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Know_files/FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS.pdf - D Ank Unlimited

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Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

immense quantities of gold and jewels they could now expect to find.<br />

Similarly—though perhaps for different reasons, Ma’mun must have been<br />

impatient to be the first into any chambers that lay ahead. It was reported<br />

that his primary motive in initiating this investigation had not been an<br />

ambition to increase his vast personal wealth but a desire to gain access<br />

to a storehouse of ancient wisdom and technology which he believed to<br />

lie buried within the monument. In this repository, according to age-old<br />

tradition, the pyramid builders had placed ‘instruments of iron and arms<br />

which rust not, and glasse which might be bended and yet not broken,<br />

and strange spells ...’ 9<br />

9 John Greaves, Pyramidographia, cited in Serpent in the Sky, p. 230.<br />

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