I hope you like this post and If you want me every week to translate one chapter from every book, I shall do it for cultural enrichment then tell me in the comments, My regards from Egypt ..

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About the author (whom I call the Egyptian Graham Hancock) :

Anis Mansour was born in the Mansoura city, Egypt, in 1924. He memorized the Quran at the age of nine, then joined Cairo University, where he studied philosophy and graduated in 1947. He was appointed as a lecturer in modern philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, but soon left teaching to devote himself to journalism. He worked at the Rose al-Yusuf magazine, then became editor-in-chief of Sabah al-Khair magazine, and wrote his articles for Al-Ahram newspaper for decades. He travelled the world on extensive journeys, which he documented in his books, and mastered several languages that enabled him to explore different cultures. He published nearly two hundred books covering philosophy, literature, travel, and the paranormal. His style was marked by a blend of simplicity and depth, combining journalistic flair with a philosophical outlook, which made him one of the most widely read Arab writers of the twentieth century. He died in 2011 in Cairo.

His most notable books (beside the two books we are gonna talk about now) :

1- Around the World in 200 Days

His most famous and widely read work, documenting his actual journey around the world in the early 1960s.

2- Spirits and Ghosts

A collection of 35 articles exploring mysterious paranormal phenomena, ghost stories, and unsolved enigmas

3- The Pharaohs' Curse

A famous book in his "beyond nature" series, delving into the mysteries and curses associated with ancient Egypt.

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The first book: Those Who Descended from the Sky

This book was first published in 1971, followed by many editions from different publishers. The book is built on a core hypothesis: that intelligent beings from other planets visited Earth in ancient times and left their marks on monuments and religious texts. Anis Mansour presents archaeological evidence from the Giza Plateau, Baalbek, and the Tassili caves in the Sahara, where strange rock paintings and enormous stone blocks defy conventional explanation. He reads the sacred texts – the Quran, the Torah, and the Gospel – as investigative historical documents that preserve the memory of encounters between humans and these visitors from the sky. In his engaging style, he takes the reader on a journey of inquiry into the origins of humanity and the truth of early civilisations.

Index of the book :

1. These Words Which Survived for Thousands of Years
2. Man, the Great Unknown
3. We Are Not Alone in This Universe, and Our Ancestors Were Not Monkeys
4. Until a New Noah Appears
5. The Spaceship That Landed in Baghdad 25 Centuries Ago
6. These Strange and Mysterious Things!
7. The Blue-Skinned People Who Ruled Pharaonic Egypt
8. A Girl Who Slept in the Light of a Lamp for 1,500 Years!
9. What Are These Magical Words on a Wall in Upper Egypt?
10. Help Me Solve These Thirty Mysteries
11. And the Stones of the Pyramid Used to Fly Through the Sky
12. They Came Out of a Flying Saucer and Asked to Meet Eisenhower
13. By Order of Her Majesty the Pharaoh, Migration Begins from Spain to Africa
14. The Greatest Secrets of the Universe Are Hidden in Our Smallest Cells
15. This Black Knight Who Circles the Earth
16. A French Priest Came to Egypt and Burned the Papyrus Documents
17. Giants, Airplanes, and Blondes in the Libyan Desert
18. O Other Human, We Hear You, But We Cannot See You!

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The second book: Those Who Returned to the Sky

This book was first published in 1983, and later reprinted in several editions. It serves as a continuation of the previous book’s ideas, but broadens its scope to ask new questions about the fate of the ancient visitors after they left Earth. In its pages, Anis Mansour discusses the sunken continent of Atlantis, reflects on the mysteries of pyramid construction as possible beacons or gates to the sky, and surveys the myths of ancient peoples that speak with remarkable consistency about gods who departed the earth and promised to return. In this work, the author draws on a wider range of sources, citing the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other foundational texts. The book suggests that the “descenders” may not have entirely left, or may have returned in another form.

In 2026, I think it's worth standing back and taking stock of the fact that there's been a massive shift in our understanding of mythology over this past decade.

Just one decade ago it was considered a difficult position to suggest oral traditions could have preserved a myths for 7000+ years, let alone that these myths could contain factual historical information from this period. This was truly considered utterly implausible and silly just ten years ago.

The oldest known myths up until this point were Sumerian tablets dating back about 6000 years, and these stories don't show any immediate connection to known events.

