In the past decade some strange and unexpected discoveries have been made around the world. Some of the more inexplicable finds, especially if they challenge the dominant paradigm, have yet to see the full light of day. The Burrows Cave saga is one of these. It is the story of a very unusual find, an archeological �time-capsule� of rock crypts containing mummified bodies, life size statues and over three thousand carved stones of mixed cultural origin.

The artifacts date to an early AD time period and seem to predominately relate to ancient Egypt. Similar to anomalous discoveries elsewhere, the find has been seriously challenged by the academic community, with cries of �hoax� and �fraud�. Yet, despite the claims of �impossible�, translations from the cache are beginning to unravel a hidden side of history.

The bizarre collection was found in a remote cave system in the American State of Illinois. The cavers who made the discovery encountered a derisive response from the first academic experts they approached, experiencing a lot of difficulty finding necessary specialists to help them document and identify the artifacts. There were problems of site security, disappearing artifacts, as well as people bending data to suit their personal agendas. As the site researcher Fred Rydholm remarks: �For this kind of research you have to be thick-skinned, brave or crazy!� It�s one thing finding these things, its quite another to explain them.

In the United States the saga of �Burrows Cave� has been going on for well over a decade. Over three thousand rock fragments, engraved with a variety of ancient drawings, hieroglyphs and script, were presented to the world by Russell Burrows in 1982, who discovered them in a cave system in Southern Illinois. The story of the cave and its contents is so strange, that it�s little wonder it has met strong skepticism. Recently deciphered for the first time, the stone tablets tell such a wild tale that it will require quite a turn around to accepted history.

I was stunned into disbelief when I first laid eyes on the Burrows Cave evidence. This is no straight forward set of hieroglyphs but, an inexplicable display of several cultures, a huge library preserved on stone tablets, collected together and sealed in a cave sometime around the first millennium.

The first photographs of the artifacts were forwarded to me by Filip Coppens, who writes about world mysteries in Belgium. He had heard about my investigation of the anomalies surrounding the presumed hoax of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the NSW Hunter Valley. He was struck by certain odd similarities between the two finds and sent pictures of the carvings which depicted a wolf-headed god, similar to an �Anubis� carving photographed in the Hunter Valley.

Certainly, the Burrows Cave boasts a few forms of wolf and jackal-headed deities, from the classical Anubis to half human versions. One of the Burrows Cave examples is executed in bas-relief, with accompanying hieroglyphs, embossed on a gold plate. However, there is much more than wolf-headed deities, the carved tablets display an extraordinary cultural array. There is a hodgepodge mixture of images and cultural influences which make the artifacts very hard to explain. Even worse, some of the carvings seem amateurish or dimly remembered copies of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian sources. Whereas, others involve a high level of skill and obvious knowledge of ancient cosmology.

One of the images depicts a �wolfish� deity in priestly regalia, wearing a bishop-style hat decorated with a solar emblem. The deity has been identified as the god �So-Bek-Ra�, who is so pictured on a temple by the Nile. The figure stands, as the lone representative of an ancient priesthood, against an advancing enemy army. There are also many carved heads, mostly warrior profiles, wearing both Greek, Roman and Egyptian headgear. Curiously, there are even images of ancient Amer-Indians wearing feathers and facial designs, some showing clear Meso-American style head-dress. Records of ancient travellers?

Amongst them are many ancient mystical and sacred designs, as well as maps, pictures of ships and non-indigenous animals. Astonishingly, one of the carvings portrays the cloven-hooved god Pan, holding his pipes and consorting with a nymph. Another stone (as well as an ancient metal coin) excavated from the cave carry the bold image of an elephant underlined with Hebrew characters. Oddly, an artifact inscribed in exactly the same way was found on a pyramid-shaped stone in Ecuador some years earlier.

Some of the carvings are meticulously executed in full bas-relief, some completely carved into the shapes of animals and deities, while other tablets were etched to render the designs. Even a small collection of solid gold artifacts and coins have been excavated. More than just pictures, there are numerous tablets with coherent linear script carved on them. Examples and influences appear to range from Hebrew and Sumerian to Roman, Greek and Egyptian.

