Friday 07/November/2025 – 01:09 PM
When we stand in front of the pyramids or ancient temples and contemplate the greatness of what the ancient Egyptians accomplished, we must have a simple but profound question: Why do we not know their secrets? How did they build? How did they think? How did they know what we do not know today, despite all the tools and technology we have? Is it possible that this light would suddenly go out?
Some people believe, and I was one of them before delving into the research to write this article, that there is a time gap that severed the connection between us and them, and that we are not their descendants in the true sense, but rather just people who came after them and inhabited the land from which they left.
This idea carries some plausibility and reasonableness, because we have actually lost the language, customs, religion, and conscience that constituted the spirit of that civilization. We now live on the same land, but with a different mind and another tongue.
But if we look closely, we will find that science did not disappear suddenly, but rather eroded very slowly, as each new historical period tended to obscure what came before it.
The new kings sometimes erased the names of their predecessors from the walls to begin their own history, and it seems that this was an authentic Egyptian custom that continued, and with every change in religion or power, temples were demolished, schools of priests were closed, and knowledge that was not transmitted was lost.
For the ancient Egyptians, knowledge was sacred and was granted only to those who deserved it. They sanctified all types of knowledge: medicine, astronomy, engineering, and even what is known today as the esoteric sciences. This knowledge was a secret that was not made available to the general public.
It was restricted to the class of priests and the elite close to the ruler, and it was circulated only within the walls of temples.
Therefore, when a country was overthrown or a ruling family fell, its knowledge would disappear with it, because whoever carried it would either be killed, exiled, or lose his place and authority, and there would be no one after him to continue the path.
Thus, the secrets were lost when the chain was cut, and the language that held the keys fell, and the centuries accumulated as if they were a wall separating us from our past, but despite this, the impact of the ancestors did not disappear completely.
The genes that were found in ancient mummies are still present in us and this has been proven scientifically. Rather, more importantly, there is a hidden tendency within us that resembles them: respect for the craft, a passion for immortality, and the belief that man can defy death with action and creativity. We need to awaken other important tendencies such as love of order and reverence for science.
What happened is that knowledge was lost when the frequency stopped, and when the awareness that carries it disappeared, because knowledge is not inherited by blood, but rather transmitted by the mind and memory, and when the language died, the key died, and the door remained closed for thousands of years until the French scientist Champollion came to decipher it.
But the deeper question is not why the secrets were lost, but rather why do we not try to reconnect them? We may not have temples or papyri that guide us accurately, but we have the same awareness, the same curiosity for the question, and the desire to understand what is behind the apparent. Our ancestors did not disappear as we think.
They are there, in the silence of the stone, and in the light of the Nile from which we all drank, and the same blood flowed through us, and in that astonishment that strikes us whenever we stand in front of a monument whose secret we do not understand.
We are not completely strangers to them, but rather we are a new wave on the same old river, trying to remember what the light was like when it was seen.
Is it time for us to continue their journey according to the standards of our time, or will we just continue to live on their old glories?
