Category: Pseudoarchaeology

• The "Grand Canyon" Egyptian Colony

  This theory claimed that the Grand Canyon concealed evidence of an ancient Egyptian or otherwise Old World colony, discovered in 1909 and then covered up by the Smithsonian or federal authorities. It originated in a front-page Arizona Gazette story about a supposed underground complex containing mummies, hieroglyphs, and “Oriental” artifacts. Although later research found no evidence that the expedition, discoverers, or excavation were real, the story became one of the most durable American hidden-archaeology legends of the twentieth century.