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The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind (1996)

by Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval (Author)

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An historical and scientific study of the Great Sphinx of Egypt, using computer simulations of ancient skies and examining archaic rebirth texts, myths, and scriptures, to uncover what the authors call an "astronomical language," that reveal who and what the Sphinx really is.
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"Non sai Asclepio, che l'Egitto e' un'immagine del cielo? Oppure, per essere piu' precisi, che in Egitto tutte le operazioni dei poteri che governano e agiscono nel cielo sono state trasferite sulla terra che si trova al di sotto?" (p. 99)

"E io - disse Ermes - rendero' gli esseri umani intelligenti, conferiro' loro la saggezza e faro' conoscere loro la verita'. Non cessero' mai di trarre beneficio dalla vita degli esseri mortali; e poi colmero' ciascuno di benefici, quando la forza della natura che agisce in lui e' in armonia con il movimento delle stelle al di sopra". (p. 172)

- La nostra mente ha perso la sua acutezza, stentiamo a capire gli antichi. - Gregorio di Tours, VI sec. d.C.

Le stelle sbiadiscono come il ricordo nell'istante che precede l'alba. Il sole appare basso a est, dorato come un occhio aperto. Cio' che puo' essere nominato deve esistere. Cio' che viene nominato puo' essere scritto. Cio' che e' scritto deve essere ricordato. Cio' che e' ricordato vive. Nella terra d'Egitto va errando Osiride. (p. 345)

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  NewLibrary78 | Jul 22, 2023 |
Le tesi di Bauval e di Hancock sono note, affascinanti ed accattivanti. Sostengono che la sfinge esiste da migliaia di anni prima di quanto sostengono gli archeologi e che le piramidi non sono soltanto tombe di faraoni ma la ricostruzione sul terreno di una costellazione stellare.

Libro affascinante e piĆ¹ intriganti di un romanzo. ( )
  Maistrack | May 28, 2016 |
Not entertaining. ( )
  paperloverevolution | Mar 30, 2013 |
First, an explanation of my bias. I loved Zahi Hawass from his first appearances on Nat Geo, because he's so charismatic and he reminded me of my father. Like him, I hated von Daniken and those Ancient Aliens guys, in my case because they have so deficient a sense of the relation between claim and evidence that even if their claims were true I couldn't accept them, because they haven't really been argued. I'm reminded of trying to submit algebra homework with the right answers but no proofs.

Then, down with flu and napping through HuluPlus, I clicked on The Pyramid Code. Episode one, still skeptical. Episode two, socks knocked off. Remaining episodes, becoming skeptical again about some bits but moved to inquire further into others. Found one lecture by Bauval and one by Hancock, also on Hulu. Then, still bedridden, I ordered Laird Scranton's The Science of the Dogon for my Kindle. As soon as I could get up, I headed for the library and borrowed Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods and The Message of the Sphinx, co-authored by Hancock and Bauval.

There's a lot of astronomy in Message, more than even I needed, so to me it's a less breathtaking read than Fingerprints. But both writers present compelling--I mean that literally--evidence for their claims, enough evidence in fact to make orthodox archaeology look about as scientific as the Ancient Alien guys, to make it look less like a theory than like a belief system.

As for claims, Hancock and Bauval are restrained. If they believe in alien visitations, they're careful not to show it. But if you would like to consider the possibility of an antediluvian culture that got lost, here are some facts and arguments. ( )
  adeeba_zamaan | Mar 25, 2013 |
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'There is scarcely a person in the civilized world who is unfamiliar with the form and features of the great man-headed lion that guards the eastern approach to the Giza pyramids.' -Ahmed Fakhry, THE PYRAMIDS, 1961
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To the memory of my father Gaston Bauval who rests in the land of Egypt.- Robert G. Bauval
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To my friend, John Anthony West, for his twenty years of courageous work to prove the geological antiquity of the Sphinx, and for the vast implications of the evidence that he has put before the public. 'The truth is great and mighty,' as the ancient texts say. 'It hath never been broken since the time of Osiris.' - Graham Hancock
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An historical and scientific study of the Great Sphinx of Egypt, using computer simulations of ancient skies and examining archaic rebirth texts, myths, and scriptures, to uncover what the authors call an "astronomical language," that reveal who and what the Sphinx really is.

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Using sophisticated computer simulations of the ancient skies to crack the millennial code that the monuments transcribe, Bauval and Hancock set out a startling new theory concerning the Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures.
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