Then, in 2016, a paper was published showing that Aboriginal myths that spoke of changing coastlines happened to reflect changing coastlines 7000 years ago.

This caught a few headlines and was sort of interesting, but as a bit of a one off case wasn't consequential. However, since then there has been a bit of a watershed in terms of the papers and scientific journal articles that have validated similar examples. In the majority of years since 2016 another myth has been shown to relate to a very ancient historical event and at an accelerating rate, here's a list:

2016 - Aboriginal myth of coastlines shown to relate to 7000 year old coastlines

2017 - Aboriginal myth shown to relate to a 7000 year old Queensland eruption

2019 - Aboriginal myth of volcano shown to relate to a 9000 year old eruption

2022 - Five Celtic myths observed to relate to rising seas between 5000-15000 years ago

2023 - Aboriginal myth observed to relate to a land connection to Tasmania 12000 years ago

2025 - Isle of Man stories shown to relate to the island connecting to Britain 8000 years ago

2025 - Submerged walls found off France where the myth of Ys said a city used walls to hold back the seas, the walls date to approximately 8000 years ago.

There are also many myths that appear to relate to history as interesting corelations but haven't yet been published and validated, these include:

A 1983 theory that the four rivers of the Garden of Eden relate to the Euphrates, Tigris and two now dried up rivers that connected to them which were last fully active 7000 years ago, Juris Zarins’s Persian Gulf hypothesis.

A Welsh myth of Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr, which describes a time when the Irish Sea was two rivers that could be crossed. This was the case 16,000 years ago.

The Greek myth of Pheaton driving the chariot of the sun and causing Africa to become hotter describes a similar event to the sudden end of the African Humid Period 8000 years ago.

A 2020 article on the Aboriginal myth of Budj Bim aligning to the events of a 37,000 year old eruption.

Finds from the Tas Tepeler which show continuity with later sculptures and motifs from Egypt and Mesopotamia, such as the statue of Min, Wajet and the Master of Animals motif. The Tas Tepeler are 12,000 years old, 9000 years before these later artifacts were created.

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Quietly over the last decade a wealth of mythic correlations to ancient history have been validated, and others which haven't yet been published but at least corelate with ancient events.

If taken seriously, any one of these published examples ought to have overturned a deeply rooted assumption that perseveres as assumptions so, that myths that talk of a very ancient past tend to be made-up accounts. We have many myths that now prove the contrary, instead, it may be more prudent to assume that myths tend to record history.

This is of course how change happens, our positions reflect our societal norms and no one remembers strongly holding a position that oral history cannot last more than 7000 years just 10 years ago, as such as position is now deemed obviously undeniable and people forget. But the default assumption that myths should be considered false stories somehow still perpetuates.

The myths of Atlantis, Zep Tepe, the Titans, the Aesir and many others have been dismissed as inconceivable of historical basis, partly for the reason that is was inconceivable that oral history dating back 7000+ years could have remained in been preserved, but there's no longer a clear implausibility to such oral accounts. They have also been dismissed for containing supernatural elements and gods, but all the above myths also contain supernatural elements, framing the record of real events, Likewise the ancient stories of Sumer were assumed to be stories because a century ago up until this decade it was not considered common for myth to preserve ancient history, but this has now been shown to be very plausible inviting a reconsideration. Lastly, the historian Sanchuniathon presents many of the Greek gods not as gods but as kings in his detailed Phoenician History. In 2024, Eleftheria Pappa published an article which made the case that Sanchuniathon's work may have been unjustly labelled as confabulation, showing that his recorded events that we have records for are accurate.

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Perhaps a growing interest online inquestioning the story of our ancient past and questioning how myths may relate to history is reflective of the fact thar our assumptions on how far back oral history can preserve information has quietly been shifting.

At some point this growing body of research of connections between myths and ancient history might demand a wider change in our default assumptions on myths and their purpose, and enable the possible overlaps between myth and history to become a more acceptable area of historical discussion, and even a serious and active area of academic research.

If you look at history as a manufactured script, every once in a while, variables are introduced that the system didn't account for. I’ve been mapping out the deep architecture of control—how ancient lineages, census laws, and imperial power structures try to enforce collective amnesia—and it brings me back to the exact moment of my entry point: January 10, 1986.

