Spurious Giza 'Discoveries' Coming Fast and Furious from Niccole Ciccole Expedition Team

 
And .... another one! (Stacy Liberatore, 'Hidden tomb discovered by scientists investigating vast city beneath Giza pyramid' Daily Mail 30 March 2025

Italian researchers told DailyMail.com that they identified an unknown chamber under the Tomb [recte 'shaft'] of Osiris, which is believed to be a symbolic burial site dedicated to the Egyptian god of the afterlife. Last week, the team announced the discovery of wells and chambers more than 2,000 feet below the Khafre Pyramid. If confirmed, these findings could rewrite human history.[...] An image produced by the technology revealed the known levels within the Tomb of Osiris, descending 114 feet below the surface, along with a vertical shaft followed by three distinct steps. It also detected a previously unknown structure, which 'appears to reach an empty chamber' 656 feet below the surface. 'There is also a sarcophagus (?), which remains surrounded by running water,' said the team. [...] The work by Corrado Malanga of Italy's University of Pisa, Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, and Egyptologist Armando Mei has not yet been published in a scientific journal for independent expert review.

Researchers told DailyMail.com that they released the new image 'in response to concerns raised regarding the effectiveness' of the technology used to identify an 'entire world of structures' more than 4,000 feet beneath Khafre.

Niccole Ciccole, the project's spokesperson, said: 'This presents the tomographic analysis of the Tomb of Osiris—an interior structure that is extensively documented—demonstrating how satellite radar tomography has successfully replicated its features.

It would have helped evaluate the evidence if the "Khafre Research Project" had not overlain a large part of the scan with a downloaded picture from the German internet showing the three levels of this complex. They do this to (a) show how the fuzzy green bits of their scan if the picture is reduced down to the right scale 'sort of' match, and (b) to hide the green fuzzy bits with black blotches in the middle on the left hand side. We are not supposed to notice them. But they do not differ from what's on the right, and why aren't THESE black blotches not empty sarcophagi, eh?

Concentrating on the bits we do know, in the middle chamber, there are niches some of which contain just air, others massive empty sarcophagi. NONE of this is visible in the scan - even though this is one of the most distinctive features of the whole complex. The third, bottom, chamber much of the time is half-filled with water (this is the level of the water table)  - yet the Expedition Ciccole team reckon that in ancient times there were excavated a further four undiscovered levels below that, all underwater. That really is a bit unlikely. No notice is taken of teh fact that the third chamber's black-blotch-for-a-sarcophagus  shows it the size of an entire room in the levels above, yet we know this sarcophagus, it is of normal size. 

Absolutely no attention is given in this fluff piece that to the left of the fuzzy images suggested as the 'shaft of Osiris' is a bigger vertical sequence of fuzzy blotches that (by analogy) would be being interpreted as an even bigger and analogous structure if the team really believed this technique works. 

It seems to me what is in question is what this scan really shows, random noise, a bit of which just happens to look like the Shaft of Osiris? What is notable is there is no horizontal or vertical scale on the plot of the "features" - so how do the investigators know where those features are in real space? They are presented as floating colour blobs. Also one really would like to know what the scan looks like undernetah the overlaid image - let us see it without.

Surely, the best method to answer concerns/questions about the three-dimensional renders of shafts and chambers under the middle pyramid made from the scan results would be to run the results from the Shaft of Osiris through the SAME software to produce an accurate three-dimensional render to compare with (a) the original and (b) the depiction of the results under the pyramid. Why was this obvious step not taken?

Also it should be noted that in this article, the isometric (?) drawing of a complex tomb shown underneath the blobby image is NOT the complex in Giza, but one recently excavated near Luxor (!).

 Far from addressing "concerns raised regarding the effectiveness' of the technology used to represent features under the Khafre pyramid, or "demonstrating how satellite radar tomography has successfully replicated" the features of the Shaft of Osiris, this presentation raises more questions. But this feature is a discrete complex, so let us see the team publish in full the scans and full supporting data for discussion. Until they do, it looks to me very much like this is a deceptive partial presentation of random data intended to bolster the under-pyramid scan, which is increasingly looking like a pseudoscientific scam ,meant to attract attention (and possibly funding).