DEEP DIVE: Smithsonian Cover-Up: Ancient Egyptians and Giants in the Grand Canyon
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Why Files
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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | In 1908, President Teddy Roosevelt wanted to make the Grand Canyon off-limits to Altimba and mining operations. |
| 0:37.0 | It would take 11 years, but Congress did finally designate the Grand Canyon in National Park, |
| 0:42.0 | sensing a final opportunity for adventure, explorer GE Concade took a boat down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. |
| 0:51.0 | The canyon was rich in minerals like gold, silver and copper, and Concade wanted to see what he could find before the area was closed off for good. |
| 0:59.0 | About 40 miles upriver from the El Tovar crystal canyon, Concade saw stains in the sediment formation about 2000 feet up. |
| 1:08.0 | He tied off the boat and got out to investigate. Concade couldn't find a trail, but after a short hike, he found something interesting covered in desert brush. |
| 1:19.0 | Hundreds of them, carved in sandstone, steps that wound their way up to a high shelf on the side of the canyon. |
| 1:25.0 | He followed the steps until he came across a cavern entrance, an entrance that was clearly man-made. |
| 1:31.0 | Concade entered the cavern and turned on his flashlight. On the walls, he saw writing. |
| 1:37.0 | It wasn't English, and it wasn't Native American. It was ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
| 1:43.0 | Concade lifted his flashlight and saw that the tunnel ran far into the distance. He didn't realize it at the time, but this was only the beginning. |
| 2:00.0 | When GE Concade tied off his small wooden boat to investigate the strange coloration of the rock wall, he was hoping to find clues that would lead him to a mineral deposit. |
| 2:09.0 | He wasn't expecting to find hieroglyphics. When Concade noticed chisel marks in the walls, he drew his pistol, turned on another light, and slowly walked deeper into the gloom. |
| 2:19.0 | He kept detailed notes of everything he saw. |
| 2:22.0 | The main passageway is about 12 feet wide, narrowing to 9 feet toward the farther end, about 57 feet from the entrance. |
| 2:31.0 | The first side passages branch off to the right and left, along which on both sides are a number of rooms about the size of ordinary living rooms of today. |
| 2:42.0 | Though some are 30 by 40 feet square, these are entered by oval-shaped doors and are ventilated by round air spaces through the walls into the passages. |
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