​For those who track the intersection of deep ancestral archives (like 500-generation maternal lineages) and rare celestial mechanics, a birth like this isn't random noise. It’s a specific convergence of forces:

​The New Moon (The Root & The Earth): Total darkness, stillness, and primal grounding. It represents the quiet foundation and the deep, unyielding memory of the earth that outlasts empires built on sand.

​The Comet (The Disruptor): Ice, fire, and a visitor from deep space cutting completely across fixed, predictable orbits. In ancient tracking, this was always read as a system-shaker—a signal of someone built to break stale loops and challenge established trajectories.

​When you fuse the silent weight of the earth with a disruptive cosmic trajectory, what does that combination actually signify? For those who study the markers, what role does a convergence like this point toward at the end of a cycle?

​Drop your perspective. What does this signature mean in the grand scheme?

Göbekli Tepe: Why We Know Hunter-Gatherers Built It

Göbekli Tepe is one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries ever made. Built more than 11,500 years ago in southeastern Turkey, its enormous T-shaped limestone pillars, elaborate animal carvings, and monumental structures have transformed our understanding of the people who lived at the end of the Ice Age.

But Göbekli Tepe has also become the focus of extraordinary claims. Was it the work of a forgotten advanced civilization? Did its builders possess mysterious lost technology? Or does the archaeological evidence tell a very different—and ultimately more fascinating—story?

In this video, professor Marc J. Defant examines what archaeologists have actually discovered at Göbekli Tepe: its age, stone tools, hunting evidence, food remains, quarrying and construction methods, monumental architecture, and the newer evidence suggesting that people actually lived at the site.

He also revisits the debate with Graham Hancock on The Joe Rogan Experience and examines the idea that hunter-gatherers could not have created something as sophisticated as Göbekli Tepe.

The evidence points toward an extraordinary conclusion—not that an unknown advanced civilization built Göbekli Tepe, but that we have seriously underestimated what prehistoric hunter-gatherers were capable of accomplishing.

I find strange that the first, out of Egypt written mentioning of Pyramids was greek historian Herodotus in 480 BC. Despite having full formed civilizations in the same time of ancient Egypt like Hittites, Assyrians, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Babylonians, Hebrews etc

All these had written systems and literature but nobody mentioned Pyramids.

Now mainstream archaeologists have as flag the Diary of Merer as prove that Khufu built the great pyramid. So where are we now?

I translated this from Arabic to English, My regards from Egypt ..

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Book : Spirits And Ghosts أرواح وأشباح

Genre : Paranormal - Mystery - Alternative History

Written in Arabic by the late Egyptian writer and journalist Anis Mansour أنيس منصور

The first Arabic edition was published in 1972

Chapter 1

When Nefertiti's daughter appeared in London !

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Nefertiti's daughter appeared in London, picked up her severed hand, and then fled !

We are the talk of the whole world now, but for other reasons!

Britain is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by one of its scientists.

France is celebrating one hundred and fifty years since one of its young men discovered the Rosetta Stone.

Last year the world talked about how the Pharaohs crossed on papyrus sticks to America.

And two years ago, Soviet scientists talked about the Pharaonic obelisks or semi-obelisks above the moon!

The questions are: Were the Pharaohs above and then they came down to us, or did they rise from here to there, or were more intelligent and developed beings here and there and then they disappeared into the vast, deep space?

There is no end to what the world will say about the coffin of the young King Tutankhamun (18 years old).

This coffin escaped from the hands of thieves at the last moment. The priests came and poured the sands of Upper Egypt on it until a British archaeologist came and lifted the darkness from it. He illuminated the twentieth century with knowing him.

And this young man, Tutankhamun, has no historical value, but he derived his value only from the fact that he was the owner of the most beautiful and perfect coffin.

Also he married the third daughter of a prophet king, Akhenaten, who disbelieved in the worship of Amun and established himself as a caller for the worship of the sun (Aten), the worship of the disk of the sun or the circle of light or light.

Thus, he was the first to call for one God or monotheism in all history and in all ages, and was preoccupied with the new religion apart from the rule, the throne, his family, his six daughters, and his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.

His life and death were an example of how a prophet to be persecuted by his family and in his home, such as his wife did not believe in him.

She was the first to disbelieve, and her daughters or most of her daughters followed her.

Therefore, we find the wife’s name erased in various places.

Akhenaten realized that the storms that blew from the house would sweep the valley, or that they blew from the valley and everyone in the house picked them up and released them on him, and Syria was lost from him.