In my correspondence with Fred Rydholm, the best theory I could offer, was to speculate about a colony of resourceful pirates, who in some distant time, raided and collected the strange quasi-cultural cache of artifacts for themselves. Together with an associate Dr James Scherz, who helped in the study and documentation of the artifacts, Fred Rydholm found correlations between symbols on the Burrows Cave coins and coins produced by dynasties along the �Silk Road� between China and Rome, the most predominant being �Kushana� and �Satavahana�symbols.

( NOTE: The Kushanas once controlled a trade dynasty along the Silk Roads, uniting various ancient people�s in the days of the Romans. They disintegrated with the collapse of the Western part of the Roman Empire about AD 300. The Satavahana�s were a seafaring people who lived on the coast of the Indian Ocean and had large ships represented on their coins before they collapsed around 210-230 AD. This suggests the likely time period of early in the first millennium around or after 200 AD. )

Finally, Fred Rydholm was able to report a significant breakthrough with two young Florida researchers, Paul Schaffranke and Brian Hubbard, who were successful in deciphering some of the inscriptions. Schaffranke and Hubbard recognised them as being one of several ancient Etruscan alphabets which could be translated into �street Latin�, as used around the time of Christ. The two Florida men were able to translate stone tablets from the Burrows Cave that the great epigrapher, Dr. Barry Fell and others, had insisted were gibberish and could not be translated.

Mixed in amongst the Etruscan script there is also the added mystery of Hebrew and Egyptian stone tablets. These were also recently identified and are being translated by Dr. Arnold Murray of Arkansas and, Zena Halpern, a Hebrew scholar from New York. The Egyptian material is still being assessed. Over half a dozen professional archeologists and linguists have now examined the collection and have been definite in their support of the artifacts� authenticity. At last contact, the Burrow�s team had dug out and classified an astonishing four thousand stone tablets. Another breakthrough came, when a retired engineer Bill Kreisle, found several of the stones recorded accurate maps of the Mississippi River system as it appeared 2000 years ago. Another map stone shows a river on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain) with the ancient city of Cadiz near its mouth.

But, most astonishing of all, they have reported the discovery of several stone crypts, excavated from limestone deep in the cave system, containing a number of interred skeletons with jewellery, artifacts and statuary. The mystery people who left the cache of records are, apparently, themselves, buried there. The biggest continuing mystery of the discovery is, WHO carved all these message tablets and from whence came this hidden dynasty of bodies?

Fred Rydholm, who works with and writes, for the retiring Col. Burrows, reports in his recent correspondence : �Although I speak with caution, as it is still too early to say for sure, there are many indications that the bodies found in the crypts are the leaders of a colony of refugees from Ptolemaic Egypt, including a Jewish contingent from the Roman controlled Kingdom of Mauritania.

Dr Joseph Mahan, founder and longtime president of the Institute for the Study of American Cultures (ISAC), has examined the evidence from the new translations and presents this interesting scenario: �They were secretly sent to America in ships provided by the Mauritanian King Juba the Second and his wife Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Anthony. Included among the refugees were the Queen�s two brothers, who disappeared from Rome (and recorded history) in 17 AD, Ptolemy Philadelphus and Alexander Helios.� The graves of these people have been the object of a comprehensive historical search for the past two thousand years.

We appear to have an advanced and well funded group of priest/scholars who, with the ex-Royal families, escaped the Roman Christianisation of Egypt and set off into the unknown somewhere around 200-300 AD. The engraved maps and their collected storehouse of knowledge, shows a deliberate transplanting of culture, perhaps to escape the religious persecution of the Roman Invasion of Egypt and establish a remote colony which could preserve the ancient records. Indeed, Dr Joseph Mahan, an archeological anthropologist who made a close study of the cave artifacts, reveals a detailed cosmology and religious lore from the cave material which is remarkably similar to that which survived amongst the Indian tribes of the area.

