NEW secrets have been revealed about what lies below Egypt’s pyramids after scientists said they found an ancient city buried there.
Researchers from Italy and Scotland claimed to have made the “groundbreaking” discovery after using SAR radar technology that revealed a sprawling hidden city underneath the Pyramids of Giza.
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“A vast underground city has been discovered beneath the pyramids,” the spokesperson for the project excitedly announced last week.
The city was discovered at a depth of 1200m below the pyramids.
But, at a press conference on March 15, Professor Corrado Malanga, who led the project, declared that there is “a whole world” of structures under the site, with even more secrets to be revealed.
He said: “Until yesterday, Egyptologists said there was nothing, that is is an empty mountain of stones, but there are a lot of things”.
It is believed that as well as a hidden city, they came across an ancient water system and possibly the ancient chamber of wisdom.
The Khafre Project team detailed how they found five structures likely connected to each other by corridors and that directly below this there are eight pillars.
Malanga explained that each of these “vertical wells” go 650 meters into the ground and appear to be “surrounded by a spiral staircase”.
Among the many paths and other structures that the researchers believe lie under once of the wonders of the world, the scientists focused on what looked like two rooms, both 80m on each side.
Four of the eight tubes or pillars that start near the base of the pyramid, go down into these two structures.
On the computer image the researchers made of their discovery, they added a graphic “that simulates a path of water because under a certain depth underneath the pyramid there is water”.
This potential water system could link to a discovery last year by a group of scientists who claimed they found an extinct waterway at the ancient site.
The group said that they solved the mystery of how construction materials were transported to the site of the pyramids via a now dried-up waterway coming off the Nile that ran through Giza.
In their report researchers stated: “Many of the pyramids, dating to the Old and Middle Kingdoms, have causeways that lead to the branch and terminate with Valley Temples which may have acted as river harbors along it in the past.
“We suggest that the Ahramat Branch [the now dried up river] played a role in the monuments’ construction and that it was simultaneously active and used as a transportation waterway for workmen and building materials to the pyramids’ sites.“
CHAMBER OF WISDOM
As the team behind the Khafre Project hope to carry out more research to reveal “what can only be described as a true underground city”, they have also suggested they may unravel the truth about long-told legends.
They suggested that “the Pyramid of Khafre might conceal undiscovered secrets, notably the fabled Hall of Records”.
This is the legend that below the Great Sphinx of Giza is a chamber of wisdom containing an ancient library of records and teachings from the ancient civilisation.
And with more unknown structures believed to be about 4,000 feet below the base of the pyramid, researchers claim they may have also discovered a connection to the Halls of Amenti.
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Project spokesperson Nicole Ciccolo said: “The existence of vast chambers beneath the earth’s surface, comparable in size to the pyramids themselves, which have a remarkably strong correlation between the legendary Halls of Amenti.
“These new archaeological findings could redefine our understanding of the sacred topography of ancient Egypt, providing spatial coordinates for previously unknown and unexplored subterranean structures.”
But independent radar experts have called the find into question.
Professor Lawrence Conyers who works at the University of Denver, specialising in radar and archaeology, told the Daily Mail that radar pulses could not possibly detect what is that far underground.
He called the claims that researchers found a vast city underneath the pyramids “a huge exaggeration”.
However, he said there may be smaller structures like shafts and chambers.
The Khafre Project team are reportedly keen to excavate the area to further explore what is below the pyramids, but securing approval from the authorities is incredibly tough.
The findings by Malanga, from Italy’s University of Pisa, and Filippo Biondi with the University of Strathclyde in Scotland are still waiting to be peer-reviewed by independent scientists.
But their research proves how much there is still to learn about the ancient site and civilisation that bring into question what we think we know.
Other recent discoveries include a Mystery ‘L-shape’ structure beneath the royal Giza cemetery and that skeletons hidden in Egyptian pyramids at Tombos were not those of highly respected and wealthy royalty but of “low status” workers.
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