Ancient/Now – Hidden chambers below the Great Pyramid?

Has scan technology revealed massive hidden chambers below the Great Pyramids at Giza?

The social media world is agog for massive structures researchers claim to have found hidden beneath the Great Pyramids at Giza. Since the news began circulating online this month, it is all anyone has asked me about. No joke, I got a dozen phone calls and texts about it the morning it came out. The long and the short of it is: someone has discovered they can scan geological formations underground and that such formations are actually massive, like mountains and shit, and even geometric! Repetitive! Oh how anthropocentric (or alien-centric!) our discombobulated and decadent age is. Let us remind ourselves that cool rock formations can indeed happen without human interference because sometimes the earth does cool shit with magma, lava, fossils, and stone. The limestone formations of the Giza Plateau are a natural wonder. The Egyptians certainly thought so or they wouldn’t have sited their royal mountain-of-stone-pyramid burials there in the company of a really awesome and still super famous natural rock formation that looks like a lion, carved by ancient people to specify those natural features. None of that human intervention in this place means ancient peoples made the entire plateau. But some “researchers” think so, *sigh*. Maybe they just need a geologist on their team?

To learn more about this stunning discovery of awesome natural rock formations, I can do no better than refer you to the History of Ancient Egypt Podcast and Dominic Perry’s brilliant, to-the-point explanation as to why these claims (based on SAR data collected at Giza in 2022) should be seen for the clickbait that they are and not taken seriously.

For more on my thoughts about why the idea that aliens built the pyramids continues to captivate the popular imagination, check out the chapter on Khufu in my book The Good Kings. The pyramids were built to turn human rulers into supernatural beings capable of miracles, and those structures are still working on our simple human minds today, exactly as intended.

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