Re:Ancient Egyptian town rediscovered
In about 1997 there were a few guys trying to raise the funds to go on an expedition in 2000. I dont know what ever came of that. I can assume from the lack of data that either they were not allowed to excavate (A gentleman who now owns half of Oak Island has cordoned it off to visitors), or they did not raise substancial funds. Shame really. One modern theorey about the "Money Pit" is that is actually a weapons cache, put their by 15th or 16th century pirates. I do not buy into this theorey in any way, it simply doesn't make sense. Why would pirates build a practically impenetrable underground weapons cache to store cannonballs. The whole theorey is based on the discovery of a solitary cannonball found in the pit. Surely it would make far more sense to say that it was built by pirates who hid their "loot" down there, and whilst building the defense mechanisms, the cannonball fell in and they did not, or perhaps could not retrieve it. Which still begs a few questions
(a) If pirates built the pit, how did they do it? The architectural knowledge it would have taken to build the two flood tunnels alone is far more than any pirate would have had.
(b) Why would they leave that engraved tablet down there? If of course its not a hoax.
(c) Why would they go to this much trouble to bury something they would clearly never be able to reclaim? Does the pit contain an artifact of sucg grandious importance, that the finder felt it should stay hidden forever? Or perhaps the builders felt that whatever is down their is cursed.
Perhaps your right, maybe it is just a self-perpetuating legend, but it always come back to one thing - why the hell is it there? It makes me think - "There must be something important or valuable down there, even if it isn't treasure or money. Surely someone with the fund wants to find out what." Maybe one day I will somehow aquire vast amounts of money and go there myself. I'd love to be the one to discover what's down there. Oh well, a guy can dream eh!
Btw - If anyone heres of any expeditions to Oak Island, or to remove that stone block in Khufu's pyramid, please post the link and/or some info. I am especially anxious to see what they find in the pyramid. I won't be holding my breath though.