Joseph P Farrell – I knew when M.D. sent this story that I’d be blogging about it.

It seems there may once have been a fourth pyramid at Giza, which was dismantled in the 18th century to help build Cairo:

Egypt breakthrough: ‘Lost fourth Pyramid of Giza FOUND’ after the remarkable discovery

In the article, reference is made to an 18th century work citing the existence of a fourth major pyramid at Giza, though much smaller than the other three major pyramids:

But the fourth pyramid once stood on the west of the Menkaure Pyramid, which was later destroyed to build the Cairo city according to Frederik Ludvig Nord’s account, in 1737.

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“I think it is certainly possible, but what happened to it? Well, some authors have suggested that it was dismantled in the 1700s, and the stone used for building the nearby city of Cairo.

“According to research, there is evidence of a pyramid being dismantled in 1759 and took 10 months.

“This pyramid would have been quite different from the others, around 100 feet smaller than the others and apparently had a cube on top, which I would guess was for a statue.” Most experts tend to dismiss the notion of a fourth pyramid, suggesting Nordon mistook one of the so-called “satellite” pyramids of Menakure as a fourth Pyramid. But, this contradicts his account, which describes the pyramid as entirely different from the others.

In his book “Voyage d’Egypte et de Nubie” (Travels in Egypt and Nubia), Norden describes the mysterious pyramid as being made of “stone more black than the common granite.” Interestingly, the description and illustrations of Norden are of superb quality, and they position the fourth, black pyramid at some distance from the three Pyramids of Giza. He also accounts for seven, possibly eight, smaller pyramids in the Giza Plateau.

So exactly where might this now-missing pyramid have been located?

If one scrolls to the very bottom of the article, one sees a link to a video, and in that link, clearly pictured, is a depiction of what this “black” pyramid might have looked like (on the right hand of the linked video screen) and it’s possible location (on the left side of the linked video screen).

The article makes clear the reasons that this location is the suspected location: the “causeway” leading to its location. If one looks at that left side of the linked video once again, one clearly sees the “causeways” that lead to the other three major pyramids of the compound. By parity of reasoning, if there once was a fourth “black” pyramid at the compound, then it stands to reason that it was located somewhere close to the end of that fourth causeway on the compound:

“The Wall of the Crow, if extended, leads to nothing of note, but that would only be true if you are unaware of Norden’s description of a lost fourth pyramid.” Each of the three pyramids of Giza has a long causeway leading to where the River Nile once extended. Sibson’s description appears to reveal a fourth, leading to the suspected location of another pyramid.

He added: “What I’ve discovered is the Wall of the Crow would lead directly to this small patch of land that I’ve already identified as the best possible location for the fourth pyramid based on the topography and Norden’s description.

This causeway, incidentally, Sibson believes to be older than the pyramids themselves:

“The Wall of the Crow, if extended, leads to nothing of note, but that would only be true if you are unaware of Norden’s description of a lost fourth pyramid.” Each of the three pyramids of Giza has a long causeway leading to where the River Nile once extended. Sibson’s description appears to reveal a fourth, leading to the suspected location of another pyramid.

He added: “What I’ve discovered is the Wall of the Crow would lead directly to this small patch of land that I’ve already identified as the best possible location for the fourth pyramid based on the topography and Norden’s description.

So why do I find this to be intriguing?

Well first of all, the location of the “black” pyramid, if Sibson is correct, would throw some current theories in alternative research into a cocked hat. One of these theories – one with which this author himself has indulged – is that the compound is an example of an astronomical/astrological “as above, so below” principle of architecture.

In this case, the “as above” component is thought to be the three stars in the belt of the constellation Orion, and the three main pyramids are laid out in more or less a similar fashion. The reasoning here is not without its own Egyptian reference, since the constellation was thought to be the astrological version of Osiris, and hence the compound was tied to the whole Osirian myth in many people’s speculations.

But a fourth pyramid would seem to throw all of this speculation into a cocked hat, unless of course one wanted to entertain the far out idea that there is a “fourth star” in the Orion constellation that we don’t know about, which hasn’t been discovered yet!

If that sounds outlandish, it is. Except there’s the matter of the color of the pyramid: Black. Many commentators and alternative researchers have commented on the possible astrological and astronomical significance of the difference colors of the other three main pyramids at Giza.

While I’m skeptical of many of these theories, is is true that Menkaure’s casing stones are of different color than those of its interior. What this might or might not symbolize remains moot, as does the alleged black color of the fourth pyramid. But the color black does suggest something hidden, or unknown.

Secondly, if there was a fourth pyramid, then once again we might be confronted with evidence that the Giza compound’s plan was laid out long ago, but completed over an even longer period of time, which is essentially the hypothesis of Alan Alford, and one which I find congenial.

Alford speculates that the compound has three phases, the first two of which predated dynastic Egypt by thousands of years and comprising the Sphinx, the “valley temples”, the causeways, and the two largest  pyramids. Mankaure, and the putative fourth pyramid presumably, alone came during an “Egyptian” phase.

In any case, I do not think this discovery invalidates the “machine” hypothesis of the Great Pyramid as propounded by Christopher Dunn (The Giza Powerplant) nor my own weapon hypothesis. But I do think it considerably complicates any view of the compound as a whole, especially if one adheres to the idea of a single plan, executed over thousands of years, for the compound.

See you on the flip side…

SF Source Giza Death Star Dec 2020