The area of Southern Illinois and Indiana, where Russell Burrows stumbled into the limestone cave system, is richly endowed with the scattered evidence of several different early cultures which archeologists know too little about. There are log tombs, skeletons and artifacts from the Adena culture, which is believed to have developed around 500 BC and to have died out by 200 AD. There was the Hopewell culture, 100 BC to 350 AD. A mysterious culture concentrated along the Mississippi, known as the �Mississippian�, crystalised around 800 AD, and was thought to still be in existence when the Spaniards arrived.

Researcher, Joseph Mahan, points out, that archeologists have collected evidence for fifty years of an elaborate and uniform Earth/Sun religion, associated with the building of flat top
temple mounds, which spread out from the Mississippi in the later part of the first millennium. These pyramid-like mounds, which carried a permanent fire at the top, contained a variety of art, impressed on copper and stone, depicting animal-headed deities, crosses, swastikas, and people in ceremonial dress performing rituals. Examples of these mound sites are spread from Oklahoma, to Illinois, Alabama and Georgia.

The first archeologists to recognise the spread of this mound building style called it the �Southern Cult�. Mahan says �Mississippian� is believed to have been introduced by a priestly organisation, the members of which re-introduced the cultivation of maize to the area. There is indisputable evidence, in the written and spoken form, of the former tribal languages of the area that a North African tongue, similar to Libyan, was desseminated by this �Southern Cult�.

Could the Burrows Cave, indeed, be the lost library and resting place of the founders of this mysterious culture? Founders, the inscribed tablets puport to be, the ex-Egyptian Royal family escaping the sacking of ancient Egypt early in the first millennium.

PAUL WHITE c 1997

With thanks to , Fred Rydholm, Filip Coppens, and those who assisted to help understand these discoveries. Paul White�s �Ancient Secrets� video series is available through Mail Order. Paul White can be contacted through this web site.

