Beneath the Pyramids: Exploring Egypt's Underground for the First Time
BRITISH WRITER DISCOVERS THE PHARAOHS’ LOST UNDERGROUND
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
A British writer has staked claim to finally finding the lost underground of the Pharaohs which has been rumoured to exist since the construction of the Great Pyramid nearly 5,000 years ago, creating a stir that is set to rock the Egyptological world.
Armed only with the forgotten memoirs of a nineteenth century British engineer, history and science writer Andre Coolings, tracked down the entrance to this forgotten tunnel system and was the first to explore it in modern times.
Is it possible that Coolings has beaten the Egyptologists at their own game by finding the entrance to Giza’s lost underground?
Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities has been quick to dismiss the discovery: “There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza”, he stated. “We know everything about the platform - amateurs cannot find anything new.” Yet Coolings is confident that his discovery is genuine: “We have consulted the TFL in London, the MTA New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and have found no mention of the tube in modern times."
Coolings says that since the tunnels are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years old, they may have influenced the development not only of the famous pyramid field but also ancient Egyptian beliefs in an underground where the soul achieves resurrection before ascending to the stars. “Ancient funerary texts clearly allude to the existence of a subterranean world in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids, calling it variously the Underground of the Soul and the Subway.” He said. “Hopefully, the existence of the caves will help us understand the earliest human activity on the platform.”
The full story of the discovery of Egypt’s lost underground is revealed in Coolings’s new book Beneath the Pyramids.
From the same 'Egypt's Greatest Secret Uncovered' series: "How to Construct Your Very Own Pyramidiot Theory" and "RoboScarab: The Next Generation of Robot Pyramid Explorers".
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So was this underground powered by alien anti-gravity technology, or is it true that the train was pulled by Hebrew slaves? I have heard of the theories by Henriette Splatvasky that the underground was powered by crystals and fairy dust, but I remain skeptical.
I mean, fairy dust? This far south during the Really Really Totally Old Kingdom Period? I think not. Everyone knows fairy dust didn't appear in Africa prior to Alexander.
fnord, I say!
From the latest press release of the publisher: "Collins shows that while the tomb itself is only 100 feet or so long (i.e. 35 meters as Hawass related) what Hawass didn’t realize is that a natural cave system extends for many hundreds of yards into the bedrock, and is entered through an obscure opening located in the far reaches of the tomb."
Did anybody actually read the book?!
This, from Archaeology Daily:
Dr Hawass, Secretary General for Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has now confirmed that he has ordered an all-Egyptian team to explore the tomb at the centre of the controversy.
"We are clearing this system now, and it is a Late Period catacomb, like many others around Egypt," he stated this week. "There is no mystery about it, and there is no connection with esoteric topics. We will publish our results as part of our normal process."
While applauding Dr Hawass's new interest in the site, Collins remains sceptical of his motives. "We knew in August that he had started clearing the tomb," he said. "The excavations began almost immediately after knowledge of the cave discovery hit the internet."
Collins is also unconvinced by Hawass's explanation of what he calls the "catacomb". "Does his use of the term 'system' now suggest that he has found and entered the caves, which he previously denied even existed? he asks. "My colleagues and I have examined photographic evidence of dynastic catacombs throughout Egypt, and these all appear to be carved by human hands.
"Those at Giza are natural, and penetrate the bedrock for many hundreds of metres, perhaps following the course of local geological faulting."
Although Dr Hawass suggests there is no mystery surrounding the "catacomb", Collins suspects that the caves extend beneath the Second Pyramid, where ancient tradition puts the legendary tomb of Tomb of Hermes, Egypt's legendary founder.
Thanks for the update, Sean. I do think that the quest for lost Atlantis libraries and great underworlds is still on! ;)
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