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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 />

years—perhaps far more—the gabled ceiling had taken the immense<br />

weight of the second largest stone building in the world.<br />

I looked slowly around the room, which reflected a yellowish-white<br />

radiance back at me. Quarried directly out of the living bedrock, its walls<br />

were not at all smoothly finished, as one might have expected, but were<br />

noticeably rough and irregular. The floor too was peculiar: of split-level<br />

design with a step about a foot deep separating its eastern and western<br />

halves. The supposed sarcophagus of Khafre lay near the western wall,<br />

embedded in the floor. Measuring just over six feet in length, quite<br />

shallow, and somewhat narrow to have contained the wrapped and<br />

embalmed mummy of a noble pharaoh, its smooth red granite sides<br />

reached to about knee height.<br />

As I gazed into its dark interior, it seemed to gape like the doorway to<br />

another dimension.<br />

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