A gentleman and a scholar.

 I've never been tempted by the shisha experience, I like to keep my lungs clear for smoking cigarettes!

A cup of coffee was tempting though and besides, I'd come all this way to talk to people that I would otherwise never have met.

With this in mind I sat down with my new friend Rubi, I've changed his name at his request, lit a Marlboro and chuckled to myself as he handed over less than a fifth as much EGP as I would have been charged as a tourist. Fair play. Not unique to Egypt!

I watched as our waiter poured piping hot coffee from a dallah, a traditional Egyptian coffee pot, and brought Rubi a mint tea, or as he translated, shai bin naenae, added sugar and was about to stir when Rubii told me to wait. He filled the cap of a bottle of water, brought automatically when you order a hot drink, and carefully poured the water into my coffee.

This he explained would prevent the granules of ground coffee from floating to the top of the cup.

I’m not certain of the physics involved but it works.

No more chewing coffee for me!

“What brings you to my country?"asked Rubi and I began my well practiced explanation of what I was doing and for some reason, this time I added that I did not agree with the mainstream explanation of the age of the Pyramids at Giza.

This little snippet caused a smile to spread over Rubi’s face as he leaned back in  his chair and asked me how old I thought they were.

I started out by discussing the evidence that the erosion on the Spynx is now thought to have been caused by water, not the wind and that the most recent  time that there was sufficient rainfall and localised flooding in that area was around 23'000 - 26’000 years ago. Rubi nodded and then said something I was not expecting!

“Ask anyone in these streets and they will tell you that the Pyramids are around 200’000 years old!”

Wow!

Far from being ridiculed, Rubi was adamant that I was correct in rejecting the official timeline. 200’000 years though? My first thoughts were of the Annunaki. An advanced race with the technical ability to master space travel, the Annunaki have been credited with the construction of the Giza complex by multiple researchers but I didn't want to influence Rubi’s answer in any way.

Instead I asked Rubi how he came by this knowledge and this was the key to unlocking a wealth of knowledge, wisdom and also, into the tactics employed by the mainstream Egyptian authorities in silencing any dissent or alternative narrative.

Rubi began by explaining that he had, for many years, been a lecturer in Cairo’s famous and influential Al-Azhar University. Founded in 970 AD on the site of a mosque of the same name, Al-Azhar is the oldest degree granting university in the world and I was thrilled and grateful to have the opportunity to ask questions of a bona fide subject matter expert!

“You know that no Pharaoh has ever been found in a Pyramid, yes?”

Rubi’s question was clearly rhetorical so in answer, I held out my hands and shrugged my shoulders in a gesture recognised world wide as meaning, I know! (Think Monica from friends).

He began his story by telling me how, 6 years ago, he had been called into a faculty meeting

unlike any he had attended previously.

In this meeting, attended by a group of officials from the Ministry of Antiquities, Rubi and his colleagues were told that a new syllabus was being introduced across Egyptian studies. As a result of this correction, lecturers were no longer permitted to teach the more esoteric elements of Egyptian and Islamic history. 

The ancient tales of the Neteru, Egypt's version of the Sumrian Annunaki were no longer to be taught. As far as the ministry and therefore the University were concerned. The Pyramids dated from around 2580 - 2560 BCE. 

In other words. They were going mainstream.

He went on to tell me how, the following Monday, he and his fellow lecturers were shocked to find government officials waiting in their classrooms. Clearly meant as a threat to any academics who intended to ignore the latest warnings.

Rubi ignored the warning.

He continued to teach what he believed to be the truth, what the University had, for thousands of years, considered to be the truth.  

A group of concerned lecturers met outside of work that evening and decided that they would explain to the students that the syllabus was being changed and open the floor for them to discuss. Rubi kicked off the discussion in his class by informing his 4th postgraduate students that, due to advice from the ministry of antiquities, damage to the Sphinx's nose was now being blamed on Napoleon!

I remembered this batshit theory doing the rounds on social media some years ago and it having been the one point that mainstream and independent Egyptologists all agreed on.

What a crock of shit. My words, not Rubi’s.

Unbelievably, I heard official tourist guides repeating this falsehood to a group of Chinese students who visited the site on the same day as I did! 

I managed to bite my tongue.

A group of French tourists didn't bite their tongues. Not at all.

The guide immediately moved his group on.

No more Sphinx for them!

As Rubi explained, it had ultimately been this and the insistence that the Pyramids had suddenly become a relatively recent phenomena that led to his students, and many others, staging a walk out.

It was this walk out that led to the feared Mukhabarat or secret police barging into Rubi’s apartment a few nights later and arresting him in front of his terrified wife and children.

Thirteen weeks later, Rubi was released and informed that his employment with the University had been terminated.

Since then he had been arrested and released on multiple occasions and was, he told me, constantly being harassed by operatives of the GIS, general intelligence service.

He had courageously continued to teach some of his students from Mosques and private houses up to the age of 75. At which point his wife, fearing for his safety, had convinced him that it was time for him to retire.

As Rubi ordered another round of coffee and tea, he was adamant that as his guest I would not be paying, a black, unmarked SUV stopped directly opposite where our table. Rubi nodded towards them somberly and advised me to ignore them.

He also joked that as I had informed immigration that I was a journalist, they might be there to intimidate me.

He was the first Egyptian to warn me about telling people that I was a journalist;

“The streets of Egypt have eyes and ears that you do not see” may sound melodramatic but, as I discovered in Cairo, was a valid warning!

Age and the way it helps shape our concept of what is important had enabled Rubi to view the constant intimidation with a wry humour and the veracity of his warning would soon become all too apparent to me.

