Posted on 06/18/2025 8:04:30 AM PDT by jcon40
Blah, blah, blah, just more click bait.
A different article on the same story:
https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1932405742709129625
Owen Gregorian@OwenGregorian
EXCLUSIVE: Scientists uncover SECOND ‘hidden city’ beneath Egypt’s Giza pyramids in discovery that rewrites history | Stacy Liberatore, Daily Mail
Scientists who revealed an underground ‘hidden city’ in Egypt have announced the discovery of a second city they say ‘proves’ the existence of a massive subterranean complex linking the Giza pyramids 2,000 feet beneath the surface.
The newly-discovered shafts and chambers could rewrite history if confirmed to be true.
The team of Italian researchers first claimed to have uncovered vast underground structures below the Khafre pyramid in March, igniting fierce backlash from mainstream archaeologists who called the findings ‘false’ and lacking scientific basis.
Famed archaeologist Dr Zahi Hawass is the team’s biggest critic, saying it is impossible for the ground-penetrating radar to see thousands of feet below the surface.
Undeterred by the scrutiny, the team has now reportedly detected similar shafts beneath the Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three main pyramids at Giza, months after their initial findings below Khafre.
The Giza complex, west of Cairo, includes the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, along with the Great Sphinx. All shrouded in mystery due to their unclear construction methods, precise astronomical alignment, and still-debated purpose.
Filippo Biondi, a radar expert from University of Strathclyde in Scotland and co-author of the research, told the Daily Mail that their data shows a 90 percent probability that the Menkaure shares the same pillars as Khafre.
The team arrived at the probability ‘through objective analysis of the tomography data, which, as experimental measurements, strongly indicate that the structures we identified beneath Khafre are also present under Menkaure.’
‘We firmly believe that the Giza structures are interconnected, reinforcing our view that the pyramids are merely the tip of the iceberg of a colossal underground infrastructural complex,’ Biondi said.
‘This network likely consists of a dense system of tunnels linking the main subterranean structures.’
The controversial research, not yet peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal, captivated the world when it was revealed, even mesmerizing podcast star Joe Rogan who called it ‘fascinating.’
However, famed archaeologist Dr Zahi Hawass deemed the discovery ‘bulls***’ due to his scientists saying it is not possible for the technology to see that deep in the ground.
While the Italian researchers’ findings have yet to be proven, or disproven, the team is still moving forward with their work.
Images of the pillars below Menkaure appear to be identical to those beneath Khafre, Biondi said.
‘The measurements reveal pillar-like structures with consistent characteristics,’ he added.
‘Given that Menkaure is smaller than Khafre, we believe the number of pillars is likely even but fewer than those under Khafre.’
Those under Khafre were estimated to measure more than 2,000 feet long and feature what looked like spiral-like structures wrapping around each of the eight.
The pillars beneath Menkaure further support the team’s theory that a ‘megastucture’ sits below the sands of the Giza plateau.
When asked about the purpose of the hidden structures, Biondi said: ‘At this stage, we’re still gathering information to thoroughly study the matter, but we can confidently say that the operation of this structure likely involves the natural elements: air, water, fire and earth.
‘Discoveries like these under Menkaure challenge us to rethink our understanding of ancient Egyptian history and humanity’s past, opening new perspectives on our origins and capabilities.’
Biondi and his team proposed that the structures were built by a lost ancient civilization around 38,000 years old.
However, archaeologists have estimated the three pyramids to be only around 4,500 years old.
The Italian researchers’ timeline is based on a theory that a highly advanced prehistoric society was wiped out by a global cataclysm, possibly caused by a comet impact, around 12,800 years ago.
According to this theory, the resulting floods and chaos erased most traces of this civilization, whose survivors passed down knowledge of astronomy, engineering, and sacred architecture to later cultures, including the ancient Egyptians.
Dr James Kennett, a geologist at the University of California Santa Barbara and a major proponent of the comet-impact hypothesis, told the Daily Mail that a highly advanced Stone Age culture in North America — the Clovis people — mysteriously vanished at the same time the comet is believed to have struck Earth.
‘There is evidence of a major population decline in North America beginning at 12,800 years ago,’ he said.
