Experts Dismiss Viral Report Claiming Hidden City Beneath Egypt's Pyramids
In ground-breaking research, a group of scientists earlier claimed to have discovered evidence of a second underground city beneath Egypt's Giza Plateau.
The history of the Pyramids, located in Egypt, still remains a mystery, notably for their construction. While the ancient Egyptians were in charge of building them, the exact methods, tools, and resources employed are still being researched and debated today. In a ground-breaking research, a group of scientists earlier claimed to have discovered evidence of a second underground city beneath Egypt's Giza Plateau, connecting the Khafre Pyramid to other surrounding sites. But now, top archaeologists have refuted the previous claims, calling it 'unscientific.'
As per a Daily Mail report, experts used Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) tomography to discover what they believe to be a huge subterranean complex connecting the Khafre, Khufu, and Menkaure pyramids, as well as the Great Sphinx.
Filippo Biondi, a radar expert at the University of Strathclyde, stated that these buildings are '90 per cent likely" to be connected. 'We firmly believe that the Giza structures are interconnected, reinforcing our view that the pyramids are merely the tip of the iceberg of a colossal underground infrastructural complex," Biondi earlier told CNN.
Also, the previous report claimed that the researchers had identified vertical shafts that went as far as 2,000 feet below the Khafre pyramid. According to them, the shafts could date back to a civilisation 38,000 years ago, considerably older than the pyramids, which were built around 4,500 years ago.
Egypt's pyramids are ancient masonry buildings designed primarily as tombs for pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. Over 130 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt, with many of them part of larger complexes. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built for Pharaoh Khufu, is the largest and most famous and was once the tallest man-made structure in the world.
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