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A new study on the Egyptian pyramids has caused a stir worldwide, after researchers from Italy and Scotland claimed that there is a “huge underground city” extending over 6,500 feet beneath Giza pyramids – ten times larger than the pyramids themselves. This claim is based on the use of pulse radar devices by experts to create high-resolution images deep underground beneath the structures, in the same way that sonar radar is used to map the depths of the oceans. The study, which has not been reviewed by independent experts, revealed the presence of eight vertical cylindrical structures extending over 2,100 feet beneath the pyramid, in addition to additional unknown structures at a depth of 4,000 feet. A press release described the findings as “groundbreaking,” and if proven true, could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt.The so-called Khafre Project that generated these results used Synthetic Aperture Radar tomography to scan the Khafre Pyramid using remote sensing information from commercial satellites. The group involved scientists:
Corrado Malanga (formerly?) of the University of Pisa, esoteric author* and UFOlogist [here and here];
Filippo Biondi [LinkdIn] (formerly of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland), now (CEO?) of the company HarmonicSAR;
This is the actual 10-page press release so many of the pseudoarchaeologists were unable to find: https://readmultiplex.com/MagazinePDFs/ReadMultiplex-comGizaFindings.pdf. Most of it is based around some colourful images, looking very 'technical', though the sans are clearly only a selection of the "evidence" on which the complex reconstruction was based (and we need to see the rest to judge how well they support the claims) and they are not properly labelled or presented to show what the selected examples are scans 'of'. The reconstruction seems to be a totally independently AI generated image with no dimensions indicated, still less what part of which scans its component parts were 'read'. There is no attempt to explain how one goes from the scans to the reconstructed block-diagram - or even whether the latter is intended to be to scale (nor what the colour coding means). Just a 100% total mess and explains absolutely zero.
- The first thing that comes to mind is the enormous weight of the Pyramids, and one asks oneself, if anyone of sound mind would first dig out massive cavities below the site where they are going to build this thing?
- Second question, although they don't give much in the way of dimensions, the volume of limestone chips and fragments that would have had to be quarried out to cut such chambers is massive. So where are the dumps of this material, and why have they never been found?
- Thirdly, not very far away from the place where these shafts are supposed to be (and under the Khafre causeway) is the so-called Tomb of Osiris (Shaft of Osiris), the lower level of which is water-filled due to the proximity of the water table to the ground surface here. So how did they dig such massive cavities so much deeper beyond that water level?
"independent experts have raised serious concerns about the study [...] Egyptologist and former Director General of the Giza Pyramids Area, Hussein Abdel-Basir, stated that this study lacks the most basic standards of proper scientific research. He added that any genuine scientific discovery in the field of archaeology must first be published in a reliable scientific journal after careful peer review. Abdel-Basir continued, “What happened here was merely a press conference and press release, without a scientific paper published in any respectable journal, and without an official announcement from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities or the Supreme Council of Antiquities.” He said that geophysical techniques such as GPRs or seismic analysis can only survey limited depths, not exceeding tens of meters in the best of circumstances. The claim of the existence of huge structures at a depth of 2,000 feet (600 meters) is science fiction and not based on any reality, Abdel-Basir stressed. He also noted that one of the people making this claim, Corrado Malanga, is a well-known researcher in unidentified flying objects and has previously appeared on programs about aliens. Abdel-Basir added, “When this approach is introduced into archaeological research, it transforms from scientific research into the promotion of conspiracy theories and populism that do not serve the truth.”
Further, the Khafre Project does not appear to exist beyond a YouTube channel of a woman named Nicole Ciccolo, who posts frequent unsubstantiated theories about the pyramids. We could find no website or further information about the organization.
In a video posted on Feb. 7, 2025 , Ciccolo claimed an event would be happening at the Hotel Castello Artemide Congressi in Bologna, Italy, on March 15, 2025, where the Khafre Project would reveal their recent discoveries and share a press release following the event.
The details of that event, such as how many people or who attended, were unknown. The press release was not publicly available. However, a Facebook post (archived) claimed to share the main points of a presentation that allegedly took place at the event, and, on March 23, 2025, Ciccolo posted a video [now deleted PMB] of researchers supposedly discussing their findings there.
Advertisements for the event on Facebook (archived) and a website for Archeoares, an Italian museum group, claimed the event sold out. While the social media pages for Archeoares share frequent photos of their events, none from the purported Khafre Project conference were publicly available.
All very odd for such a high profile event. One really wonders how well Dr ***'s f HarmonicSAR firm is doing. Is this not a promotional stunt to generate business interest in what it has to offer (something the company's rather 1990s website fails to do) Snopes concludes "there is no evidence to support the existence of "five identical structures near the Khafre Pyramid's base, linked by pathways, and eight deep vertical wells descending 648 meters underground"." The group should provide fuller evidence of their claim.
*including a pyramid book Cheope - La fabbrica dell'immortalità: La vera storia di chi eravam
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