[johnnycap]

Edgar Cayce and others have alluded to predictions that around this time, we would be finding a wealth of knowledge stored in a cavity beneath the pyramids and the sphinx.

[Adder]

Use of the word “clearly” should raise the bs meter needle a few notches.

So are they caves really there or not?

Or is it “unclear”?

kuhl if tru.

[Tijeras_Slim]

And these colonies of bats emerge when and from where?

[allmost]

Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has dismissed the discovery.

He reminds me of baghdad bob sometimes.
"No slaves were used to build the pyramids"
"There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We know everything about the plateau,"

[Hegemony Cricket]

Ping

[NavyCanDo]

Indiana Jones song playing in my head. Anyone else?

[NorwegianViking]

Very interesting that the “main man” in Egypt said that this was nothing. Makes me wonder if he is wanting to hide something.

[edweena]

I see you’ve already done some checking and found the story is pretty dubious. Before I got to your background post, this made me suspicious.

“’We explored the caves before the air became too thin to continue. They are highly dangerous, with unseen pits and hollows, colonies of bats and venomous spiders,’ said Collins.”

I’ve never heard of air getting thin in caves. If a chamber were sealed it would be possible to use up the oxygen, but supposedly they are exploring through openings to areas where bats and spiders live. I guess there could also be areas where heavy gases from vents to underground hot springs or volcanic vents had replaced oxygen, but that doesn’t sound like Egypt.

Too bad. It would have been very cool.

[Tainan]

I do not see anything, so far, to immediately discredit this gentlemans supposed findings.

'Air becoming thin' is a completely understandable 'British' term for bad air in a cave. Many caves have unbreathable air in lower levels. This causes gasping when trying to breathe. 'Thin air' is a good laymans' description for this situation.

[Condor51]

The Pyramids of Giza are a place I'd love to see.
Ever since I saw my 1st pack of Camels^©, I thought boy that place is neat.

Don't know how long I could handle the heat though. 130^oF is not my idea of fun. (yeah, I know. It's a 'dry heat')/s

[jdub]

If there are colonies of bats, I cannot believe that this cave has gone undetected. Someone would have seen their daily ingress/egress.

[chit*chat]

This was discussed on Coast to Coast on July 22. Here is a bit of the write up on the part of the show relevant to this thread:

Atlantis, Cayce, & Artifacts Date:07-22-09 Host:George Noory Guests:Gregory Little

Expert on the American prophet Edgar Cayce, Greg Little discussed new discoveries in the search for Atlantis, mounds in ancient America, as well as findings in Egypt.

He related the research of British science writer Andrew Collins who found an opening into a cave complex that extends underneath Giza, Egypt. Collins has concluded that the pyramids on the Giza Plateau correlate to the constellation Cygnus, rather than Orion, as other researchers have claimed.

[chit*chat]

PS - Little & his wife first explored the caves on their own, eventually informing Hawass, who admitted that the caves were unknown to him.

I hope he will share the information in the future. It sounds like they are vast and it will take years to explore, catalog and present to the public. In the meantime I'm sure he wants to keep prying eyes away from the site. cc

[editor-surveyor]

"According to Collins, the caves -- which are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years old..."

They can't seem to write about anything without injecting this kind of nonsense to make the rest of the article less credible.