To this very day, some people think that the whole thing did happen and that the Smithsonian covered it up. The most popular theory is that April 5th, 1909 was just a slow news day, and the reporters at the Arizona Gazette got creative in order to sell a few more newspapers. So what’s the scoop? More than likely, it was a made-up story. RELATED: Best Views Grand Canyon South Rim Yet, they had no record of any Egyptian artifacts ever being found anywhere in North or South America.Īnd finally, those Professors Jordan and Kincaid - or whoever they claimed to be, did NOT even work for the Smithsonian.
Even in those days, museum professionals kept very careful records of every single artifact they received. Two, the Smithsonian had no record of receiving any artifacts from an excavation at the Grand Canyon. For such a historical breakthrough, you’d think that there would be at least one photo, right? There were three main problems with the article.įirst, it didn’t have any photographs of the artifacts. Needless to say, there might've been a few discrepancies in that story. Historians believed the first people to settle at the Grand Canyon were the Ancient Puebloans, but these artifacts would mean the first settlers were actually Egyptian. So, a discovery like that would have completely changed history. Also, how did the Egyptians even get to North America back then? The archeologists - Professors Jordan and Kincaid - stated that they found hundreds of Egyptian artifacts in those tunnels that dated back to the era of the ancient Egyptian king Ramses, somewhere around 1250 BC.
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According to the article, two archeologists from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC discovered a series of hidden tunnels under the Marble Canyon region. On April 5th, 1909, the Arizona Gazette newspaper ran a story about a strange discovery at the Grand Canyon. One of our favorite Grand Canyon mysteries is the great Hoax of 1909. We here at Shaka Guide really enjoy a good mystery story.
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