The Matrix Key By Paul White

Since the declassification of the new ground-penetrating radar 2
years ago, the most staggering data has emerged of complex and labyrinthine
underground systems in various parts of the world. At places like
Guatemala in the South Americas, tunnels have been mapped under the Mayan
pyramid complex at Tikal, which extend a full 800 kilometers to the 
opposite side
of the country.
Investigators remarked, it was possible to understand how half a
million Mayan Indians escaped the decimation of their culture. In similar
fashion, the SIRA radar was deployed in Egypt as early as 1978, mapping an
extraordinary subterranean complex beneath the Egyptian pyramids.
Arrangements made with President Sadat of Egypt, resulted in three decades
of top secret excavations to penetrate the system.
At a recent meeting in Australia, one of the key scientists on
the Giza project, Dr. Jim Hurtak, showed film footage of work in progress
called, CHAMBERS OF THE DEEP, due to be released at the end of the century.
The film reveals the discovery of a vast megalithic metropolis, 15,000
years old, reaching several levels below the Giza plateau.
While the rest of the Nu-Age speculates about a hidden chamber
under the left paw of the Sphinx, the legendary "City Of The Gods", lays 
sprawled
beneath. Complete with hydraulic underground waterways, the film shows
massive chambers, the proportions of our largest cathedrals, with enormous
statues, the size of the Valley of the Nile, carved in-situ. Researchers,
risking their lives with lights and cameras, carefully negotiated rubber
dinghies across subterranean rivers and kilometer-wide lakes, to penetrate
sealed chambers beyond.
Already, remarkable caches of records and artifacts have been
found. *Just after the Deluge, at the dawn of the present time cycle, an
era the Egyptians called ZEP TEPI, "The First Times", a mysterious group of
"gods" appeared, to initiate the survivors in the rudiments of 
civilization.
From Thoth and Osiris in Egypt, to Quetzacoatal and Viracocha
in the Americas, traditions worldwide subscribe the origins of contemporary
civilization to this sophisticated group*.
Despite the misleading popularity of Von Danikan journalism,
evidence from around the world, indicates these people were the hi-tech
survivors of the previous civilization. Like the nuclear survival bunkers
and secret research facilities of our own civilization, there were those
who arose from the underground "cities of the Gods", after the dust settled.
They were the "prediluvian patriarchs", like Enoch and Methuselah, the 
"giants
and heroes of old", mentioned in Genesis.
The enigmatic gods of ancient Summer, Egypt and India, all hail
from the fabulous times before the Flood. It is the legacy of a
civilization and a technology way beyond our own. A technology capable of
creating a vast
underground city, of which the sphinx and pyramids are merely the surface
markers.
The project scientist, Dr. Hurtak, likens it to the impact
of contact with an advanced extraterrestrial culture. He described it as the
discovery of the Fourth Root culture, the so-called Atlantean civilization,
destroyed by the last earth tumble. It presents unequivocal evidence that
all languages, cultures and religions trace back to a single common source,
which Dr. Hurtak refers to as the "Parent Civilization".
The technology unearthed is way beyond machine technology,
as we know it. As Arthur C. Clark once joked, "any technology beyond our own
would seem like magic to us." According to Dr. Hurtak, this was a culture
who cracked the genetic code and possessed the keys of the physical
spectrum, the "Higher Light Physics" of the ancients... everything old 
Gilgamesh in
his famous trek to the lost "City of the Gods" to search the tunnels
beneath "Mt. Mashu" in the desert lands.
Hurtak refers to a "language of light" and a great
priest-scientist of the previous time cycle, named ENOCH, who is associated
with the building of the Great Pyramid complex. Hurtak alludes to a grand
spiritual science, a science that describes a genetic stairway to the stars.
The priest-scientist ENOCH, is a prediluvian patriarch, one of the most
famous and seminal characters of the previous time cycle. Father of
Methuselah and great grandfather of Noah, Enoch is credited in the Bible as
architect of the original Zion, the legendary "City of Yahweh", as well as
inventor of the alphabet and calendar. Enoch is also history's first
astronaut, who "is taken aloft by the Lord" and shown "the secrets of earth
and heaven". He returns to earth with the "weights and measures" for all
mankind.
Known to the Egyptians as THOTH, the "Lord of Magic and
Time" and to the Greeks as HERMES, "messenger of the gods", he is even 
remembered
in the Celtic tradition as the enigmatic wizard Merlin, who disappears up
an apple tree to mythic Avalon, seeking the secret of immortality and vowing
to return. As one who attained immortality, the secret of how we "might 
become
as gods", Thoth/Enoch promises to return at the end of time "with the Keys
to
the gates of the sacred land."
In the controversial Dead Sea Scrolls, revealing the lost
Books
Of Enoch removed from the Bible by Enoch describes a wondrous civilization
in the past, who misused the keys of higher knowledge and were unable to 
save
themselves from the last cataclysm. Both literally and figuratively they
lost the "keys", they lost all higher knowledge. Yet, Enoch, along with many
traditions, even the Mayan legend of Quetzacoatal, promises a return of
this knowledge at "The end of time", the end of the present time cycle. 
Biblical
Revelations promise "all will be revealed" at the end of the present world.
The extraordinary discoveries in Egypt and other parts of
