giza.=20

FORTHCOMING EVENT

Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock will be talking on "Keeper of Genesis" and
related subjects at the College of Psychic Studies, London, on 25 March.
The cost is =A36 made payable to the College of Psychic Studies, contact
Becca Maravolo on 0171 589 3292 or Fax 0171 589 2824.

ARTICLES

Keep watch in "UFO Magazine" and "AA & ES Magazine" for articles by John
Anthony West and Robert Bauval (Jan/Feb '97 of the former has a special
interview with Robert Bauval).

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