Going underground: Experts clash over 'hidden city' beneath Egypt pyramids
Title: Going underground: Experts clash over 'hidden city' beneath Egypt pyramids
Date of publication: March 26, 2025, 8:11am
Author: Anna Economou
Article Link: Going underground: Experts clash over 'hidden city' beneath Egypt pyramids | Euronews
Summary of article: Debate among Egyptologist has sparked after some Italian researches, led by Professor Corrado Malanga from the university of Pisa, are claiming that they have found an underground city by using radar imaging underneath the Pyramids of Giza. They believe "they've uncovered a vast underground network," consisting of massive vertical shafts containing spiral staircases, channels resembling pipelines for a supposed water system, as well as a "hidden world of structures more than 2000 feet beneath the surface." the researchers are even going as far to suggest that acclaimed Hall of Records, an ancient library in Egyptian lore, could lie beneath the pyramids.
But there is very clearly a divide in what experts are believing as not all Egyptologists are convinced. Radar expert, professor Lawrence Conyers from the University of Denver, stated that the Italian researchers claims are a "huge exaggeration." He went as far as to say that the "technology they used - radar pulses from a satellite... couldn't penetrate that deep into the earth." Lawrence, speaking to the Daily Mail, casted reasonable doubt on the Italian researchers supposed findings. He instead proposed the idea that the smaller structures beneath the pyramids could be due to the fact that "Mayans... often built pyramids on top of the entrances to caves or caverns that had ceremonial significance to them."
Another expert, Dr. Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist, stated that the researchers were "completely wrong," and that their so-called discovery completely lacks any scientific basis.
My thoughts: A lot of the so called evidence in this article is hard to believe, mainly because it majorly lacks authentic scientific proof. Personally, from what I can gather from this article and what the true experts are saying, I don't believe that these structures are anything more than cave systems, sacred or not. The fact that their main source of evidence is radar imaging is very damming, especially because expert Egyptologists have literally stated that it would be impossible for satellite radar to even begin to penetrate that deep.
I also don't buy the whole spiel about underground water systems, spiraling staircases, and an underground city, because all of their so called imaging evidence is mainly built off of hypothesization, not fact. The only true image of any kind of proof is the "Topography shown by radar shown at a press conference, later shared by spokesperson Nicole Ciccolo on Youtube," and it only shows really basic shapes, which are much more likely to be caves from the looks of things. There is no reason that they should have even spurred the idea of this spiraling stair case, as they have no scientific bases or reason to believe so in the first place.
Now, I'm no scientist or Egyptologist, but the fact that many experts are discounting these supposed findings speaks volumes. Where did they even get this idea from? it truly doesn't make any sense. I'm glad that I fully read the article and that I didn't just believe the genuinely click-bait title. It just goes to show that you cant believe everything you read on the internet.
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