the memory of whose benefactions lingered after his death, and whose personality was eventually deified.

Is it accidental that the First Men of the Popol Vuh were remembered not only for studying `the round face of the earth' but for their contemplation of `the arch of heaven'? Wouldn’t this explain Egypt’s curious and paradoxical – but nonetheless enduring – obsession with ships in the desert (and references to what sounded like sophisticated ships in the Pyramid Texts, including one said to have been more than 2000 feet long)? Even below the great gateway there is no floor, and when there was water in front of it the cells were probably reached with a small boat. One plausible explanation is that the structure must have been built by Seti, as Frankfort proposed.This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENĒ’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

And if you want to take a class in pseudoarchaeology, Ethan Watrall has put his fall 2015 Michigan State University course online, with all course material freely available to anyone who's interested. For what was the Osireion if was not a huge, unsolved mystery that deserved closer scrutiny than it has received from the scholars whose job it is to look into these matters?

First up, Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization, reviewed by Ken Feder, an archaeologist famous for his anti-pseudoarchaeology book Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. Tiwanaku was a planned city which, according to UNESCO, reached its peak between 400 AD and 900 AD, [5] but is assigned an earlier date by Hancock. Auerbach points out that he personally has studied many of the skeletons Dewhurst mentions and "none had statures over six feet. In several reliefs of the Seti I Temple Osiris was depicted wearing the Atef crown, which seemed to stand about two feet high. A similar transverse chamber, also of limestone but no longer with an intact roof, lay immediately south of the great gateway.