‘That lasted a few hundred years, and then they started to come back — but as a different culture.’
While Kennett can’t confirm the same impact effects occurred in Egypt, he points to impact evidence found at Abu Hureyra in Syria, which is around 1,000 miles from Giza, as compelling.
If debris struck that region, he said, it could have triggered massive flooding from the Mediterranean Sea and Nile River, potentially engulfing parts of ancient Egypt.
The flood narrative echoes surprisingly well with ancient Egyptian mythology.
Andrew Collins, a researcher of prehistoric civilizations, notes that hieroglyphs on the walls of the Temple of Edfu — some 780 miles south of Giza — reference a devastating flood that wiped out a mysterious civilization referred to as the ‘Eldest Ones.’
According to Collins, the temple’s inscriptions (known as the Edfu Building Texts) describe a ‘sacred domain’ in the Giza region that was destroyed by an ‘enemy serpent’ plunging the world into darkness and submerging the land under a great flood.
Collins believes the enemy serpent could be a metaphor for a comet due to ancient cultures using the creature to symbolize celestial events.
The serpent in the Edfu Texts is described as a destructive force disrupting the primeval island, sometimes linked to a ‘Great Leap’ or a sudden, chaotic event like.
‘[The text describes] them storing sacred objects in an underground structure called the Underworld of the Soul,’ Collins told the Daily Mail.
‘This I am sure relates to Giza’s cave system and any structures it may contain.’
Though Collins’ interpretations are widely rejected by mainstream Egyptologists, he argues that the mythical ‘Island of Creation’ mentioned in the texts may symbolize a long-lost civilization at Giza, a sacred homeland destroyed in a cataclysm and later memorialized in myth.
However, mainstream scholars counter that the Edfu inscriptions are symbolic and that there’s no direct reference to Giza itself.
“...The group dates the complex to 38,000 years ago...”
Gee, older than Goekle Tepe?
The Egyptians will never let this be investigated. Never.
Many people who visit Egypt for the first time look at the pyramids and then look at the current residents of Cairo and laugh and say “there is no way their ancestors built those”.
The counter argument is called the theory of devolution.
Lol.
There is evidence of great floods going back a long time. It makes sense as the ice age ended it would have released a lot of water. As things warmed up…that drip, drip, drip would turn into a torrent.
Did that flood out the alien power plants in Egypt? Why not? LOL
Point of interest - the same Andrew Collins wrote a book called Beneath the Pyramids. Which of course sounds really interesting. But what it is really about is Collins and his wife found a tunnel at Giza; they promptly set out to explore. Collins has absolutely no knowledge of caves or tunnels and what might be found in them.
One would image some sort of preparation for some thing like that - but no, they just walked in, wearing their day clothes - I forget if they brought a picnic basket.
Naturally they were startled to find nasty looking spiders and lots of bats - lots and lots of them. One of the daring duo brought some handkerchiefs which they used to cover their faces, while giving no thought at all about whether the oxygen levels were safe.
They got a ways in and the tunnel seemed to be going toward the pyramid complex, when they saw the tunnel branching. It was at that point they were both nearly overcome from the bat fumes and turned back.
Did Collins then plan a real exploratory exposition? Nope. He ran straight to Zahi Hawass, the biggest impediment to discovering anything new about the complex, since Herodotus in 550BC.
What did Hawass do? He kicked them out of his office and had the tunnel sealed. End of Collins’ book and end of this story.
“Over 30,000 years old, before the Diluvian Flood of mythological and Biblical lore.”
Every culture has their flood stories. Could be related to the Younger Dryas flood.
I think Gobekli Tepe is older than they say it is. In fact I don’t think it was covered up by human hands, I think it is possible that the Deluge covered it up.
Yes the end of the ice age may have had a lot to do with it. Did it end slowly or suddenly and catastrophically? Or something in between? It would have been around 12,000 years ago abouts.
Rock the casbah!
Colonizers! Bulldoze them!
I guess the jury it out on that place... for now
The King in Yellow.
The Krell
Yeah, they are dinking around about digging it up. They are milking it for funds and not getting much done at all.
Once ‘academia’ gets involved, you can write it off!
Stygia
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