So what was it that had caused a respected and experienced University lecturer to become an enemy of the state?

What were these terrible secrets that the Egyptian authorities were so keen to keep hidden?

It was the timeline! That's all.

Rubi’s version of the history of Egypt, remember this had been taught as a legitimate, alternative theory for decades, contradicted the version that the state was now promoting.

Essentially, any notion that the Pyramids could in fact, predate the Sumarian civilisation became, seemingly overnight, taboo.

The same, mainstream hysteria that greets any attempt to question, deviate from or even produce data that proves the mainstream version of early human history to be false, is seen at ancient megalithic sites all around the planet.

The most obvious example is the attempt, by mainstream academia, to ignore Klaus Schmidt’s astonishing findings at Gobekli Tepe. 

Even today, years after mainstream geologists proved that the enigmatic site, high in the mountains between Turkey and Syria, was occupied in its present form 11500 years ago, some mainstream historians continue to reject the findings of modern science. They don't offer an evidence backed counter explanation, in fact they use a technique that, in my opinion, is always a clear sign of a professional debunker, they instead focus on repeating the mainstream narrative and rarely, if ever, produce any, independently verified evidence or data to support this theory.

In Egypt’s case, there is no evidence to support the mainstream version. It's all theoretical

Even when the alternative data is irrefutable and mainstream is forced to begrudgingly conclude, (I've seen that phrase used in research papers reviews!) that the official narrative is incorrect, school syllabuses don't get updated for years, if at all.

I wonder how many school children are now being taught that, far from as we told, the Amazon has not been under dense canopy for 4 million years and that evidence has been found showing that  beneath the canopy there is an intricate, man made series of roads and cities that could have easily housed a million people!

The alternative story of ancient Egypt that Rubi told began around 200 - 220 thousand years ago and revolves around a group of Gods who lived and walked on Earth first as their true self and later in their human embodiment as Pharaohs.

In this version of events, handed down over millennia, Humans were created using the blood or tears of Ra and were engineered by Khnum using a machine described as a potter's wheel.

This myth matches perfectly with the July 2000 publication in the prestigious, mainstream science journal, Nature, of research carried out by the University of Harvard, medical school. The research was the analysis of bone marrow and associated DNA, removed from the toe of an almost perfectly preserved Neanderthal child, discovered in 1987.

The concluding sentence is possibly the most significant since Darwin first penned his theory.  They concluded that;

‘The results suggest that modern human was not, in fact, descended from Neanderthals’

(Nature, vol. 404 (March 30, 2000) pg.490).

This peer reviewed and published, therefore accepted as accurate, research proved that human beings, AMH, did not evolve from Neanderthals. Did not evolve from the likes of Homo Erectus, Homo Australian, Homo Africana or any other hominids discovered anywhere on the planet. And definitely not from apes!

Subsequent research based on an analysis of the overlap of our Chromosomes, taken from our DNA and that of Neanderthal man shows that we can not have evolved from them. Nature Journal, vol 444, July 2006.

Perhaps even more significant, is the research published by Yale university where they showed that around 220 '00 years ago an alteration was made to our DNA. The paper makes it clear that this is not a mutation and can only be the result of intervention by a third party. 

Rubi told me how the ancient texts told how the original texts tell how the Gods used frequency manipulation to perform highly advanced technological processes which included the shaping of and, in the case of the Pyramids, elevation to a great height, massive blocks of granite, weighing as we now know up to a hundred tonnes!

I could see the passion in his eyes as he guided me through this alternative version of history. 

Also clear was the sorrow he felt when he told me how even The Quran, Islam’s most holy text, was not immune and although no one would dare to alter the word of God, Rubi had learnt from ex-colleagues at the University, that any mention of ancient tribes such as the Ād, was actively dissuaded. As was the fact that religion was practised in Egypt as early as 6000BC!  

When I expressed my belief that the reason mainstream historians went to such lengths to prevent their version of human origin story from being challenged was due to the reliance of the three major Judaic religions on a start date of roughly 6000 years ago, Rubi smiled and said, “the secret police will come for you”.

It's also worth noting that the Great Pyramid is only thought to be 4500 years old because of carbon dating done on items found inside it. So if I left a hamburger at Stonehenge today and someone dated it a thousand years from now, they would conclude that the stone circle must have been built in 2025? 

That's also the reason Khufo is considered to have built the Pyramid. They found his name written on the walls and immediately decided that he must have built it. The timing of his reign fits nicely into the preferred timeline.

At one point we were taught that Khufu had been buried in the sarcophagus in the so-called King's chamber of the great Pyramid.

When the sarcophagus was found to be empty we were told the tomb raiders had stolen it.

When extensive forensic tests showed that there was zero human DNA to be found within the sarcophagus we weren't told anything.

Remember, nobody has ever been found to have been buried in a Pyramid. They aren't tombs. Check out the pictures I took in the Valley of the Kings to see the pharaohs in  their tombs here!

The mainstream narrative around ancient Egypt, when you look at the evidence, data and facts, falls apart like a well cooked leg of lamb.

I spent over 2 hours with Rubi and left feeling elated. I would no longer suffer from chewing coffee granules, I had a list of museums, art galleries and places of interest to visit and I knew to be aware of the dangers faced by journalists in Egypt. The country sits in the top 10 of imprisoned and  missing journalists.

I found a fellow thinker and kindred soul in Rubi. We had coffee together again on another two or three mornings. Remembering his mock outrage whenever I tried to pay the bill still makes me smile.

I made a friend when I met Rubi.

He is  without question, a gentle man and a scholar!

Simunye! We are One.