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north end of the Grand Canyon when he came across concrete platforms. Knowing of the Egyptian artifacts story, he surmised that the platforms may have been the base for cranes to lower heavy artifacts from the cave on the sheer rock face. David Hatcher Childress, who founded the World Explorers Club, looked into the matter. After obtaining a map of the Grand Canyon, Childress and club members reported:
Poring over the map, we were amazed to see that much of the area on the north side of the canyon has Egyptian names. The area around Ninety-four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek had areas (rock formations, apparently) with names like Tower of Set, Tower of Ra, Horus Temple, Osiris Temple, and Isis Temple. In the Haunted Canyon area were such names as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Manu Temple and Shiva Temple. Was there any relationship between these places and the alleged Egyptian discoveries in the Grand Canyon?
We called a state archaeologist at the Grand Canyon, and were told that the early explorers had just liked Egyptian and Hindu names, but that it was true that this area was off limits to hikers or other visitors, because of dangerous caves. Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names in the Grand Canyon is a forbidden zone—no one is allowed into this large area. We could only conclude that this was the area where the vaults were located. Yet today, this area is curiously off-limits to all hikers and even, in large part, park personnel.
The Vatican has been long accused of keeping artifacts and ancient books in their vast cellars, without allowing the outside world access to them. These secret treasures, often of a controversial historical or religious nature, are allegedly suppressed by the Catholic Church because they might damage the church’s credibility, or perhaps cast their official texts in doubt. Sadly, there is overwhelming evidence that something very similar is happening with the Smithsonian Institution.
HOAXES AND FORGERIES
In addition to the problems of inconsistency that plague Darwin’s theory of evolution, efforts to solve the “missing link” problem have been hampered by false discoveries.
In 1887, for example, the Dutch anatomist Marie Eugène François Thomas DuBois moved to the Dutch East Indies and joined the Dutch Army as a medical officer. Aided by two army engineers and some forced laborers, in 1890 DuBois moved his search for fossils to the island of Java, where two years previously a human skull had been found. Once there, DuBois’s workers found an incomplete skull and, upon widening the search, a partial jawbone with three teeth attached, on the banks of the Solo River. Further searches uncovered a molar, an intact skullcap, and a thighbone. In 1894, DuBois published a description of his fossils, claiming that they came from one creature and that, when put together, they represented a link between ape and human that he called Pithecanthropus erectus, “ape-human that stands upright.” Informally, the fossils were known as Java Man.
DuBois’s theory was never fully accepted even after his return to Europe in 1895. Some scientists charged that the thighbone and skullcap were unrelated and represented two separate individuals. Others merely argued against DuBois’s claim that the specimen represented an intermediate primate, or missing link. Stung by the controversy, DuBois had stopped discussing Java Man all together by the turn of the century and hid the fossils away from the public in his home. Today, Java Man has been lumped in with other fossil discoveries, classified as a large, prehistoric hominid called Homo erectus .
Certain “missing link” discoveries have turned out to be outright hoaxes. One of the most famous of these was the Piltdown Man, based on a large skull and jawbone found in a gravel pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England, in 1912. The artifact was given the impressive-sounding name Eoanthropus dawsoni or
Poring over the map, we were amazed to see that much of the area on the north side of the canyon has Egyptian names. The area around Ninety-four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek had areas (rock formations, apparently) with names like Tower of Set, Tower of Ra, Horus Temple, Osiris Temple, and Isis Temple. In the Haunted Canyon area were such names as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Manu Temple and Shiva Temple. Was there any relationship between these places and the alleged Egyptian discoveries in the Grand Canyon?
We called a state archaeologist at the Grand Canyon, and were told that the early explorers had just liked Egyptian and Hindu names, but that it was true that this area was off limits to hikers or other visitors, because of dangerous caves. Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names in the Grand Canyon is a forbidden zone—no one is allowed into this large area. We could only conclude that this was the area where the vaults were located. Yet today, this area is curiously off-limits to all hikers and even, in large part, park personnel.
The Vatican has been long accused of keeping artifacts and ancient books in their vast cellars, without allowing the outside world access to them. These secret treasures, often of a controversial historical or religious nature, are allegedly suppressed by the Catholic Church because they might damage the church’s credibility, or perhaps cast their official texts in doubt. Sadly, there is overwhelming evidence that something very similar is happening with the Smithsonian Institution.
HOAXES AND FORGERIES
In addition to the problems of inconsistency that plague Darwin’s theory of evolution, efforts to solve the “missing link” problem have been hampered by false discoveries.
In 1887, for example, the Dutch anatomist Marie Eugène François Thomas DuBois moved to the Dutch East Indies and joined the Dutch Army as a medical officer. Aided by two army engineers and some forced laborers, in 1890 DuBois moved his search for fossils to the island of Java, where two years previously a human skull had been found. Once there, DuBois’s workers found an incomplete skull and, upon widening the search, a partial jawbone with three teeth attached, on the banks of the Solo River. Further searches uncovered a molar, an intact skullcap, and a thighbone. In 1894, DuBois published a description of his fossils, claiming that they came from one creature and that, when put together, they represented a link between ape and human that he called Pithecanthropus erectus, “ape-human that stands upright.” Informally, the fossils were known as Java Man.
DuBois’s theory was never fully accepted even after his return to Europe in 1895. Some scientists charged that the thighbone and skullcap were unrelated and represented two separate individuals. Others merely argued against DuBois’s claim that the specimen represented an intermediate primate, or missing link. Stung by the controversy, DuBois had stopped discussing Java Man all together by the turn of the century and hid the fossils away from the public in his home. Today, Java Man has been lumped in with other fossil discoveries, classified as a large, prehistoric hominid called Homo erectus .
Certain “missing link” discoveries have turned out to be outright hoaxes. One of the most famous of these was the Piltdown Man, based on a large skull and jawbone found in a gravel pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England, in 1912. The artifact was given the impressive-sounding name Eoanthropus dawsoni or
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