the world, describe not just an advanced technology but, evolutionary path
beyond our present state. Careful scientific examination of the world's key
pyramid sites, reveal them to be sophisticated harmonic structures, not only
mirroring positions of the planets and stellar systems but also, designed
to mimic the chakras and harmonic cavities of the human body. Even each 
stone
within the Great Pyramid is harmonically tuned to a specific frequency or
musical tone. The sarcophagus in the center of the Great Pyramid is tuned
to the frequency of the human heart beat.
Astonishing experiments, conducted by Dr. Hurtak 
and colleagues
at the Great Pyramid and other sites in the South Americas, demonstrate the
Pyramids to be voice-activated "geophysical computers." Intoning specific
ancient sounds, the scientific team produced visible standing waves of 
light,
above and within the pyramids and was even able to penetrate, hitherto,
inaccessible chambers. Subsequent discoveries indicate the ancient
priest-scientists employed some sort of harmonic sound technology within the
temple structures.
The lost Enochian knowledge reveals the mother tongue as a
"language of Light". Known to the ancients as HIBURU, it is the primal seed
language, introduced at the beginning of this time cycle. Modern research
confirms, the most ancient form Hebrew to be a natural language, the
alphabetic forms emerging from the phosphene(phosphate?) flare patterns of
the brain. The same shapes, in fact, born of a spinning vortex. It is a
true language of light, coursing through our very nervous system.
Encoding the natural waveform geometry of the physical world,
Hiburu is a harmonic language, mimicking the waveform properties of light.
The "keys" Enoch speaks of, turn out to be sound keys, keys to be vibratory
matrix of reality itself, the mythic "Power of the World". The Enochian
knowledge describes sonic equations, encoded within the ancient mantras and
god names, capable of directly affect the nervous system and producing
profound effect of healing and higher consciousness states.
As the ancient texts declare, "If you would speak with the
gods you must first learn the language of the gods." NA, the ancient
cabalistic "Tree Of Life" portrayed in the Biblical Torah, is now coming to
be viewed as a live vibrating structure, rather than a fixed tape recording.
Many modern scientists, regard DNA as a shimmering, waveform configuration,
able to be modified by light, radiation, magnetic fields or sonic pulses.
The legacy of Thoth/Enoch suggests this "language 
of Light",
the harmonic science of the ancients, could actually affect DNA. The
evidence in Egypt, indicates this was the grand 6,000 year genetic experiment
attempted by the Egyptians, the quest for immortality and the stars, a quest
described by the great ones of old, a quest initiated by Gilgamesh so very
long ago. The Egyptians were not fixated on the afterlife, as thought by
early Christian translators but, focussed on creating a higher type of
human. Along with many ancient cultures, they believed DNA came from the
stars and was destined to return.
The knowledge of Thoth/Enoch implies humans are meant to
evolve beyond our present terrestrial form, as the Bible tells us, "we may
become Greater than angels". The Egyptians record stories of the "Star
Walkers", occasional individuals who, like Enoch, traveled "beyond the Great
Eye of Orion" and returned, to walk like gods amongst men. Despite the
bleaching of semi-divine beings from modern consciousness, could it be
possible, as the ancient texts insist, we are destined to "become as gods"?
Are the Mayan "Lords of Light" and the Egyptian/Tibetan "Shining Ones"
really a higher form of human? According to many earth legends, such beings
are supposed to return regularly, at the beginning and end of each time cycle,
the 13,000 year half-point of our solar system's 26,000 year zodiacal orbit
around galaxy center. Because of conditions on our galactic orbit, these
13,000 year intervals or "worlds", seem to be separated by cataclysmic
upheaval.
According to the "calendar in stone" of the Great Pyramid,
which Describes the so-called "Phoenix Cycle" of our galactic orbit, the
present time period ends (converted to our present calendar) in the year 2012
AD. The Greek word PHOENIX, derived from the Egyptian word, PA-HANOK,
actually means, "The House of Enoch". The Enochian knowledge suggests,
these regular cataclysmic changes act as an evolutionary agent provocateur, to
quicken the resident life forms to the next evolutionary phase, prior to
exodus from the womb planet. Human evolution may proceed more rapidly than
previously thought. The evidence now appearing, records civilizations
beforeus, which mastered the physical continuum and progressed beyond this 
world.
There were also those who failed.
We, too, have equal opportunity to make it or break it. The
discoveries emerging from Egypt, describe the existence of a world wide
pyramid temple system in prehistory, mounted like antennae on the key energy
meridians, which were employed by ancient priest- scientists as a musical
system to stabilize the tectonic plates of the planet... cataclysmic geology
at it's finest. From the mother tongue word JEDAIAH, meaning "the way of
the Word" or "the power of the Word", the ancient JEDAI (is this where Lucas
got his inspiration for the Jedi knights?) priests used the language of Light
to tune the planet like a giant harmonic bell.
Much is being rediscovered in the last days of this time cycle.
In the words of Dr. Jay Franz, of the Omega Foundation, "even if we don't
dare to name it, there is a universal feeling of something impending on the
world stage."

End Part I