Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Sadly, Egyptologists have a long history of
> describing rock incorrectly including the Rosetta
> Stone in the British Museum not that long ago.
>
> Piazzi Smyth was critical in his day, but he had
> several advantages over most:
>
> Firstly, he was able arrange chemical analyses in
> view of his prestige as Astronomer Royal for
> Scotland.
>
> Secondly, his brother was a professor of geology.
>
> Thirdly, he had taken an interest in geology, as I
> did when studying the subject at university.
>
> The Dixon relics can be attributed to Piazzi Smyth
> because he reasoned that there may be shafts in
> the so-called Queen's Chamber, so requested Dixon
> to investigate. From memory, I think it was a
> workman by the name of Bill Grundy who smashed
> open the stones covering the shafts.
>
> It seems likely that the relics had no official
> purpose, but perhaps whoever (accidentally?)
> dropped the (pounding?) ball was aware of tales
> that hidden in the pyramid was a symbolic design
> of one or more spheres (if not objects that were
> closer in shape to a sphere).
>
> We know workmen were bold enough to leave
> unofficial markings, so why not objects?
>
> It is unlikely that AE thought the sun and moon
> were 2D images.
>
> Mark

This the article from "Nature" describing how the objects were discovered:
[search.library.wisc.edu]

Bill Grundy is mentioned here: [robertbauval.co.uk]

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