The majority of these theories involve the pyramids, specifically the Great Pyramids at Giza, which are much like celebrities, becoming the focus of all manner of rumors and even outright lies. The internet is to them as the tabloids are to human celebrities, except they cannot avail themselves of a lawsuit to rectify the transgression. More often than not, there are also claims of government cover-up, involving Egyptologists, the Supreme Council of Antiquities or specifically its chairman, Zahi Hawass, in order to veil some secret, higher knowledge. I can remember one time him letting one such conspiracy buff investigate the bathroom in his office for a secret tunnel.
Year after year, we receive many emails about these various theories, which are often not particularly new. They have a tendency to cycle, being disproved, only to show up once again some years later. Many are based on smoke and slight of hand, ignoring various truths and a vast amount of scholarly research resulting in an extensive body of factual information. They go on and on, talking about the pyramids reflecting the circumference of the world or the hidden libraries of Atlantis, without paying much heed to information outside of their focus.
For example, many if not most of these theories concern a single monument, such as the Great Sphinx or the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, without much regard for their context within the Giza Plateau, the worker villages of those who constructed the pyramids, the hundred or so other Pyramids in Egypt or the many other extensive building projects in Egypt. For that matter, many of these theories completely ignore the ancient Egyptian religion as well. Professional Egyptologists have taken to calling the believers of such theories pyramidiots, and for good reason.
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