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Hapgood located a house that had been built at the same location in 1930.
According to Dennis Swift, “They found a house directly over the site owned by the Chief of Police and asked permission to dig beneath the floor of his house. Permission was granted, and they dug a six-foot-deep pit beneath the hard concrete floor of the living room, unearthing dozens of the controversial objects. Since the house had been built twenty-five years previously, it exonerated Julsrud, eliminated the hoax theory, and negated [two reports alleging fakery] at all the important points.”
One enduring mystery—or conspiracy—stems from reports of the discovery of ancient Egyptian artifacts in the north end of the Grand Canyon at the beginning of the last century. According to a front-page article in the Phoenix Gazette of April 5, 1909, an expedition funded by the Smithsonian Institution had begun work following the discovery of a “great underground citadel” in a cave “some 42 miles up the [Colorado] river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon.”
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
According to Dennis Swift, “They found a house directly over the site owned by the Chief of Police and asked permission to dig beneath the floor of his house. Permission was granted, and they dug a six-foot-deep pit beneath the hard concrete floor of the living room, unearthing dozens of the controversial objects. Since the house had been built twenty-five years previously, it exonerated Julsrud, eliminated the hoax theory, and negated [two reports alleging fakery] at all the important points.”
One enduring mystery—or conspiracy—stems from reports of the discovery of ancient Egyptian artifacts in the north end of the Grand Canyon at the beginning of the last century. According to a front-page article in the Phoenix Gazette of April 5, 1909, an expedition funded by the Smithsonian Institution had begun work following the discovery of a “great underground citadel” in a cave “some 42 miles up the [Colorado] river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon.”
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
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