Category: Archaeological Cover-up

• Grand Canyon Egyptian Cover-up (Continued)

  The Grand Canyon Egyptian Cover-up (Continued) theory extends the 1909 Arizona Gazette story alleging a Smithsonian-linked discovery of Egyptian-style artifacts, mummies, and chambers in the Grand Canyon. In its continued form, the theory claims that the story was not simply denied but physically buried: caves were blasted, entrances sealed, and access zones restricted in order to suppress evidence of a pre-Columbian Old World civilization in North America. The historical basis is the famous 1909 newspaper article and the later persistence of monument names such as Isis Temple and Tower of Ra in the Grand Canyon’s mapped landscape. The theory’s strongest version insists that denial was followed by destruction.