Hullart.com Blog tagged 'The Sphinx'

The Lost Technology of Ancient Egypt - The Equipment

jim@hullart.com — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:00:00 +0100

If we go looking for the technology how big might it be and what shape should it take? We can assume, based on the level of perfection and similarity from one object to the next, that it must have been stationary equipment. If that is so then how big would we have expected it to be? Today the size of the equipment might be as much as 50 to 100 times the size of the object being machined. If that is true then we should be able to make a prediction on the outside limits and cre [...]

Technologies of Ancient Egypt - Where did they all go?

jim@hullart.com — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:00:00 +0100

Everyone puts their tools away when finished and I don't think that ancient Egyptians were any different. They would have put them away somewhere that they could have been protected from the elements. That means underground or in some above ground protected space. Since we have done a pretty good job above ground we should try our hand at the tunnels. We need to have a thorough and complete investigation into the tunnel system with a complete mapping project. We need a focus o [...]

Technologies of Ancient Egypt - Beneath the Surface

jim@hullart.com — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:00:00 +0100

On a recent tour of Egypt our guide, who was an archaeologist told us that there was more under the surface than had been uncvered to date. As they have no place to put all of the 'stuff' they simply cover it back up and make note of its location. Could some remenants or suggestions of advanced technology have already been uncovered and not recognized?

Moving on to the tunnels and looking at them as a possible resting place for advanced technology how w [...]

Ancient Egypt and Lost Techologies - The Tunnels

jim@hullart.com — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:00:00 +0100

When one thinks about underground networks of tunnels the first question to come to mind is the purpose. Could these lead to and from warehouse areas where one might find proof of the idea that they used more advanced tool technology to construct their artifacts. Is so what is the best way to proceed to pursue this possibility? Since we do not have the abiltiy to go on site and physicaly pursue it we must take a tangential approach to the process. The first one is to explore what has [...]

Technologies of Ancient Egypt II

jim@hullart.com — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:00:00 +0100

So which direction will I take to begin to take the next steps in pursuit of the idea that the Ancient Egyptians had advanced manufacutring technologies? There are may trails on which to embark. I have chosen the trail of searching for physical evidence of the tools. If in fact more advanced tools, machines and techology were used where did they all go? Has time merely sent them to the dust bin? My first stop on this trail will be to explore potential places where phy [...]

Technologies of Ancient Egypt

jim@hullart.com — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:00:00 +0100

A recent book by Christopher Dunn entitled, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt, has ushered in a new era of possiblities and exploration into the Egyptian past. Seeing the artifacts throught the eyes of a modern manufacturing expert brings up both new questions and possibliites in regards to the sophistication and knowledge of those that built the Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Temples. A new light is shed on a potential pathway to answsers to questions that have long eluded the [...]

The Ruins of Antiquity, the ruins of the Modern Age

jim@hullart.com — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:00:00 +0100

As a part of the Burning Forest series I am creating a series of paintings depicting ruins of old and a vision of what the ruins of today might look like sometime in the not to distant future. The ruins of old in most cases reflect great architecture, character and the great materials used in construction. The ruins are as compelling as tghe original structures ( In some cases more compelling!). Of today's ruins I cannot say the same. In most cases I think they will look like [...]

Pyramids and the Power of Emptiness

jim@hullart.com — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:00:00 +0100

Lack of information, or emptiness, is one of the key precepts of Chinese aesthetics. It is the experience of having done the work of art that is important and not the work itself. Is that the case with the Pyramids? Was it more important to the builders to have done it than to have recorded the how and why? In the arts it is the undsaid that carries the energy through the piece. As Simon Leys relates in his book The Burning Forest,

" It should be observed [...]

The Mystery of Records and Purpose

jim@hullart.com — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:00:00 +0100

" Extant Egyptian records, whether written or pictorial, throw no light on the methods employed by the builders of the pyramids either in planning or in constructing their monumental works."

So says I.E.S. Edwards in his famous book The Pyramids or Egypt. Logically this makes no sense. But whatever information they used to construct the pyramids on the Giza Plateau must also have been quickly lost as the preceding contructions reveal a lack of the same sophistication [...]

Sensory Deprevation or Burial Chamber

jim@hullart.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:00:00 +0100

Having visited the Kings Chamber in the great pyramid I must admit that it first appears to be more of a sensory deprivation chamber than a place of burial. The Egyptian culture was focused on how the interior life manifested itself in outward actions. Therefore I would not be surprised if these chambers, which we know were used for initiation rights, were also used by the priests to help their royal counterparts reach a deeper level of inner being. A level were a [...]

Chambers Beneath the Sphinx

jim@hullart.com — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:00:00 +0100

Several years ago The Fox TV Network had a live show from the pyramids that exposed several new underground chambers underneath the Sphinx. As I recall in their explanation of the findings they focused on a large sarcophogus flanked by several statues of Annubis. They also pointed out several tunnels(now filled with debris) that radiated out under the Plateau. What struck me was the engineering necesary to hewn these chambers out of bedrock and to a depth of 2 to 4 stories. It also appeared t [...]

The Sphinx -- Purpose and Meaning

jim@hullart.com — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0100

To me the Sphinx, along with the Great Pyramid of Giza represents a single message. It is a message in stone that is concerned with the inner development of the human brain/ mind complex.

At the dawn of civilization our inner nature was changing with the emergence of a new and more dominant layer of mind. The emergence of this new layer represented an addition to the already present layer of instinctual mind. We still had our instincts but we were now self conscious.

Further we [...]