Before The Pharaohs
Egypt's Mysterious Prehistory
By Edward F. Malkowski
Bear & Company, December 2005

In the late nineteenth century, French explorer Augustus Le Plongeon traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula to study the ancient Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza. After years of research he concluded that the Maya and Egyptians were related and that civilization was far older the originally believed. He was dismissed as an academic heretic. A hundred years later...

• In 1991, with a research team led by John Anthony West, Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch ascertained that the Egyptian Sphinx was at least 7,000 years old, possibly older.
• In 1998, after many years of research, precision manufacturing expert Christopher Dunn determined that the function of Egypt's Great Pyramid was that of a power plant.
• In 2002, astrophysicist Dr. Thomas Brophy concluded that the mysterious megaliths of Nabta Playa in Egypt's western desert were a complex and sophisticated star map existing thousands of years before such knowledge should have ever existed.

Much of the past support for the existence of an earlier civilization before those of Egypt and Sumer has relied on esoteric traditions and mythic narrative. Using hard scientific evidence from the fields of archaeology, genetics, engineering, and geology, as well as sacred and religious texts, it is evident that these mythic narratives are based on actual events and that a highly sophisticated civilization did once exist prior to those of Egypt and Sumer. Tying its cataclysmic fall to the concurrent appearance and disappearance of Cro-Magnon man, Before the Pharaohs offers a compelling new view of humanity’s past.

Despite the wealth of evidence attesting to a high level of civilization in ancient Egypt, there is little to go on in deducing the events that spurred its creation. It is unlikely that Egyptian civilization suddenly erupt from a primitive hunter-gatherer society into a sophisticated, centralized state; yet historians have been hard pressed to explain what seems to have been an abrupt emergence of advanced social organization and technology. Some have argued that Egypt’s development was influenced by invasions by cultures from other regions. In this book, I hope to demonstrate that the emergence of pharaonic Egypt was a result of indigenous efforts.

In one sense, the remains of ancient Egypt can be compared to a crime scene that has gone unnoticed for years, weathered by the forces of nature, and those who witnessed its occasion have long since passed away. Since moving objects around can mask clues as to what happened, when police investigators arrive at a crime scene, they prefer that everything remain as it was when the offense occurred. They need as many clues as possible in their search for the perpetrator. In some cases there are plenty of clues; in others there are not, and the case may go unsolved for years and sometimes, unfortunately, indefinitely. If enough facts can be established through deduction, an explanation of all the evidence leads the sleuth to a theoretical conclusion as to “whodunit.” It serves as the basis for further investigation and, hopefully, apprehension of the person who committed the crime.

Investigating prehistory is not all that different from investigating a crime scene, but it takes place on a much broader scale. The greater the evidence, the greater the possibility that researchers can ascertain what happened when, and by whom. As do police investigators, archaeologists and other historical researchers prefer that the evidence discovered remain in situ—in its original place when discovered—and untouched by human hands. This reveals irrefutable facts that are essential for the formation of a viable theory.

However, in the formulation of theory, the interpretation of evidence may be problematic. Physical evidence and historical facts are often viewed with a certain bias. This bias is a set of assumptions an individual brings to the evaluation of evidence. For example, researchers who believe civilization has only recently achieved technical sophistication will tend to disregard any evidence to the contrary, sometimes no matter how strong. One way to work around this bias is to consider expert analysis from other disciplines.

It is with this multidisciplinary approach that includes astronomy, engineering, geology, dental anthropology, as well as insights from other historians I address the question of the origins of Egyptian civilization. It is not possible to include every single fact posited by every researcher—there are too many to include in one volume. Instead, we will explore artifacts, which include everything from skeletal remains to stone vases, temples, and other monuments, that are considered primary pieces of evidence. Among these are the pyramids of Egypt, especially the Great Pyramid, and the mysterious megaliths of Nabta Playa, which have been dated to approximately 5000 B.C. These are observable structures, facts that have been visited and revisited by researchers over the years. The relentless mystery is that as yet, no one, in my opinion, has explained the historical context that surrounds this seemingly anachronistic and anomalistic evidence in a satisfactory way. According to orthodox history, the technology associated with such structures could have never existed so long ago.

In science, without speculation there can be no hypothesis. And without a hypothesis to test or investigate, there can be no theories—all of which are subject to argument from various perspectives. Since scientists and researchers are human, science itself often takes on the dualistic nature of mankind. Opposite forces work together in a cooperative battle of ideas, a scientific yin and yang. With speculation come new ideas and theories, which are often viewed initially as the whims of the uninformed. But over time, new ideas with merit survive, are synthesized into the growing body of scientific knowledge, and often, much later, become a standard of thought in their own right.

It is my belief that sincere and dedicated researchers have found enough anomalies and anachronisms regarding the rise of Egyptian civilization to warrant a new interpretation of the evidence, and possibly a new history of mankind. As a whole their work is greater than the sum of their parts in painting a more thorough picture of Egypt’s prehistory, as you will discover in Before The Pharaohs.

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