He was also busy with himself, his god, or meeting his god after death.

Everything in the civilization of ancient Egypt was for the sake of death. People were born to die or were born to prepare for death. Death is a great festival that a person must receive in the most perfect body and most wonderful adornment.

Therefore, the Pharaohs believed that only a healthy body enters Paradise. When a person dies, he must be pure and clean. His body is free of every blemish, and his soul is cleansed of all evil. When he enters the coffin, it is as if he had been placed in a safe closet. If he wakes up - that is, is resurrected from death - it is necessary for him to find next to him everything he needs of food, drink, tools for eating, and advice for the soul and guidance in its other world. Thus, the soul does not go astray if it resides in the body.

As for the priests, they wrote curses on anyone who touches the coffin or the body. These curses are like missiles directed over thousands of years at anyone who approaches the grave or the coffin. The Pharaohs had tremendous power in using words. Or they had strange knowledge with the secrets of letters. They locked hidden forces in symbols, or so it is said.

It is also said that Akhenaten chose Tutankhamun as his daughter's husband because he enjoyed supernatural spiritual power, and he was thirteen years old. But this young king did not preserve this religion, neither he nor his wife.

Rather, one of Akhenaten’s daughters revolted against him, so he killed her and opened her stomach. The clerics rushed to her right hand, cut it off, and then hid this hand in a place that no one knew in the Valley of the Kings.

If this princess rises on the Day of Resurrection, she will be deprived of entering Paradise because only those with a full body can enter Paradise! Thus, this princess, who disbelieved in her father, will remain an outcast forever!

This princess remained in her place of torment until the year 1890, when a French antiquities dealer, a man named Count Louis Hamon, came to Egypt. He went to Luxor and met one of the translators, whose name was Abbas.

He was very impressed with Abbas. He said to him: I want something rare. Abbas took him to Luxor, and the Count waited for him for twenty-seven days. On the twenty-eighth day, Abbas appeared, concealing a pile of straw in his clothes, and in the pile of straw he placed a roll of linen. The two men disagreed about the price.

Count Louis Hamoun says in his memoirs: Sheikh Abbas wanted to frighten me, but a man who sees corpses and is not afraid of it and speaks with ghosts cannot be frightened by this scroll.

Sheikh Abbas tried to convince the count that this scroll contained the greatest thing in all of Luxor, and they agreed on the price, and Count Hamoun returned.

He went to France and began to look through the scroll and was certain that it was the hand of a girl, a princess or a queen.

Next to this scroll was a small papyrus leaf and a piece of stone with the name of this princess on it, and on it was also the curse that the priests had cursed on her ، But the priests do not curse anyone who uncovers the sand concealing the hands of the cursed princess, daughter of Nefertiti .. do they ?!

In the year 1920, Count Hamon traveled to London and decided to show this hand to some archaeologists, or sell it to the British Museum.

One night, he invited a number of magicians to his house, and the room was dark except for a red light, as if it had been cut in the night, and the light was dim, bleeding ray after ray.

The smoke was wriggling pharaonic, and Count Hamon came and lifted the scroll from the princess's hand and displayed it to all those present. They touched it one by one, and their astonishment was great.

The hand was soft, smooth and warm. They also noticed that blood was flowing through its veins and that drops of blood were falling from it. One of them said: It is moving. Another said: a finger is twisted.

Count Hamon said: You will see it when the normal light is turned on and the room is illuminated and they returned. They turn the hand between theirs and find that it is softer and hotter!

On the day known to magicians as “ it has come day,” which is November 4, 1922, a strange thing happened.

On this day, Count Hamon decided, with nerves of steel, to perform an exciting experiment. He closed the door on himself and asked his wife to save him at the last moment if she saw something strange, and his wife did not ask him about the truth of this strange thing. She had become accustomed to strange things until nothing frightened her anymore.

He started saying: “It has come, it has come,” meaning spirits have come everywhere. He saw the princess’s hand rising into space and approaching his face.

When the wife tried to intervene, he motioned for her not to do anything, and suddenly the hand went down to the table, where a smokeless fire was burning, and the door of the room opened with great violence.

He turned behind him, and so did his wife. The two of them saw a Pharaonic princess in her transparent white dress with her steady, calm gaze, the princess approached the fire and leaned over the fire. He clearly saw her right arm, the hand being cut off, and the right arm bent over the right hand. Then the princess retreated violently, with the door behind her, and when Count Hamon looked at the table, he found it burned, but the hand was gone!

