Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery, seemingly uncovering a vast city hidden beneath Egypt’s Pyramids. Researchers from Italy and Scotland used radar to find the ancient city underground that’s 10 times bigger than the Great Pyramids of Giza.
The team, led by Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi from the University of Strathclyde, claim the city covers 6,500 feet. “This groundbreaking study has redefined the boundaries of satellite data analysis and archaeological exploration,” said the project’s spokesperson, Nicole Ciccolo. She said the discovery “could redefine our understanding of the sacred topography of ancient Egypt, providing spatial coordinates for previously unknown and unexplored subterranean structures”.
She added: “When we magnify the images [in the future], we will reveal that beneath it lies what can only be described as a true underground city.!
However, several experts are sceptical about these claims. Professor Lawrence Conyers called it a “huge exaggeration”, telling Daily Mail: “I could not tell if the technology used actually picked up hidden structures below the pyramid.”
He said that shafts and chambers are likely all there is under the pyramids, with the Mayans and other ancient Mesoamericans often building pyramids on top of the entrances of caves or caverns that had ceremonial meaning to them.
Egyptian archaeologist Dr Zahi Hawass also questioned the claims, calling them “completely wrong” and having “no basis in truth”.
The former minister of antiquities told Aawsat: “There are no missions working in King Khafre’s pyramid now. No radar devices or modern technologies have been used to detect alleged structures beneath the Khafre Pyramid.”
Dr. Hussein Abdel-Basir, director of the Antiquities Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, said the claims “fall within the realm of exaggeration and deception”.
He added that “any real scientific discovery in the field of archaeology must be published first in a reliable scientific journal after careful review by independent experts”.
Abdel-Basir pointed out that “geophysical techniques, such as Ground Penetrating Radar or seismic analysis, can scan limited depths, not exceeding tens of meters at best” meaning the so-called city “could not have been detected using such methods”.
