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Hawkins’ studies also included analysis of the Nazca lines in Peru and the Amun Temple of Karnak in Egypt. In 1992, Hawkins gave an interview to Monte Leach of Share International in which he spoke of his research on crop circles and his discoveries that they contained ratios that related to musical major scales and contained undiscovered theorems of Euclidian geometry...
...carry as many as 85 passengers. A&K nonetheless kept a full staff of 60 on board, and the service and food were outstanding. The Sun Boat transported us peacefully upriver to docks from which we could travel easily to ancient monuments, including the majestic columns and obelisks of Karnak and the richly painted tombs of kings and queens burrowed into the desert. While waiting for the next monument to show up, we stretched out on the Sun Boat's deck, admiring the groves of date palms passing by, and exchanged salutes with farmers and fishermen. Any antipathy between Arabs...
...first this argument seems logical and demagogically appealing. A dialectical look, however, reveals its utter hypocrisy. The Great Hall is not the only example of a redundant monument to a defunct, "oppressive" culture. Another excellent example of such a work is the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, Egypt. While ancient Egypt is very much the culture du jour, those of us who appreciated this civilization long before it was fashionable to do so realize that, like turn-of-the-century America, it had many not-so admirable aspects. For 2,000 years, the Egyptian Pharaohs and High Priests poured...
...present day Egyptians, who--like modern Americans--bear few cultural or ethnic ties to their predecessors, were to decide to subdivide Karnak's great hall, it would undoubtedly spark international outrage, much as Harvard's destruction of the Union's Hall has. I would not be surprised if at these protests' forefront were the very same Humanities professors who seem to have had so much pleasure watching Harvard's Great Hall be destroyed...
...father Seti I had begun at Abydos was a shambles. The new pharaoh summoned his courtiers to hear his plans for completing the work. From there he went on to build dozens of monuments, including a temple to Osiris at Abydos, expansions of the temples at Luxor and Karnak and the cliff temples at Abu Simbel, which were rescued from waters rising behind the Aswan Dam in the 1960s...