Dave L Wrote:
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> hi Martin.
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> This stems from Cayce rather than Vyse no?

Not sure what you mean here. The Cayce crowd tried to discredit the marks in a vague, handwaving way - exemplified in Pyramid Odyssey by William R. Fix and even in some early writings by Lehner - but it was left to Sitchin to denounce them as forgeries (a claim then adopted by the Cayce crowd, e.g. Jochmans).

In Sitchin’s scenario, it’s Vyse (or one of his assistants) who perpetrates the forgery. Of course, it has to be so, because the context and circumstances of the discovery preclude anyone else’s having done it (and so, on any fair assessment, provide a strong prima facie case for authenticity).

> I have never heard of this from 19th C texts -
> have you?

There’s not a hint of it.

M.