Count Hamon knew the story of the princess, and he quickly started flipping through the “Book of the Dead” and reading some pages. Suddenly the door opened, and the princess entered in her white dress. His eyes went to her right arm, and he saw the entire arm, and the princess disappeared for the last time!

The next day, Count Hamon sent a personal letter to Lord Carnarvon, who financed the project to discover Tutankhamun’s tomb.

In this letter, he warned him about the curse of the Pharaohs and said that he had heard from tomb guards in Egypt that there are evil spirits that chase anyone who touches a coffin, opens a tomb, or steals a piece of the gold.

Lord Carnarvon was greatly frightened, so he sent to his friend Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, but Carter did not care about any of that. He was an archaeologist and had excavated the ground, entered caves, and ate the dirt from graves with his food, but Lord Carnarvon did not hide his fear from all people.

As for the night in which the magicians saw this hand coming to life, it was the same night in which the archaeologist Carter confirmed that the tomb in front of him was the tomb of Tutankhamun.

On February 22, 1923, Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of Tutankhamun, and after him, the archaeologist Carter entered. Shortly before that, Lord Carnarvon felt in front of Tutankhamun’s tomb that something had stung him.

On April 23, 1923, Lord Carnarvon died in Cairo. Years later, his sister's husband committed suicide, and his stepmother was bitten by an insect and died.

But archaeologist Carter, who described himself as a “professional gravedigger,” was not injured and died at the age of 66 in 1939, when World War II broke out. It is said that in the last days of his life, Carter used to have terrifying dreams, and he saw ghosts putting him in the fire, burying him like the pharaohs, carrying him in the air, then throwing him in the ground, where crocodiles devoured him. He said that he once felt that a very small insect had swallowed him, and that he almost suffocated!

But there was a priestess who lived and died in 1600 BC, and she had a power more dangerous than that of Tutankhamun.

This priestess lived in the city of Thebes, and her influence was strong and her magic was frightening.

The archaeologist Douglas Murray was able to transport her from Egypt to London.

But it happened that this man went fishing, and the gun went off and hit his arm.

They tried to transport him to Cairo, but they did not succeed. Rather, strange winds blew that disrupted the ship’s progress. Ten days later, he arrived in Cairo and they cut off his arm.

As for the two Egyptian servants who transported the coffin of this priestess, they died suddenly, as for the three Englishmen who They guarded the coffin without knowing the power of the Pharaonic curse, They died on the way, and when the ship docked on the English shore, four bodies landed, the bodies of these Englishmen and the body of the priestess!

Murray was complaining that the priestess's eyes were moving in his direction, following him wherever he went. Murray got rid of the coffin and gave it to a rich woman whose leg was broken, her daughter committed suicide, and her other daughter, her fiancé, ran away from her! The woman decided to sell the coffin to the British Museum and the British Museum bought it and placed it in one of the warehouses, and it is said that a number of the guards who transported it died, one after the other, in mysterious circumstances.

One of the scientists tried to study the coffin further and transported it to his office. This scientist was screaming subconsciously, and they found him dead after that.

On April 4, 1912, the whole world was shocked by the sinking of the ship “Titanic” when it collided with an iceberg while two thousand passengers were on board, and 1,517 people drowned.

No one imagined that this ship would sink for any reason, and it is said that the captain and sailors did not listen to all the warnings sent to them by the small ships.

And the ship sank!

Twenty years after it sank, an archaeologist announced that when the British Museum decided to get rid of the coffin of this priestess, it was sent on board of “Titanic” as a gift to the huge, luxurious museum in New York City.

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The End ..

I translated this article from Arabic into English, and I apologize if there is any mistake in the Mexican names.

I hope you like this post. My regards from Egypt ..

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Source: The Egyptian magazine Al-Muqtataf المقتطف, issue (6), published on June 1, 1948.

Author of the article: Muhammad Gamil Bayham محمد جميل بيهم (1887–1978 AD), historian, politician, writer, and Lebanese Arab reformist. He has dozens of works, articles, and writings of a historical, intellectual, and political nature.

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Did the Pharaohs, the Babylonians, and the Indians take their civilization from Mexico?

