Our Cosmic Ancestors by Maurice Chatelain Page A

had chosen because of its simpler structure. The general idea was to find the historical archives and scientific data hidden by the ancient Egyptian priests. Since cosmic rays penetrate even in the deepest mines and go through lead shields, the search was expected to be easy. The detector was turned in different directions to take two million readings of cosmic ray intensity changes throughout the pyramid, and the readings, registered on magnetic tape, were fed into a computer for analysis.
    A modern computer installed in Cairo did the analyzing - and out came a lot of garbled nonsense. The cosmic rays were registered all right, but heavy interference from an unknown radiation source in the pyramid covered the cosmic rays with such great density that regular readings and interpretations were impossible. Not even the faces or edges could be distinguished and there was not a chance to find hidden chambers. it was a complete scientific failure.
    All the equipment was dismantled and checked out again and again, and it worked fine everywhere except inside the Kephren pyramid, no matter how hard they tried, Nobody could explain it; and finally, after several futile attempts to remedy the situation, Professor Alvarez gave up and returned to California to do something more useful and controllable.
    As impossible and improbable as it may seem, apparently the ancient Egyptians must have been capable of predicting the future and set up radiation barriers against us, impenetrable even to electronic scouting. It looks as if some space astronauts thousands of years ago had installed electromagnetic radiation sources in at least one of the pyramids or their vicinity just to prevent the electronic devices of later generations from discovering their hidden secrets.
    Another possibility, of course, is that the radiations, which many persons who spent time in pyramids or even near them claim to have felt physically, are from beacons radiating signals for astronauts in space. In any case, if indeed there is radiation, it will be possible sooner or later for us to detect it and to identify its source. For me

    it seems only a question of time, considering the crowds of archaeologists and other scientists from all around the world exploring the pyramids.
    The interest is immense just because these secrets seem to be so well guarded. The more valuable the treasure is, the better hidden it should be. Some believe these treasures will be a fortune in gold and diamonds, but it seems much more probable that what will be found some day will be hieroglyphs inscribed on gold plates containing the whole history of man, including the true secrets of our terrestrial nr astral past. And if that is so, the scientific and historical w)I• the records will far surpass that of the metal they are written on, even if the plates were made out of platinum.
    In the museum of Father Crespi in Cuenca, Ecuador, visitors can see a heavy, solid-gold plate covered with hieroglyphs not yet deciphered and this plate could contain some secrets. It seems that similar plates are still hidden in caves around Cuenca, but it is difficult to obtain reliable information about this treasure and may be better not to talk about it before seeing it.
    Legends tell us that when the Spaniards invaded their land, the Aztecs hid all their precious artifacts in caves and, as the story goes, the most valuable treasure consisted of fifty-two solid gold tablets engraved with all the history and science of the Aztec culture. It would be surprising if the Egyptians, whose land was invaded so many times by Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabs, would not have done a good job hiding their most precious treasures. Herodotus, the father of history himself, claimed that the Egyptian priests of Sais, in Lower Egypt, told him of a secret chamber lower than the level of the Nile River that would flood automatically if intruders tried to gain access to it.
    In 1837 a British civil engineer, John Perring, dug