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Cave Complex Found Under Giza Pyramids

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The guy seems like a crackpot-if you look up his site its full of 'psychic workshops' and other mumbo-jumbo. But still...deep in my geeky heart I totally hope there's a huge cave complex under the pyramids full of traps and ancient artifacts.

They make for interesting reading in between highly logical activities such as javascript or python sessions. Somehow they can relax the brain, provided you read them like fiction and consider dividing any 'truths' by pi*pi to arrive at some remnants of possible unknown ancient events.

We explored the caves before the air became too thin to continue.

"Thin air"? Those must be some very high-altitude caves. How in the world does one encounter thin air underground?

But it sounds very Indiana Jones. Could be an interesting movie..

Maybe he is referring to the oxygen percentage. Thin meaning they could not go on without special breathing apparatus.

I wonder how far ancient Egyptians could have gotten without breathing apparatus? Or have the caves changed that much over time...

Good point, but I would guess that the caves ecosystems are in flux over time. Another comment said something about guano being an influence so if the number of bats back then was not near the number now then it is feasible that the Egyptians could have gone further without breathing tools. That and the part of the cave that the Egyptians went down might not have been the where the present day explorers are trying to go.

The article mentions colonies of bats. If the atmosphere in the caves is toxic, it's likely due to ammonia from bat guano:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano

This guy may be making this up or exaggerating claims, as others here suggest. But does it seem odd to anyone that Zahi Hawass can simply dismiss the claims outright with the bizarre statement that "There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We know everything about the plateau."

There is nothing left to be learned? Really?

As the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Hawass has turned Egyptology into a one-man show. If you watch any television coverage of a new discovery related to ancient Egypt, it's Hawass who gets the interview and Hawass who takes credit. Nowhere is there mention of the other people who work at the digs, do the research, or interpret the results.

Maybe Hawass gets so much attention because reporters are lazy and don't try to contact anyone else for an opinion (as opposed to Hawass insisting on being the only spokesperson.) But the real danger is that Hawass's domination of the field may be holding back other interpretations -- and insights.

Well I suppose most have been hoping, not for a complex of dirty caves under the general Gizeh plateau, but for a big room under the Sphinx. At least I have been. Then again, research in the summer of '9 and publication immediately on September? Sounds fishy, but is a bit logical, coming from the author of the Cygnus Mystery (knock-off theory based on the general ideas of Hancock & Bauval, themselves a bit stretching it).

Symbolist Egyptology still has a long way to go, and a lot of cuckoos to leave behind I guess. Even so, Hawass' attitude has become truely totalitarian, and reminds one of the late 19th century US Patent Office, or Royal Academy of Sciences: We know everything, whatcha gonna say to us?

PS: The Rostau isn't directed downwards.

Venomous spiders! Why would any scientist dare go in there!

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