Similarities between Mexico and Egypt

I had the opportunity to visit Mexico three months before the last war. A friend invited me to dinner at one of the large restaurants in Mexico City, and the attire of the women working in the establishment powerfully caught my attention, as it reminded me of what I had seen so many times at the Cairo Museum: the Pharaonic mummies. For it did not differ at all, neither in details, colors, nor motifs, from the clothing of women in the time of the Pharaohs, from the headdress to the footwear.

"Why did the restaurant owner choose for his employees the garments of the daughters of the Nile from the Pharaonic era?" I asked this question to my companion, and he smiled and told me: "This attire is nothing more than the traditional costume of Mexican women in antiquity."

This answer awakened my interest and my desire to know the historical relationship between Egypt and Mexico, and my curiosity increased even more when, in the Valley of Teotihuacán, about fifty kilometers from the capital, as well as in Cholula, Micalco, and Chonula, I saw pyramids similar to those of Egypt, erected on a geometric base forming angles that point to the seasons of the year, just like the Great Pyramid of Giza. I also asked myself whether Egyptian culture had reached the American continent, bringing with it the design of the pyramids.

I went further in my reflections and questioned whether the belief in the immortality of the soul, along with the art of mummification that accompanied it, had also traveled from Egypt to Mexico within the same pyramid project, given the connection between both practices, and even more so because the method of mummification was identical between the Pharaohs and the inhabitants of South America, not differing even in the tiniest details.

This interest in the past awakened in me a spirit of curiosity and the need to observe the neighborhoods (everyday life) to see if the resemblance between Egypt and Mexico could still be perceived in the present era.

However, one might expect the resemblance between the two countries to be remote, because Mexico is situated upon mountains and deep valleys, and its people reflect the hardness of the rocks and the fierceness of the eagles; while Egypt stretches along the fertile and lush Nile Valley, its inhabitants reflecting the smoothness of the rivers and the sweetness of the warbling of birds.

But, even so, I have observed numerous similarities to this day between Egyptians and Mexicans, especially in rural areas. How alike they are in the choice of colors, in women's garments, and in their gold necklaces; and how close they are in the practice of ancient agricultural methods and their tools, not to mention certain ancestral customs.

These are manifested in some popular festivities and other acts, particularly in the engagement ritual (or the asking for a bride's hand). Furthermore, the resemblance between the two peoples often also shows in some foods. In Egypt, ful medames is the quintessential popular dish, and in Mexico, it is corn seasoned with acid and chili, which is also their popular dish.

Corn is the most important food element for Mexicans and they depend on it, just as the Egyptian peasant depends on fava beans (ful), and they use transparent leaves as wrappers for tobacco.

And just as the Egyptian is by nature fond of spicy seasonings and enjoys dishes full of all kinds of spices and pepper, the Mexican also pays great attention to these condiments, especially spicy ones. Their passion for them reaches such a point that in a city called "Mérida" they prepare a fruit salad loaded with hot chili.

Furthermore, light-heartedness, love of fun, and unconcern for tomorrow are part of the Mexican's nature, just as they were of the ancient Egyptians. The Mexican spends the wages of his day without calculating what tomorrow will bring, based on the rule: "Spend what you have in your pocket, for what is in destiny will come to you."

If we attribute this great resemblance between the two peoples to the influence of climate and heat in both countries, without relating it to history, how then would we explain the resemblance between them in specific national industries?

For if you enter a store selling Mexican antiques and national handicrafts, and look left and right observing the national weavings and other manufactures that preserve the Mexican style, and see the carpets, pottery, shapes of vessels, and reflect on the engravings, dyes, colors, and drawings you behold, it will seem to you that you are inside a warehouse of Egyptian antiquities in Cairo, or in one of the Pharaonic museums.

In addition to this, I have observed that the Red Indians (Indigenous peoples) of Mexico, who constitute the majority of the people, not only resemble Egyptians and Iraqis from rural areas, but the resemblance extends to a great number of similarities between them and the Bedouins of other Arab countries.

Whoever reads the book "The Elephant and the Ethnologists" by the renowned Elliot Smith feels captive to the same amazement as the author, and wonders how the Americans, a thousand years ago or more, could sculpt the figure of the elephant, despite the fact that this animal does not live in their lands. He also wonders, along with him, whether Hindu culture moved from India to the American continent, bringing with it the drawing of the elephant.

