Luke Caverns
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
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And he was telling me, I think that that's where Khufu is buried. And I was like, oh, okay, really? So you actually think that he's still in the pyramid? And he was like, yeah, I think all the rest of it was a decoy. And I think that his son, who's able to continue his legacy, like permanently sealed him in that in that tomb. And I was like, that's that's fascinating.
And and I said I said, you know, there's other voids that they found, too. What do you think of those? And so we're standing on this felucca at 1 a.m. on the Nile and we're just, you know, shooting the shit. And he was like, he's like, I have something to show you. And he pulls out his phone. He was like, I cannot send to you, but I will show you.
For one second, he showed me a photo of the inside of a chamber that I hadn't seen before. And it hasn't been published yet. I'll let you know when it comes out. But it's burned into my mind. It's from the floor, shooting across the room. All you can see is two walls meeting each other and a roof. And I said, that's in the Great Pyramid? And he was like, And he wouldn't share it with me.
I didn't want to press him too much. That one stole his phone.
Shut up.
Well, you know, man, that's happening all over the world. Like this delay of information is all over the world. Do you remember the tunnels that came out or the – maybe it's in November, the headlines that – no. Yeah, it was in November. The headlines that came out about the tunnels that were found under Cusco in Peru that connect to Sacsayhuaman and they go underneath the Cora Concha.
They knew about that a long time ago. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's documented. In fall of last year, I made friends with the head archaeologist at that site. And one early morning at like 4 a.m., he took me down inside part of the tunnels. Whoa. Yeah, I was in there before it all came out. And he took me into... So all these archaeologists, they live on site. And these are all Inca people.
So they believe that they're studying their ancestral heritage. These are really good people. And I'm in their shoddy little home that's on the archaeological site. I mean, they probably make no money. But they're just so passionate about this. And they feel like they're doing something that's one of the most important things anybody in the world is doing. And have you been to Peru? No.
When you go to Cusco, man, the Sacred Valley, it has something there that not even Egypt has. I don't know how to explain it. Really? It's a sacred place. The Sacred Valley is exactly right. It's a magical kind of place. Machu Picchu, you should book two days when you go because you're going to get rained on on one of the days.
But you're out there on this 7,800-foot mountaintop, and it's so steep you cannot see the bottom when you're looking over the side of the city. And you're just in this sacred place in the middle of the Amazon up in the mountains, and it's just a different place, man. It has a type of charm that not even Egypt has. Egypt, you're going to be blown away by the structures.
You're going to be blown away by the pyramids and the temples. But this is something else. It has an otherworldly, like you feel like you're on some kind of like Star Wars planet when you're there. It's fascinating. Because of the environment? Yeah, it's like the environment. You know, I wondered if it was, when you're in Cusco, you're at 11,500 foot elevation.
And I wondered if I was like missing oxygen to my brain. And I was like, whoa, this place is awesome. But no, it really is amazing. And the people are so nice. And so anyways, it was a trip. So what was that? I think it's I think it was very similar to Alexandria's library. I think it was a place of study where people are studying the studying the stars.
Archaeoastronomy is like is like the next frontier of archaeology. It's the way that people it's the way that ancient people are interacting with the night sky and what they know about the cosmos. You know, the Maya were calculating like millions of years into the future and millions of years into the past. And they had this numerology system that's just amazing.
But anyway, so I'm at Sacsayhuaman, and they take me into this back room, and they show me all these bodies that they pulled out of the tunnels. And it was these – they thought that they were like sacred guardians of – whatever is inside of this tunnel. And these are all buried at Sacs de Beaumont. So there's like skulls everywhere. There's boxes and all these bones.
There was like an obsidian mirror with like a little stick on it, a bunch of gold artifacts in this room. It was just boxes upon boxes upon boxes upon boxes. And I haven't seen any of this stuff published yet. So this is how much of a delay there is on archaeology. What is the delay in that stuff?
Yeah, it's what I think it is, is, well, you kind of have I would I would say it's a mix of a lot of different things. Let's say let's say the most non malicious side is that these countries are totally dependent upon tourism and they want to prepare like a media, you know, like a big media buzz to drive tourism. So they want to do it at the right time of the year.
And then it'll inspire people to book their trip down to the Sacred Valley. It's a money-making machine, right? It's their biggest draw to come and see this part of the world.
Yeah, yeah. They just want to hold it off to like the right part of the year. This is something I've heard in Peru. This is something I've heard in Egypt. Do you remember the tomb of Thutmose II that was just discovered recently? I heard about that. So let me think that that came out two or three months ago. And when I was there in October, I had heard that it was found.
So these things are happening way, way in advance. Now, the other side is there's sort of this Zahiwas effect, like Ed Barnhart, my professor and mentor, he wanted to study in Peru whether or not the Inca or ancient Peruvians are fusing these andesite stones together. So you've seen how the stones fit together in the same way that they do at the Valley Temple in Egypt, the red granite. Yeah.
So they're using this gray andesite, which is sometimes the andesite is harder than the granite in Egypt. And they're morphing these stones together at impossible angles. I'm sure you've seen the 12-sided stone, and maybe you've seen the scoop marks on the side of the stone where it looks like the outside of the stone was softened at one point, and you could scrape a piece off.
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