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Lost and Hidden Artifacts
DIR By: Orion
Date: February 12, 2018, 2:53 pm
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There are reports...well it can be read here-
[quote=David Childress]
In a private conversation with a well-known historical
researcher
(who shall remain nameless), I was told that a former
employee of
the Smithsonian, who was dismissed for defending the
view of
diffusionism in the Americas (i.e. the heresy that other
ancient
civilisations may have visited the shores of North and South
America
during the many millenia before Columbus), alleged
that the
Smithsonian at one time had actually taken a barge full of
unusual
artifacts out into the Atlantic and dumped them in the ocean.
[/quote]
Many of the names of monuments around the Grand Canyon are
Egyptian, which by itself is interesting. But coupled with
researchers who claim to have found Hieroglyphics and tombs in
the area...well it certainly is worth looking into. These are
some of the purported artifacts to have disappeared after being
in the supposed safe hands of the Smithsonian Museum.
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Re: Lost and Hidden Artifacts
DIR By: Orion
Date: February 12, 2018, 3:36 pm
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More from Childress...
--- Quote ---
> Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist and frequent
guest on
> Johnny Carson's TONIGHT SHOW in the 1960s (usually with an
exotic
> animal with a pangolin or a lemur), once related a curious
story
> about a letter he received regarding an engineer who was
stationed
> on the Aleutian island of Shemya during World War II.
While
> building an airstrip, his crew bulldozed a group of
hills and
> discovered under several sedimentary layers what appeared
to be
> human remains. The Alaskan mound was in fact a
graveyard of
> gigantic human remains, consisting of crania and long leg
bones.
>
> The crania measured from 22 to 24 inches from base to crown.
Since
> an adult skull normally measures about eight inches from
back to
> front, such a large crania would imply an immense size
for a
> normally proportioned human. Furthermore, every skull was
said to
> have been neatly trepanned (a process of cutting a hole in the
upper
> portion of the skull).
>
> In fact, the habit of flattening the skull of an infant and
forcing
> it to grow in an elongated shape was a practice used by
ancient
> Peruvians, the Mayas, and the Flathead Indians of Montana.
Sanderson
> tried to gather further proof, eventually receiving a letter
from
> another member of the unit who confirmed the report. The
letters
> both indicated that the Smithsonian Institution had
collected the
> remains, yet nothing else was heard. Sanderson seemed
convinced
> that the Smithsonian Institution had received the bizarre
relics,
> but wondered why they would not release the data. He asks,
"...is
> it that these people cannot face rewriting all the textbooks?"
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Re: Lost and Hidden Artifacts
DIR By: Orion
Date: February 12, 2018, 3:52 pm
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Early on Smithsonian curators and donors chose an ideology known
as "Isolationism", one that suggest there was no contact between
ancient cultures, that ancient man was indeed quite primitive.
"Diffusionism", to quote Childress again, is "a
school which believes that throughout history there has
been
widespread dispersion of culture and civilisation via
contact by
ship and major trade routes.
Call it professional arrogance, call it elitism, call it what it
is, over the years many anomalous artifacts and even entire
archaeological dig sites have simply disappeared from the
record, from the earth, supposed to have been kept safe by the
Smithsonian Institute. The Isolationist theory was/is so
strongly espoused that they may have gone so far as to destroy
evidence to the contrary.
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