Manu Seyfzadeh: Archaeologist Profile, Theories & Books

Physician and independent Egyptologist whose peer-reviewed research challenges the conventional attribution of the Great Pyramid to Khufu

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About Manu Seyfzadeh

Credentials: MD, physician; independent Egyptologist; published in Archaeological Discovery (peer-reviewed)

Iranian-American physician and independent Egyptologist who has published peer-reviewed research proposing significant revisions to conventional understandings of Old Kingdom Egyptian history. Seyfzadeh holds an MD and has combined his medical career with decades of intensive study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, architecture, and chronology. His most notable research, co-authored with Robert...

Notable Works

• The Inventory Stele: More Fact than Fiction (with R. Schoch) (2018)
• A New Interpretation of the Great Sphinx (with R. Schoch) (2019)
• World's First Known Written Word at Gobekli Tepe on T-Shaped Pillar 18 (2017)

Key Theories

• The Great Pyramid was likely built by Khufu's predecessor, not by Khufu himself — Seyfzadeh argues that the cartouches found in the relieving chambers above the King's Chamber — long cited as proof of K...
• The Great Sphinx dates to a period significantly earlier than the 4th Dynasty — Collaborating with Robert Schoch, Seyfzadeh has published research supporting a pre-dynastic origin for the Great Sphinx...
• A previously unrecognized hieroglyphic symbol at Gobekli Tepe represents one of the world's earliest known written words — In a 2017 paper, Seyfzadeh proposed that a symbol carved on Pillar 18 at Gobekli Tepe corresponds to the ancient Egyptia...

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