What is hidden underneath?
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A huge system of caves, chambers and tunnels is hidden
beneath the Pyramids of Giza, which could reveal the
lost
secrets of the pharaohs.
In Discovery News, Rossella Lorenzi quotes this week's
Dreamland guest
Andrew Collins as saying, "Ancient funerary texts
clearly allude to the existence of a subterranean world in the
vicinity of the Giza pyramids. Indeed, Giza was known
anciently as Rostau, meaning the "mouth of the passages.
This is the same name as a region of the ancient Egyptian
underworld known as the Duat. The 'mouth of the passages'
is unquestionably a reference to the entrance to a
subterranean cave world, one long rumored to exist beneath
the plateau."
Edgar Cayce talked about
secret
chambers underneath Egyptian artifacts and in his 1817
memoirs, British explorer Henry Salt writes about finding an
underground system of catacombs in Giza. This newly-
rediscovered cave system is guarded by poisonous bats and
spiders. Lorenzi quotes Collins as saying, "There is untouched
archaeology down there, as well as a delicate ecosystem
that includes colonies of bats and a species of spider which
we have tentatively identified as the white widow."
Not surprisingly, Egyptian Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass
says, "There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We
know everything about the plateau."
Secrets? We know secrets! But ours are
closer to home. Come
learn
some of them at our Skywatch in the California desert in
October. Magical things may happen!
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