Giza- What is the Egyptian government hiding?, page 1

Originally posted by scorchio123

when the shafts were opened there was two wooden artifacts found which could have been carbon dated, but they strangly dissappeared

Here is some information about the aforementioned wooden artifact(s)

"...the Dixons found three small relics in the shafts. These objects - a rough stone sphere, a small two-pronged hook made out of some form of metal, and a fine piece of cedar wood some 12 centimetres long with strange notches cut into it - were exported from Egypt in the summer of 1872 and arrived safely in England a few weeks later. During the next year or so they were commented upon in books, and even illustrated in scientific and popular magazines such as Nature and the London Geographic. Before the turn of the century, however, they had dissappeared."

To where did the wooden artifact dissapear?

"After doing some more digging we discovered what had happened...they had remained in the hands of the Dixon family for exactly a hundred years. Then, in 1972, Dixon's great-granddaughter had taken them along to the British Museum and had generously donated them to the Egyptian Antiquities Department...Thereafter the relics seemed simply to have been forgotten and only resurfaced in December 1993 because an Egyptologist named Dr Peter Shore happened to read the Independent's story about our search for them."

Sounds simple huh? But there has to be a conspiracy somewhere...right?

..."Rudolph Gantenbrink, the discoverer of the 'door' [within one of the 'shafts' located in the Queen's Chamber], had visited London and given a full lecture at the British Museum to a large group of Egyptologists - including Professor Edwards, Dr Vivian Davies and many others who knew of our search for the 'Dixon' relics. During the lecture, Gantenbrink showed and explained detailed video footage [which]...clearly showed, still lying on the floor of the northern shaft...a metallic hook, and an apparent baton of wood."

This pretty much sums up how I feel about the handeling of the only carbon-datable artifact ever found inside the Great Pyramid, especially by the British Museum's Egyptian Antiquities:

"To be completely honest we found it very difficult to accept that they really could just have been forgotten for twenty-one years [after they were donated] by the British Museum's Egyptian Antiquities Department."

quotes taken from The Message of the Sphinx co-written by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, pages 112, 115, 116