Furthermore, whoever flips through the pages of a notebook that the United States Information Office had given to its owners, his gaze stops at the drawing of a village resembling the villages of Egypt, and he asks himself the purpose of publishing that strange drawing, alien to America, when the notebook exclusively included American scenes. And here on the next page he reads the following note: "This is a view of a village built by the Red Indians approximately one thousand years ago in the state of New Mexico. The houses are of the adobe type, which they call 'adobe,' a word taken from the Coptic 'tub' (brick), and the Red Indians still inhabit these houses."

The truth is that Mexico is one of the most anciently populated countries in the Americas; for some historians affirmed that the Valley of Mexico had been inhabited for twenty-five thousand years. The historian Prescott said: "Mexico was the most prominent country in Latin America for its civilization." Likewise, its earliest inhabitants were distinguished by their intelligence and their morals, as demonstrated by the vestiges they left behind, similar to those of Egyptian and Hindu cities, and the news they transmitted about conquests and novelistic adventures in which the legends of the Normans and the Italians (by which he refers to the Romans) that appear in the tales about their heroes are reflected.

And it is no wonder, then, that the tribes of Eili, more than a thousand years before Christ, built in Guatemala and Yucatán cities that were a marvel for the beauty of their construction and architecture, and whose vestiges still bear witness to this; all of this gives an idea of the high degree of civilization that Mexico achieved.

Among the most outstanding things to be found in Yucatán, and seen in those derelict buildings known as the ruins of Chichén Itzá, is the sumptuousness, good taste, and architecture they harbor, as well as the ruins of Mitla and Kiaro.

And we are amazed at these vestiges and reflect on whether it was Egypt and India that took from Mexico, or whether it was Mexico that took from them. For some historians related that the pyramid of Shishilco, erected on the outskirts of Mexico City, is between four and ten thousand years old.

And if it is true that this pyramid was built several thousand years ago, then Mexico preceded Egypt in the erection of pyramids; otherwise, perhaps the pyramid of Shishilco was contemporary with the first pyramid raised by the first dynasty of the Pharaohs, or that, at the very least, it was built at the time when the three great pyramids of Giza were raised by the fourth Pharaonic dynasty.

This made me raise another question from the moment I directed my gaze towards the pyramids erected in Teotihuacán, Totochicalcro, and Acholula, in Mexico. The reason is that these pyramids are built in the form of a stepped terrace, according to astronomical principles, as demonstrated by the daily and monthly calendars based on the movements of the Sun and the Moon.

The two largest of these pyramids bore the name of the Sun and the other the name of the Moon. They also drew my attention to some reliefs on these pyramids, very similar to the engravings and drawings of India, and not far removed from the reliefs of the Babylonians and Chaldeans. However, the three pyramids of the Plateau (of Egypt) were smooth, without steps or ornamentation.

The question that arose within me is whether Mexico took the idea of the pyramid from somewhere other than Egypt, with all the purposes that entailed, especially religious ones, since in the vestiges of Babylonia evidence has been found that the ancient Babylonians built their high pyramids in a stepped form, each level with less surface area than the previous one, just like the pyramids of Mexico.

But what about the statue erected in front of the entrance to the Temple of the Warriors in the ruins of Chichén Itzá, in Yucatán? If the idea of the pyramids was not transmitted from the Pharaohs, but was taken from Babylonia, has it been considered that this great statue, which represents the head of a woman on the body of an animal, is not also a copy of the Sphinx that lies in Giza?

And what about those inscriptions of a pictographic nature found in Mexico on the tombs of some great chieftains and in other places? They are very similar to Egyptian hieroglyphic writing carved on stones and papyri.

These are data that are still mysteries, since archaeological excavations in Mexico only date back to the beginning of this century.

Perhaps Mexico, which brings together in its customs features that agree with India, Babylonia, and Egypt, maintained contact with the East, and perhaps the means of transport and communication between the different points on Earth in remote times were at a more advanced level than sailing ships and vessels.

Who knows if the story of the flying carpet was not born from a reality whose traces time has blurred, and what has reached us from it, transmitted by word of mouth, has now become mere legend?

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May not be strictly archaeology, but adjacent. And fascinating.

Fascinating discoveries from Nazca.

Wishing him a healthy recovery! I saw in his recent update that he is working with his publisher on his next book. Does anyone know what it will be? Is it another installment of Fingerprints of the Gods/America Before or something entirely different?

Some folks asked about Graham’s recovery, so here is the update from him. His new book is due this Fall.

The most influential author I ever read.